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Facebook says platform is ‘open, transparent, non-partisan’ after WSJ report claims content policies favoured BJP

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT has summoned Facebook on 2 September to discuss the alleged misuse of the platform

Facebook considering banning political ads ahead of US Presidential elections: Report

Reportedly, as of now, the potential ban is only being discussed and has not been finalised.

Facebook says it will now label newsworthy content, activists argue 'new changes don't go nearly far enough'

Facebook also said it will label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative information, including those from politicians.

Magnolia Pictures, Northface, other US companies pull ads from Facebook, Instagram in support of #StopHateForProfit campaign

The Stop Hate for Profit campaign was started by several US civil rights groups after the death of George Floyd.

Facebook drops plans to roll out adverts in WhatsApp, but will still integrate ads in Status: Report

Facebook hasn't, however, dropped its plan to integrate ads into the Status feature.

Facebook announces that it will remove certain misleading content about the 2020 US census

Facebook would prohibit ads that "portray census participation as useless or meaningless or advise people not to participate in the census."

Facebook under fire as thousands of political ads go missing from archive days ahead of UK elections

The problem affected Facebook ads from the ruling Conservative Party, the Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats.

Google to restrict advertisers from targeting election ads using data like public voter records

Google will limit audience targeting for election ads to age, gender and general location at a postal code level.

Sri Lanka presidential polls today: Despite 35 candidates in fray, voters face difficult task of picking 'lesser of two evils'

Even though there are 35 candidates in the fray for the Sri Lanka presidential election, the election has come down to a race between two candidates — Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa

International committee calls for pause on false political ads online

Zuckerberg has defended this policy, saying that the company does not want to stifle political speech.