Staff writer, with CNAGoogle Inc announced that as of yesterday its online advertising platform would not run campaign ads ahead of the Jan. 11 presidential and legislative elections, citing concerns about potential misinformation in the ads. However, these changes take time and cannot be achieved in the two months before the election, she said, adding that this was the primary factor in its decision to forgo campaign ads. Google’s decision is in contrast with Facebook, which continues to defend running paid political ads ahead of elections worldwide. On Tuesday, Facebook said that it provides ad transparency tools in Taiwan for ads focused on the upcoming elections. Facebook launched transparency tools covering political and issue ads in the US in May last year, before extending them to the UK and India later that year and other countries earlier this year.

Source: Taipei Times November 15, 2019 15:56 UTC