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Political advertisers and large Facebook Pages will have to undergo verification

Lately! I am not the best for Facebook! because in the face of the Cambridge Analytica scandal! the company has to rebuild trust with its users. The effect of this is the constant introduction of updates regarding privacy and transparency – on Friday we cited  9 significant changes to the application’s API ! which limit external applications from accessing some data about Facebook and Instagram users. Over the weekend! more news malaysia email list was announced! this time regarding the verification of advertisers and Pages.

Political Ad Transparency

Back in February! we wrote about Facebook’s plans to use postcards to verify who runs political ads . Earlier! tools were also implemented to help remove content and shut down fake accounts.

From now on! any advertiser who wants to run a political ad or so-called “issue ads”  french destinations for this summer! that touch on socially important topics will have to be verified. To do this! you need to confirm your identity and location. The content  will be marked with the label “political ad” and it will be necessary to indicate who paid for it .

Anyone who fails to verify their account will not be able to enable promotional ba leads content on the service. The need to verify advertisers is already appearing in the United States! and will be introduced in other countries in the coming months.

 

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In addition! for even greater ad transparency! a tool has been  Political advertisers  created that allows anyone to see all the ads that are currently running!  even if they are not visible on the site. It is currently being tested in Canada and will be available in other countries this summer. Zuckerberg also mentioned in his post that a solution is in the works that will allow users to browse an archive of past political ads.

Checking large Pages too

Facebook’s CEO announced that large Pages will also be checked.  Although the founder of the social network does not indicate what exactly characterizes a fan page considered large! managers of such Pages will also be required to confirm their identity and location.

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