Facebook: If you want to buy a political ad, you now have to be “authorized”
by Cyrus Farivar from Ars Technica - All content on (#3M3TQ)
As part of a slew of recent changes stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook announced Friday that it would require advertisers to be "authorized" before they could post political ads.
The new policy comes just a few months after Facebook announced related moves after it discovered sketchy ad buys that likely came from the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll factory.
"We are working with third parties to develop a list of key issues, which we will refine over time," Rob Goldman, vice president of Ads, and Alex Himel, vice president of Local & Pages, wrote in the Friday blog post.
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