Two major dating app companies have suspended Instagram advertising after tests mimicking the behavior of child predators led to ads being served alongside sexually explicit material. Other brands ...

Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted sex offenders inquired about a child model. By Michael H. Keller and ...

Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users. Under the new rules, advertisers on Instagram and Facebook won’t be able to leverage as much personalized data to target ...

Meta’s court filing in an FTC case shows that in 2021 Instagram’s ad revenue topped $32 billion, compared to $28.8 billion for YouTube. Meta’s court filing in an FTC case shows that in 2021 ...

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Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway — unless it obtains users’ consent to the processing. The urgent order of provisional measures ...

A company's ability to masquerade as tech giant Apple for an ad campaign on Instagram has shone a light on the open door advertising policy of the social network, with ISBA suggesting that trust in ...

Thousands of ads on Facebook and Instagram have promoted “fuel filters” using videos demonstrating how they can be easily modified into gun silencers—a process that, without federal approval, could ...

When it comes to children's mental health and privacy, their loss translates into massive gains for social media companies: $11 billion, to be exact. That's according to a new Harvard study that shows ...

The Canadian government will stop spending some $7.5 million per year on Facebook and Instagram ads amid a dispute over a new law on paying online news publishers that the Meta-owned platforms have ...