Help The Globe screen political advertesment on Facebook

as mentioned in And, because it's an election year, you could expect to see political advertesment – lots of them. ProPublica has designed a browser extension – the Facebook Political advertesment Collector – which logs political advertesment into a DB for aftertime reporting. ProPublica's Facebook Political advertisement Collector Utilizes machine learning algorithms to set whether a Facebook advertisement is likely to be political in nature, and it is trained to identify a country's particular political ads. The Globe going to be provided access to a safe DB maintained and owned exclusively with ProPublica with information for all gathered Canadian Facebook political ads. Once you download the extension, ProPublica's collector going to screen your feed for political advertesment and send them to ProPublica's database.

Facebook bans all crypto-currency ads

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Facebook told it was unlock to new technologies, however felt it had to prevent usersFacebook has told it going to ban any advertising promoting crypto-currency products and services. Facebook urged users to report any advertesment the company's safety measures missed. "We need people to still to find out and learn about new products and services out of Facebook advertesment without fear of scams or deception," wrote Rob Leathern, output management director for Facebook Business. Deception worriesUsing Facebook advertesment to generate "buzz" around a new scheme can be a particularly efficient method, especially the time paired with celebrity endorsement. It states: "Ads have to not promote financial products and services which are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices, such as binary options, premier coin offerings, or crypto-currency."

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