In 2020, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated hundreds of millions to support election integrity efforts. The billionaire couple does not appear to have continued their giving this cycle.

Just six days before the 2024 presidential election, Facebook is 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.

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 Walz interposed with post-apocalyptic scenes, and pictures of Walz 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........

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