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 ...

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Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.Related video above: ...

It follows a Reuters report about the social media giant's revenue from ads on Facebook and Instagram that promote scams and ...

Despite the rebranding at Meta – the company formerly known as Facebook – advertising options on Facebook and Instagram are expected to remain as we know them for the foreseeable future. One hopes ...

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said it will start releasing details in July about the demographics and interests of audiences who are targeted with ads that run on its two primary social ...

Instagram has announced that ads from "carefully selected brands" will start appearing for Australian users, confirming that advertising would be targeted using information shared with Facebook.

You can shut off Facebook and Instagram ads related to social issues, elections or politics ahead of the November presidential election. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and ...

The discovery of tens of thousands of racy advertisements for artificial intelligence-generated "girlfriends" across Meta apps prompted the social media giant to scrub its platforms of the explicit ...

Online ads are like salespeople. Sometimes they’re helpful – and sometimes they trail you while you shop, make suggestions, “check in” on you and all but shove you to the checkout. Those online ads ...