The CMA has accepted Meta’s changes to the ways in which it uses customers’ advertising data across Facebook Marketplace.
WARC: Social media is now the world’s largest advertising channel
Social media has now grown to become the world’s largest channel by advertising investment, forecast to grow to a total value of £197.6b this year.
Meta subject to EU disinformation probe amid election interference fears
The European Commission is investigating Meta as part of a disinformation probe after the US firm was suspected of breaching content rules.
20 years of Facebook: How the social media giant has changed advertising
As Facebook celebrates its 20th anniversary, we examine the radical impact that the social network has had on the advertising and marketing industries.
Facebook faces mammoth £3bn data privacy lawsuit in London courts
A £3 billion lawsuit brought against Facebook over alleged breaches of data privacy has been given the go ahead by a London judge.
Are Meta’s new fake AI labelling tools just a drop in the ocean?
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has said that it will implement new technology to detect and label images generated by AI tools.
Sheryl Sandberg quits board of Facebook’s £92bn advertising empire
Sheryl Sandberg has stepped down from parent company Meta after turning Facebook from a simple tech start-up into a global advertising empire.
Labour goes back-to-basics with ‘Rishi’s raw deal’ spoof attack ads
Labour is taking a back-to-basics spoof approach to its new year campaigning with ‘Rishi’s raw deal’ attack ads appearing across the UK.
Tory party spends £50,000 on Rishi Sunak Facebook adverts in one week
The Conservative Party has dramatically ramped up its ad spend on Rishi Sunak’s Facebook page in the final weeks of 2023.
Meta bars political advertisers from using its new generative AI tools
Meta is set to bar political campaigns and other advertisers with regulated industries from using its new generative AI advertising products.
