Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instagram in the EU

Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by poisonborz on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:40AM (#44683675)

Wondering about the consequences to the Hungarian government, which is by far the largest spender on Meta political advertisement in the EU (yes, bigger than Germany or the EU Parliament itself). I only have last year's data (per capita), since then the spending grew significantly.

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/BFvCl/2/

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Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by duxup on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:24AM (#44684192)

I don't know if I would want government advertising, but I find this interesting as most of the advertising I get is weird food related ads and so on.

I don't want to buy your meat sticks people, or your 5G blocking beanie ...

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Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by riffraff on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:56AM (#44683886)

I've seen so many ads by the HU government and associated entities on YouTube I think they must be in the top 3 there too.

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Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by chpatrick on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:03AM (#44683968)

I hope this change also covers government-affiliated entities like Megafon, CÖF etc.

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Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by soco on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:14AM (#44684078)

Now I must wonder how come I never see any kind of political ads on Facebook...???

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Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by Tuna-Fish on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:41PM (#44690548)

Facebook allows targeting specific groups of people, you don't belong to one that anyone wanted to show political ads to.

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Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by miltonlost on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:55AM (#44683872)

Hopefully will reduce the right-wing propaganda and Orbán’s stranglehold on the country. He’s been a big maker in the authoritarian playbooks being used across the world now

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Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by pbnjeh on Saturday July 26, 2025 @11:14AM (#44694720)

IIRC, I saw some reporting that Hungary was spending (far) more on ads targeting other European countries and those elections, than on ads targeting their own.

In other words, an instigator, agent, and/or vehicle for right wing propaganda Europe-wide.

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