Facebook to provide data on targeted political ads to researchers
- 26-Jan-2021
Facebook Inc said on Monday it would provide academic researchers information on how political ads were targeted in the lead-up to the presidential election in US
Facebook closes political ads loophole ahead of US presidential election
- 17-Jun-2020
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would affix labels to political ads shared by users on their own feeds
Facebook allows political candidates to run sponsored content
- 15-Feb-2020
Political campaigns and groups can now use the social media company’s branded content tool, which allows influencers to more clearly tag in an official sub-header that the post is a paid partnership
Spotify to suspend political advertising in 2020
- 28-Dec-2019
Spotify Technology said on Friday it would pause selling political advertisements on its music streaming platform in early 2020
Twitter to ban political ads worldwide on its platform
- 31-Oct-2019
The new policy will be enforced from November 22.
TikTok bans paid political ads
- 04-Oct-2019
TikTok hit the 500 million mark in monthly active users globally, according to a report in July by the South China Morning Post.
Facebook expands rules on political ads to Canada, Ukraine
- 26-Jun-2019
Facebook said it was making its transparency tools available to advertisers in more than 190 countries, although verification was not yet a requirement in most of those places.
Facebook toughens political ad policies in India
- 08-Feb-2019
Facebook is toughening up the rules governing political advertisements in India to create more transparency ahead of the country’s general elections
Facebook to verify identities for political ads
- 07-Apr-2018
WASHINGTON: Facebook announced Friday that it will require any political ads on its platform to state who is paying for the message, and would verify the identity of the payer, in a bid to curb outside election interference. The social network, which is under fire for enabling manipulation of its platform in the 2016 election, […]
Facebook moves toward revealing backers of political ads
- 28-Oct-2017
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook says it will take steps to deliver on a promise to reveal backers of political advertisements to boost transparency in the wake of criticism of the social network’s role in the 2016 US election. The leading social platform said it will begin testing and refining political ad transparency tools next month in […]