Despite abundant data, Google and Meta’s ad transparency reports often obscure more than they reveal. While intended to enhance transparenc...

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the biggest spender on political ads. The party spent as much as Rs 39 crore, or one-third of t...

The numbers were revealed as part of its Ad Safety Report for 2022 where the tech giant said it blocked or restricted ads from serving over...

In September last year, the tech giant launched the programme in response to Republican (a US political committee) accusations that its alg...

Google had lifted a temporary ban on election-related advertisements on December 10. The policy seeks to prohibit content that potentially ...

The email, seen by Reuters and first reported by Axios, said that "advertisers will not be able to run ads referencing candidates, the elec...

The move builds on Google's efforts launched in 2018 to verify political advertisers.

Google until now required identity verification only for political advertisers running election ads on its platform.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently said the company was banning political advertising as internet political advertising presents new challeng...

Both Google and Facebook introduced ads transparency tools in India ahead of general elections in February to make ads funding public.

Election Commission issues advisory to officials, circulates web links of FB, Google, Twitter ad reports as it calls for transparency in ex...

Political parties and their affiliates have spent Rs 3.76 crore on advertisements since February 19, 2019, according to the internet giant'...

Google said it rolled out new norms from February 14, while Facebook said its new policy will be in place from February 21.

Aim is to bring more transparency to online election ads.

Google will verify the identity of advertisers before their election ads run on its platforms, the company said in a statement.

Since Whatsapp does not carry ads, its contribution would be, or rather, should be, to weed out fake news on its platform, the most widely ...

"We are in the early stages of finalising measures that will bring greater transparency to political advertising on our platforms," a Googl...