“Facebook is going to require ads that are targeted to people based on ‘politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues’ to be manually reviewed before they go live'” … “expects the new policy to slow down the launch of new ad campaigns”.
Facebook runs adverts? Never see ’em, as I run AdBlock Plus and F.B. Purity.
Facebook has just announced that there will be no more “dark ads”, which quietly target certain types of users and then vanish. All adverts will be visible to the public, and thus become trackable and quantifiable by audience type. To prevent political noodling with that capability, Facebook will build its own baseline public archive of “federal-election related ads”. They will also… “verify political ad buyers in federal elections, requiring them to reveal correct names and locations”.