Policy Watch: Facebook Updates Guidelines Prohibiting Low-Quality Ads

Facebook has been continuing its crackdown on questionable, if not illegal, advertising practices. Following increased enforcement against advertisers on its performance ad network in March, it made an official update to its ad guidelines terms late last week, although related enforcement appears to have begun in the past few weeks.

Most users have probably spotted some of the problematic ads before — fake dating service subscriptions, non-functional weight-loss products, fake diplomas and other riff-raff. But there are other problems to, like user data theft.

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