Policy

Who Targets Me’s first product was our browser extension. Before Meta offered an ad library, it allowed us to crowdsource the political ads people were being targeted with and better explain which ads were showing up to different people in different places, and how those ads were targeted. It still does, but the extension now…

On 27th November, Google announced it would stop carrying political ads in the EU before new political advertising regulations kick in next year. Google currently has a “weak” definition of political ads (essentially they’re ads run by national parties and candidates during election periods), versus Meta’s rather stronger one (the wider “political and issue ads”…