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Re:Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Poli... by pbalau on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:55PM (#24876821)
The ad itself is not private information. The fact that I match the targeting for said ad, is.
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Re:Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Poli... by Xylakant on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:41AM (#24877416)
What needs to be published is not that you match the targeting. The information that needs publishing is „who is targeting which ad with what criteria.“ That is:

The advertiser, The ad, the targeting given.

None of this contains private information and it‘s equivalent to what‘s known about ads in a newspaper.

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