“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.

Consumers have long been concerned about privacy issues with Facebook, with controversies dating back as far as 2006, when ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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.

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 ...

millions of Americans were exposed to Facebook ads and posts generated by Russian operatives who sought to influence voter behavior and exploit divisions in American society on hot-button issues.

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 ...