evidence: As a society, we are still dealing with the fallout from these revelations and trying to determine what kind of controls, if any, should be placed on social media platforms when it comes to political advertising. The debate was reignited in November 2019, when Facebook refused to take down a misleading anti-Biden ad released by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. As the 2020 election draws closer, we need to take a look at the policies that social media platforms are implementing for political ads, and what the implications are for our democratic process. [...] The same doesn’t hold true for someone running for political office who runs an ad making false claims about their opponent. Why? Because political ads are considered political speech, and First Amendment law protects political speech above all other types of speech. The government has more leeway to penalize or censor commercial speech, but it has very little authority to regulate political ads. The rationale behind this is that voters have a right to uncensored information from candidates, which they can then evaluate themselves before making their decisions at the ballot box. [...] In October 2019, President Trump’s reelection campaign released a 30-second video ad accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of promising Ukraine funds for firing a prosecutor investigating a company with ties to Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The Biden campaign objected to this ad and asked various media outlets and platforms to take it down. The responses to this request have shed light on the different approaches that companies are taking to misinformation in political advertisements.