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I understand the privacy concerns, the problem being that Facebook's ads targeting has no transparency, which is very problematic for issues of public interest.
by bad_user 8y ago
I understand the privacy concerns, the problem being that Facebook's ads targeting has no transparency, which is very problematic for issues of public interest.
For elections for example I'd like to be able to see what parties or what politicians are paying for Facebook ads, what demographics are they targeting and with what ads.
If Facebook exposed this data, it wouldn't be a privacy issue.
- ahartmetz 8y agoThey can't do this for reasons of privacy of advertisers. /s
- lclarkmichalek 8y agoSome of what you want might be available here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/archive/ https://www.facebook.com/ads/archive/ (https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2405092116183307 https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2405092116183307). (work for fb)
- rock_hard 8y agoThey actually make that data you mentioned publicly available already. With an archive that allows you to go back 7 years or something