Ahead of US midterms, Meta to share how much advertisers spent in an effort to target audience on Instagram, FacebookThe new details could shed more light on how politicians spread misleading or controversial political messages.
24 May, 2022, 01.16 PM IST
Facebook-owner Meta to share more political ad targeting dataMeta said it would also include detailed targeting information for these individual ads in its "Facebook Open Research and Transparency" da...
24 May, 2022, 08.02 AM IST
Facebook-owner Meta to share more political ad targeting dataMeta said it would also include detailed targeting information for these individual ads in its "Facebook Open Research and Transparency" da...
23 May, 2022, 06.24 PM IST
BJP Uttar Pradesh, Koo, Indian National Congress-Punjab among top spending pages on Facebook ahead of state electionsAs per data from Facebook's Ad Library- that provides a searchable collection of all ads running across the Facebook platform including Ins...
26 Jan, 2022, 07.47 PM IST
Meta announces enforcement on ads around social issues in IndiaThe enforcement will require anyone running ads on social issues on Facebook and Instagram to be authorized and include disclaimers on thei...
10 Dec, 2021, 11.42 AM IST
Facebook ads have enabled discrimination; we need to know how 'dark ads' affect peopleThese so-called "dark ads" are visible only to the targeted user. They are hard to track, since an ad may only appear a few times before di...
03 Oct, 2021, 10.48 AM IST
Facebook shuts out NYU academics' research on political adsFacebook says the researchers violated its terms of service and were involved in unauthorized data collection from its massive network. The...
06 Aug, 2021, 07.30 AM IST
Facebook found briefly running fake 'Clubhouse for PC' app adsCybercriminals briefly floated fake 'Clubhouse for PC' app ads on Facebook in a bid to plant malware on devices of unsuspecting users befor...
09 Apr, 2021, 08.20 PM IST
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg braces for civil unrestMark Zuckerberg expressed his concern while describing safeguards against misinformation and voter suppression at the leading social networ...
30 Oct, 2020, 10.58 AM IST
Parties go big on Facebook ads as state polls nearBJP and its affiliates collectively spent Rs 21.6 lakh in 3 states, according to FB data.
03 Oct, 2019, 07.29 AM IST
Political ad spend on Facebook, Google tops Rs 53 crAd spend on Google, YouTube, and partner properties since February 19 stood at Rs 27.36 crore with 14,837 ads.
19 May, 2019, 02.35 PM IST
Political ad spend on Facebook crosses Rs 10 cr; BJP supporters continue to leadTill the previous week (ending March 23), the number of such ads was 41,974, while the total spending was Rs 8.58 crore.
07 Apr, 2019, 12.33 PM IST
Facebook ramps up efforts to make elections ads more transparent, to start enforcement on February 21Facebook will also show the location of the people who are running pages with political ads in India.
08 Feb, 2019, 07.36 AM IST
After FB, Google builds political ad database in IndiaAim is to bring more transparency to online election ads.
24 Jan, 2019, 11.07 AM IST
New Google policy to reveal political ad-spend in IndiaGoogle will verify the identity of advertisers before their election ads run on its platforms, the company said in a statement.
22 Jan, 2019, 12.52 PM IST
Facebook makes it must for advertisers to disclose their identity, locationBeginning early next year, Facebook will start showing a disclaimer on all political advertisements.
07 Dec, 2018, 07.18 AM IST
Google VP explains why YouTube isn't worried about Facebook's huge video growth"YouTube is a library of videos where users generally already know what they want to watch, while Facebook videos appear randomly in the fe...
25 Jun, 2015, 02.32 PM IST