Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, November 2nd.

Today on Forbes, Facebook took more than $1 million for ads sewing election lies.

Just six days before the 2024 presidential election, Facebook was running hundreds of ads from pages that falsely claim that the upcoming election may be rigged or postponed.

Facebook parent company Meta's ad library shows that the pages behind the ads have paid the company more than $1 million to run them.

They racked up a bill of more than $350,000 for ads run in just the past week.

The ads were live as of Wednesday.

One of the ads features a stylized image of Vice President Kamala Harris with devil horns

and an American flag burning behind her.

Other ads feature images of Harris and VP candidate Tim Walls interposed with post-apocalyptic

scenes and pictures of Walls and President Biden mashed up with images of prescription drugs

spilling out of bottles. One features an apparently AI-generated image of a smiling Harris

in a hospital room preparing to give a screaming child an injection.

Another features images of anti-vaxxer and third-party candidate RFK Jr.

Some of the ads question whether Harris will remain in the race and suggests that America

is, quote, headed for another civil war.

Mehta's election rules prohibit posts containing, quote, headed for another civil war. Meta's election rules prohibit posts containing, quote, misinformation about the dates,

locations, times, and methods of voting, and, quote, misinformation about whether a candidate

is running or not.

And its ad rules prohibit ads that, quote, call into question the legitimacy of an upcoming

or ongoing election.

Many of the ads direct viewers to a page where they can purchase writings by Jim Rickards,

a fringe economist turned conspiracy theorist and proponent of the New World Order conspiracy

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