Dr. Monika Bickert:

Any account run under a false name or inauthentically violates our policies and should come down. We also have a mechanism for sending to third-party independent fact checker organisations, certified by the Poynter Institute, information that is likely to be false. They can rate that themselves. We also have tools and user reporting systems that will send information to them. If those fact checking organisations rate something as false, we put that information next to the information that is being seen and we do not run the advertisements. If something is directly from a politician and if the politician refers to something such as a link or an image that has already been debunked by a third party fact checker, the advertisement will not run. However, if the politician himself or herself is engaging in direct speech, he or she is held to our advertisement standards but we do not police whether the information is true. We do not believe we are the right entity to do this and we do not believe it is something we could do to the satisfaction of all involved.