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Facebook begins verification for India political ads

Indian advertisers seeking to run political ads on Facebook must now confirm their identity, location and reveal who paid for the ad, says Facebook

1 min read6 Dec 2018
Technology

Facebook, Google tools reveal political ad removal data

Facebook Inc. and Google, owned by Alphabet Inc., introduced the databases this year to give details on some political ads bought on their services

2 min read7 Nov 2018
Companies

Inside Facebook’s election ‘war room’

The War Room's half-finished state shows how nascent and hurried many of Facebook efforts are to curb fake news in the upcoming US mid-term elections

5 min read20 Sep 2018
Industry

Facebook retools political advertising rules after media blowback

Facebook's announcement comes as the Federal Election Commission is poised to conduct two days of hearings on proposed rules for online advertising disclosures

3 min read27 Jun 2018
Industry

Facebook vows more transparency over political ads

Facbeook users also will be able to see all of the ads paid for by the advertisers, whether or not those ads were originally targeted toward them

4 min read28 Oct 2017
Technology

Facebook to give Russia-linked ads to US Congress today

Facebook plans to turn over to the US Congress copies of some 3,000 ads that were bought on social media likely by people in Russia in the months before and after the 2016 US election

1 min read2 Oct 2017

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