Facebook bans ads for Bloom, which competes with Facebook Login

according to Starting in Aug. 2017, Bloom spent a total of $300,000 on Facebook ads, Leimgruber said. That was when Facebook sent Bloom a note suggesting the ads ran afoul of Facebook's ban on misleading cryptocurrency ads. Leimgruber theorizes that Facebook was looking for an excuse to ban BloomID's ads because it competes with Facebook's own sign-in product, Facebook Login (formerly part of a broader service called Facebook Connect). "Since BMW and other financial institutions are using Bloom as a replacement for Facebook Connect, it's a threat to them." "You're being targeted with this ad because the entire history of you is being mined and sold," read one of Bloom's Facebook ads.

Facebook suddenly banned ads for start-up that gives users an alternative to a Facebook product

Bloom's founder thinks Facebook is actually upset because Bloom competes with Facebook's own identity service, Facebook Login. Facebook told Bloom it the ads as part of a crackdown on ads for deceptive financial products and services related to cryptocurrency. Among other functions, BloomID can also be used to apply for loans from services such as BMW Financial Services and American Express Middle East. Starting in Aug. 2017, Bloom spent a total of $300,000 on Facebook ads, Leimgruber said. That was when Facebook sent Bloom a note suggesting the ads ran afoul of Facebook's ban on misleading cryptocurrency ads.

We posed as 100 senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them.

referring to To test it, VICE News applied to buy fake ads on behalf of all 100 sitting U.S. senators, including ads "Paid for by" by Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. To test it, VICE News applied to buy fake ads on behalf of all 100 sitting U.S. senators, including ads "Paid for by" by Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. "When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads," Facebook Vice President of Ads Rob Goldman wrote on Oct. 27. Receiving approval to run an ad "paid for" by a senator typically just took a few minutes. Facebook has embarked on an aggressive advertising campaign to show off its new political transparency tools, including "Paid for by" disclosures.

Groups with neutral-sounding names launch Facebook ads against Texas Republicans

Trump says Lyin' Ted Cruz has accomplished nothing for Texas, and he's right," the ad reads, referring to a 2016 tweet from when Trump was a candidate. I call him Texas Ted," and he held a rally for Cruz last week in Houston. "The goal is to raise voters' awareness of this information."Others who monitor political ads called the Cruz ad deceptive, however. In fact, several outside groups are using Facebook ads to push their views ahead of the contentious 2018 midterm elections. To be sure, outright false ads exist on Facebook, too, and the phenomenon of misleading or vague names for groups behind ads is not unique to Facebook.

collected by :Roy Mark