- Social media platforms including Meta's Facebook and Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Google's YouTube are readying themselves for another heated midterm Election Day.While ads submitted before the blackout period can still run, political advertisers have expressed frustration about the policy since it's often helpful to respond to last-minute attacks and polling with fresh messaging.Facebook already has extra screening for those who sign up as political advertisers and maintains information about political ads in a database available to the public.The researchers also did not go through Facebook's authorization process, which is supposed to provide extra scrutiny for political advertisers.TikTok did not provide a comment on the report but told the researchers in a statement that it values "feedback from NGOs, academics, and other experts which helps us continually strengthen our processes and policies.""