Australian election: Facebook restricts foreign 'political' ads but resists further transparency

Facebook will not be rolling out transparency features it introduced in the UK, US, EU, India, Israel and Ukraine

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Facebook has announced it will restrict "political" ads from being bought by non-Australians during the election campaign, but will not be rolling out other key political ad transparency features used in other countries until after the election.

In a blog post published on Friday, Mia Garlick, director of policy for Facebook Australia, detailed the company's plans to combat misinformation and foreign interference during the Australian election campaign.