09 Jul, 2024 Google Updates Policies on Political Advertising Including AI-Generated Content By Jeff Greenbaum Last year, Google announced that it would require political advertising in the United States (and in many other regions) to disclose when...
28 Mar, 2024 Google Releases 2023 Ads Safety Report By Jeff Greenbaum Google just released its annual Ads Safety Report, which describes its efforts to keep its platform “safe for users, advertisers, and...
16 Feb, 2024 Political advertising: Ballot of old nonsense or transparently better this time round? By Jessica Todd Geraint Lloyd-Taylor 2024 is the world’s largest ever election year, with over two billion voters going to the polls across 50 countries this year, including...
07 Nov, 2023 Meta Announces Limits on Advertisers' Use of Its New Generative AI Tools By Jeff Greenbaum Recently, Meta launched new generative AI tools for advertisers. Now, Meta has just announced some limits on the types of advertisers...
26 Sep, 2023 Exposing the Truth Behind Deepfakes in Political Ads By Samantha Rothaus Alexa Rozell Political advertisements showing clips of newscasts or politicians making speeches and talking to voters are nothing new – and with a...
07 Sep, 2023 Google to Require Election Ads to Disclose When They Use AI-Generated Content By Jeff Greenbaum Google announced that, starting in November, it will require political advertising in the United States (and many other regions) to...
11 Apr, 2023 Does Labour’s attack ad prove we need the ASA to “Take Back Control” of political advertising? By Brinsley Dresden Those of us who worry about the unregulated nature of political advertising in the UK are usually driven by our anger about Boris’s big...
04 Sep, 2022 Johnson’s legacy must be the regulation of political advertising By Brinsley Dresden Today, Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister will effectively draw to a close with the announcement of his successor, either Rishi Sunak...
26 Nov, 2021 European Commission proposes sets out new laws on political advertising – will the UK follow suit? By Brinsley Dresden The European Commission has proposed legislation on transparency and targeting of political advertising, as part of measures aimed at...
06 Sep, 2021 UK's Home Secretary backs 'aggressive' ad campaign attacking end-to-end encrypted messages By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The UK's Home Secretary, Priti Patel, is not in favour of end-to-end encrypted messaging. End-to-end encryption is a security feature...
18 Nov, 2019 Twitter Releases New Global Political Advertising Policy By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, Twitter released its new political advertising rules, which as previously announced, ban political advertising on the...
04 Nov, 2019 Facebook bans one political ad. But should it follow Twitter's lead and just ban them all? By Brinsley Dresden Tonight the BBC is reporting that Facebook has banned an ad by The Fair Tax Campaign which is apparently run by Alex Crowley, a former...
28 Aug, 2019 Preparing for U.S. Elections, Facebook Updates its Political Advertising Rules By Jeff Greenbaum Facebook just announced additional changes to its political advertising rules in order to "protect elections and prepare for the US 2020...
02 Jul, 2019 DCMS Select Committee and ICO slam government's failure to address online political advertising By Brinsley Dresden Damian Collins MP is the advertising industry's most illustrious alumni in Parliament, being Chair of the Department of Culture, Media...