Facebook Political ads
Facebook political microtargeting at center of GDPR complaints in Germany
European privacy rights group noyb is building a case against every political party in Germany, alleging unlawful microtargeting of voters.
Facebook extends its temporary ban on political ads for another month
The election is settled, but the nation is far from it. Before Election Day in the U.S., Facebook hit pause on all political and social issue ads. At the time, the company made it clear that the preca
Facebook will pay Reuters to fact-check Deepfakes and more
Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process. Now the publisher will bring that expertise to the fight against misinformat
Zuckerberg defends politician ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue
As Jack Dorsey announced his company Twitter would drop all political ads, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg doubled-down on his policy of refusing to fact-check politicians’ ads. “At times of socia
Facebook shares rise on strong Q3, users up 2% to 2.45B
Despite ongoing public relations crises, Facebook kept growing in Q3 2019, demonstrating that media backlash does not necessarily equate to poor business performance. Facebook reached 2.45 billion mon