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The new measure comes just months ahead of the November U.S. presidential election. Under the measure, Facebook will not use the label for media outlets affiliated with individual political figures or parties, which Gleicher said could push “boundaries that are very, very slippery.†“What we want to do here is start with the most critical case,†he said. Facebook is not the first company to take such action. YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google, in 2018 started identifying video channels that predominantly carry news items and are funded by governments. But critics charge YouTube has failed to label some state...