Nick Clegg, the Vice President of Facebook, informed the withdrawal of 120,000 posts and 2.2 million ads from the social media platform and its subsidiary service Instagram on Sunday.

In an interview published by French weekly Journal du Dimanche, Clegg highlighted the measures Facebook has been taking to avoid the propagation of false information and propaganda. As per the interview, the posts were taken down as they attempted to “obstruct voting” in the US presidential election.

“In addition, warnings were posted on 150 million examples of false information posted online,” Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister, said.

This move by Facebook is a consequence of the allegations it has faced over rigging the 2016 US elections via voter manipulation and fundraising in association with Russia and Britain’s 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union.

The Trump campaign raised about $250 million in online fundraising with the help of Facebook, reported Wired.

Donald Trump’s digital director Brad Parscale in an interview with the Wired admitted that 3,000 Facebook ads were purchased by a Russian agency during the campaign.

Facebook and Twitter were the reason we won this thing. Twitter for Mr. Trump. And Facebook for fundraising,” he said.

In its efforts to avoid any repeat of events leading up to the 2016 US election, that Donald Trump eventually won, Facebook has thirty-five thousand employees taking care of the security of our platforms and contribute to elections, Clegg said.

“We have established partnerships with 70 specialised media, including five in France, on the verification of information,” he was quoted as saying in the newspaper.

The Vice President said that the technology giant uses artificial intelligence which has “made it possible to delete billions of posts and fake accounts, even before they are reported by users.”

“To ensure transparency, Facebook stores all advertisements and information on their funding and provenance for seven years,” Nick Clegg added.

In 2016, while he was still deputy prime minister, Clegg complained to the Journal du Dimanche that Facebook had not identified or suppressed a single foreign network interfering in the US election.

On Wednesday, Republican candidate Donald Trump criticized Facebook and Twitter for blocking links to the New York Post article claiming Joe Biden’s collusion with Ukraine via the latter’s son, Hunter.