“The content isn’t necessarily safer, but the likelihood your ad will be seen by a real person is far higher on Facebook than off.” But that’s where Facebook has an issue – off of its platform.

As Facebook tries to make itself over before CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Congress next week, the company is announcing several new authentication requirements for ads and Pages. Zuckerberg ...

The way our advertising system works ... involved in order to make certain that the issue doesn’t rear its ugly head again. Kudos to the Facebook engineers for making this happen.

But a number of them raised concerns about Facebook’s policy of allowing politicians to run false ads, said Khera and ... the discussion with them on the issues they have raised.” ...

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, announced Tuesday that it will begin limiting how political and issue advertising can be targeted at its users, removing the ability in most cases to deliver ads ...

Then in October, Facebook expanded that action by declaring it would prohibit all political and issue-based advertising after the polls closed on Nov. 3 for an undetermined length of time.

In fact, three-quarters of Facebook users are as active or more since privacy issues surfaced earlier this year. There were several companies that pulled their ads from the platform in the wake of ...

From June 29 it will extend this to advertisers seeking to run 'social issue ads' that ... and archived in a public Ad Library for seven years. Josh Machin, Facebook's head of public policy ...

Facebook’s advertising portal lets users choose their ... reducing pressure on the company to address the issue. In a 2015 newspaper column, Ben Carson, now HUD secretary, criticized ...

Five months ago, Facebook made a major push to increase transparency around political advertisements on its 2 billion person social network by making it easier for users to learn about the ...

On Wednesday, lawmakers released some of the 3,000 ads that Russian operatives bought during the 2016 presidential campaign and its aftermath. Facebook has said these ads were created by the ...