"Advertisers will be prohibited from running political ads electoral or issue-based until they are authorised, Facebook said, announcing plans to make advertisements on its platform more transparent. "In addition, these ads will be clearly labelled in the top left corner as 'Political Ad'. "We realise we won't catch every ad that should be labelled, and we encourage anyone who sees an unlabelled political ad to report it. By increasing transparency around ads and Pages on Facebook, we can increase accountability for advertisers improving our service for everyone, Facebook said. Earlier, Zuckerberg had said that Facebook was enhancing its security features to ensure the integrity of upcoming key elections in countries like India on its platform.

Source: dna April 07, 2018 09:56 UTC