Facebook to let researchers access election ad data from Feb 1
3 years, 11 months ago

Facebook to let researchers access election ad data from Feb 1

India TV News  

Facebook will let researchers access, for the first time, the targeting information for more than 1.3 million social issue, electoral and political ads through the Facebook Open Research and Transparency platform from February 1. "By making the targeting criteria, such as location and interests, selected by advertisers running social issue, electoral or political ads available for analysis and reporting, we hope to help people better understand the practices used to reach potential voters on Facebook," the company said. Also on February 1, the 'US 2020 Election Spend Tracker' data currently available in the Ad Library will be moved to the Elections page, where the information will remain available for download. People who visit the Ad Library will continue to be able to compare aggregate ad spend for any set of Pages, including those representing future candidates or current elected officials, running social issue, electoral or political ads.

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Facebook, Instagram to reveal more on how ads target users
2 years, 7 months ago

Facebook, Instagram to reveal more on how ads target users

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The announcement follows years of criticism that the social media platforms withhold too much information about how campaigns, special interest groups and politicians use the platform to target small pockets of …

Facebook to provide data on targeted political ads
3 years, 11 months ago

Facebook to provide data on targeted political ads

The Hindu  

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 the United States last year. The social media giant said the data would include targeting criteria, such as location and interests, selected by advertisers running social issue, electoral or political ads. Academics and researchers can …

Facebook Tells New York University to Halt Project That Collects Political Ad Data
4 years, 2 months ago

Facebook Tells New York University to Halt Project That Collects Political Ad Data

News 18  

Facebook has asked the New York University to stop collecting data for a research project that aims to decipher political ad targeting on its platform. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Facebook claimed that the Ad Observatory which is a project at the university’s engineering school “scrapes data from political ads shown on Facebook”. The NYU Ad Observatory has …

Facebook Clamps Down On Posts, Ads That Could Undermine U.S. Presidential Election
4 years, 4 months ago

Facebook Clamps Down On Posts, Ads That Could Undermine U.S. Presidential Election

NPR  

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Facebook amplifies anti-misinformation efforts ahead of 2020 US election
4 years, 5 months ago

Facebook amplifies anti-misinformation efforts ahead of 2020 US election

The Hindu  

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Facebook to allow paid political messages that are not ads
4 years, 11 months ago

Facebook to allow paid political messages that are not ads

The Hindu  

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Facebook under fire as thousands of political ads go missing from archive days ahead of UK elections
5 years, 1 month ago

Facebook under fire as thousands of political ads go missing from archive days ahead of UK elections

Firstpost  

The problem affected Facebook ads from the ruling Conservative Party, the Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats. Thousands of UK political ads went missing from Facebook’s searchable advertising database on Tuesday, hampering researchers’ ability to track political ads two days before Britain’s general election. “We’re aware that people are having trouble accessing the ads in the ads library, and we’re …

Ad.watch is the only successful attempt at assimilating political advertisement data provided by Facebook
5 years, 1 month ago

Ad.watch is the only successful attempt at assimilating political advertisement data provided by Facebook

The Hindu  

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Twitter details political ad ban, admits it’s imperfect
5 years, 2 months ago

Twitter details political ad ban, admits it’s imperfect

Associated Press  

Twitter’s new ban on political ads will cover appeals for votes, solicitations for campaign contributions and any political content. Aside from ongoing concerns about foreign elections interference, the political advertising issue rose to the forefront in recent months as Twitter, along with Facebook and Google, refused to remove a misleading video ad from President Donald Trump’s campaign that targeted Democratic …

General election: Reveal your social media campaigns, parties told
5 years, 2 months ago

General election: Reveal your social media campaigns, parties told

The Independent  

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Facebook exempts politicians from third-party fact checking
5 years, 3 months ago

Facebook exempts politicians from third-party fact checking

The Quint  

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Facebook needs political advertisers to provide more info on who paid for the ad
5 years, 4 months ago

Facebook needs political advertisers to provide more info on who paid for the ad

Firstpost  

As per Facebook, the advertisers have to show government-issued credentials to demonstrate their legitimacy. Under scrutiny from regulators since Russia used social media platforms to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook has been rolling out ad transparency tools country by country since last year. Since May 2018, Facebook has required political advertisers in the United States to put …

Facebook given a deadline to provide researchers with data to study its impact on democracy
5 years, 4 months ago

Facebook given a deadline to provide researchers with data to study its impact on democracy

Firstpost  

Facebook had granted the 83 scholars selected for the project access to “only a portion of what they were told they could expect," A group of philanthropies working with Facebook Inc to study the social network’s impact on democracy threatened on Tuesday to quit, saying the company had failed to make data available to researchers as pledged. The funders said …

Facebook tightens rules for US political advertisers ahead of 2020 election
5 years, 4 months ago

Facebook tightens rules for US political advertisers ahead of 2020 election

Live Mint  

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Facebook announces changes to political ad rules ahead of EU elections in May
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook announces changes to political ad rules ahead of EU elections in May

Firstpost  

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Google to reveal details of political ads, spends ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls
5 years, 11 months ago

Google to reveal details of political ads, spends ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Live Mint  

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Facebook promised to fix political ads on its platform. It hasn’t
6 years, 2 months ago

Facebook promised to fix political ads on its platform. It hasn’t

CNN  

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Google releases a searchable library of political ads in the US
6 years, 5 months ago

Google releases a searchable library of political ads in the US

India Today  

Google, in a bid to increase transparency on its platform, has added a new section in its transparency report. "Earlier this year, we took important steps to increase transparency in political advertising.Now, we're continuing to roll out new transparency features with the addition of the political advertising report as well as a new political Ad Library," Michee Smith, Product Lead …

Facebook will grant experts access to 1 petabyte of user data...for science
6 years, 6 months ago

Facebook will grant experts access to 1 petabyte of user data...for science

Firstpost  

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook had announced that it would establish an independent research unit with academics where they would look into issues of social and political significance using Facebook user data and metadata. According to a report by Social Science One, the first batch of data offered by Facebook includes one petabyte of data — that’s a …

Twitter launches Ads Transparency Center for users to identify political campaigns
6 years, 6 months ago

Twitter launches Ads Transparency Center for users to identify political campaigns

Firstpost  

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