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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Friday, May 11, 2018
Facebook bans foreign advertisers during Ireland abortion vote
Paraic O'Brien-9 May 2018Correspondent
Facebook has blocked foreign adverts that target voters in Ireland’s upcoming abortion referendum.
Facebook has blocked foreign adverts that target voters in Ireland’s upcoming abortion referendum.
The referendum, being held on 25 May, could repeal the Republic’s Eighth
Amendment, which currently upholds a near-total ban on abortions.
In a statement, Facebook said: “as part of our efforts to help protect
the integrity of elections and referendums from undue influence, we will
begin rejecting ads related to the referendum if they are being run by
advertisers based outside of Ireland.
“Our company approach is to build tools to increase transparency around
political advertising so that people know who is paying for the ads they
are seeing, and to ensure any organisation running a political ad is
located in that country.”
Separately, the role of political advertising on social media has come
under intense scrutiny since Channel 4 News, the Observer and others
revealed how a British data firm was behind a ‘data grab’ of more than
50 million Facebook profiles.
Cambridge Analytica, described as “pivotal” in Donald Trump’s presidential victory, announced last week that it would close its global operations.
In a statement, the company said: “Over the past several months,
Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded
accusations and, despite the Company’s efforts to correct the record,
has been vilified for activities that are not only legal, but also
widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both
the political and commercial arenas.”
Meanwhile, Facebook itself has been under the gaze of regulators and legislators on both sides of the Atlantic following the revelations.