Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted 13 to 17-year ... the search giant’s own rules against advertising to children. The publication reports that Google ...

Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company’s own rules for how minors are treated online. According to ...

Meta and Google have ... giant's rules against advertising to children, according to the Financial Times. According to Financial Times, the Instagram campaign "deliberately targeted a group ...

Meta ads are targeting minors on YouTube According to the report, Meta is promoting its Instagram app to users between 13 and 17 years of age on YouTube, despite Google’s policy that prohibits ...

foreign media Financial Times reported that Google and Meta had entered into a secret agreement to circumvent policies on the online treatment of minors and deliver Instagram targeted ads to ...

In a letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, lawmakers demand Meta share various details, including how many users interacted with such ads ... advertisements have on children and teenagers.

Meta has emphasised its commitment to local laws, explaining that some business messaging would still be restricted based on country-specific regulations. Its gambling ad policy requires approval and ...

A federal judge issued a last-minute partial block on a Texas law that would require some large web services to identify ...

The group argued that the promotion of high-fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) products to minors violated ... indeed HFSS. They targeted the ad at individuals over 18 using Meta's age targeting tools ...

Youth activist organisation Biteback 2030, which seeks to tackle the health dangers of processed foods, challenged whether the ad was for HFSS products, and whether the selection of media meant that ...

Much of social media’s effect can depend on the content children consume and the features that keep them engaged with a ...