Facebook pushes new rules for political advertising worldwide

Facebook is ramping up its new tightened restrictions on political advertising. 
About a year after the company first introduced its tools to increase "transparency" around political ads in the U.S., Facebook is expanding those rules worldwide.
According to the new policy, advertisers that buy ads related to elections or other political "issues" need to verify their identity with Facebook and disclose who paid for the ad. These ads, and the identity of their purchasers, are then preserved i