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FACEBOOK plans to use US mail to verify IDs of Election and Buyers.

WASHINGTON : Facebook Inc will start using postcards sent by US mail later this year to verify the identities and locations of people who want to-

Purchase US election-related advertising on the site, a senior company executive said on Saturday.

The postcard verification is Facebook's latest effort to respond to criticism from lawmakers, security experts and election integrity watchdog groups that it and other social media companies failed to detect and later responded slowly to -

Russia's use of their platforms to spread divisive political content, including disinformation, during the 2016 US presidential elections.

Facebook revealed the plans a day after US Special Counsel Robert Mueller unsealed an indictment of accusing 13 Russians and three Russian companies of conducting a criminal and espionage conspiracy using -

Social media to interfere in the election by boosting Republican Donald Trump and denigrating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

The process of using postcards containing a specific code will be required for advertising that mentions a specific candidate running for a federal office, Katie Harbath, Facebook's global director of policy programs, said.

The requirement will not apply to issue-based political ads, she said.

''If you run an ad mentioning a candidate, we are going to mail you a postcard and you will have to use that code to prove you are in the United States,'' Harbath said.

[Reuters].