Facebook and Google urged to ban political ads before UK election
by Alex Hern from on (#4TMSS)
Letter calls for suspension until after vote due to lack of time to reform online advertising rules
The UK does not have time to solve the problems of online political advertising before the general election, meaning it should be voluntarily suspended by Facebook and Google until after the vote, campaigners, academics and non-profits have said.
In a letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai, the chief executives of Facebook and Google, as well as Nick Clegg and Kent Walker, the heads of policy of the respective companies, the campaigners write that "with the announcement of the election coming in only six weeks, there is no time for regulations to catch up" with the reality of online advertising.
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