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I found it odd that the first thing I searched for returned dozens of different ads that were all flagged for being political when they clearly aren't.


The flag is "Related to politics or issues of importance", meaning it's a broad classifier for sensitive issues, not just political ones.


“This ad ran without a disclaimer. After the ad started running, we determined that the ad was related to politics and issues of national importance and required the label. The ad was taken down.”


>issues of national importance

Basically anything that hits this list and is targeting within those nations:

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/214754279118974?helpr...


Seems like a pretty arbitrary rule set. I'd love to see some examples of ads that don't have anything related to any of those topics. It seems like it would be pretty easy to argue that any ad is related to at least one of those bullets


I'm curious, are they notified when their ads are taken down? Or does facebook do "shadowbanning" themselves? I'd expect them to do it when nation-state interests are involved, but I guess nothing stops them from taking in the money from the regular folk and lying about ad impressions when an ad goes against their interests.




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