Over the last few years, Facebook has come under increased criticism of its handling of political content on its platform. There have been governmental panels and committees before which Facebook has had to testify about the political activity that goes on regularly on their platform. Facebook was used by a bad actor from foreign countries to interfere in elections of strong democracies as an attack on these democracies. After such attacks came to light, many third-party monitoring tools and transparency tools came up to put a check on the advertising and content on Facebook. This move has got mixed reactions from the public and even drawn criticism from some quarters. The following are some of the details about the latest move by Facebook to block third party ad transparency tools Online:
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This has definitely come as a setback to activists and transparency organizations all over the world. Facebook has promised new steps to make ad buys more transparent and information more readily available to users. It was severely criticized by many governments in the past for its platform being misused in the past. There were reports of Facebook pages and ads that targeted voters in America which were paid for by foreign agents looking to interfere in the American election. Many elections in Europe were also targeted by foreign agents and misinformation campaigns were run just before election seasons in these countries. The world is a much divided place right now and Facebook is being used to further divide and alienate groups of people from each other. Facebook has an important role in the world today and has to be responsible for the content on its platform.
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