Facebook will ban US political ads indefinitely after election

Why not now? This seems like a load of nothing. I bet in 3 years that “indefinitely” will have ended and the political ads will be back.

Facebook’s original post makes it sound like the ban will be for days or weeks after the election (while results are being tabulated and maybe while a change in control is occurring). From https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/preparing-for-election-day... :

> In addition, while ads are an important way to express voice, we plan to temporarily stop running all social issue, electoral or political ads in the US after the polls close on November 3, to reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse. We will notify advertisers when this policy is lifted.

Surely it makes little difference after the election... Who is going to be buying political ads? The good thing to do now would be to cancel all the existing political ad campaigns, and let us all get on with voting without constantly being nudged.

Wonder if this is because the concern of a delay for counting the results? I wonder if true it might take days or even weeks to find out who won... so I could see suspending it while waiting for results. This is surely an election and year for the history books. Kinda been feeling like I‘ve been living in some movie this year.

This seems about as useful as a man promising to not cheat on his wife after the divorce.