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Facebook's New Screening System Flags the Wrong Ads as Political

Jun 15, 2018

After Facebook announced a new political ads transparency system, we used our Political Ad Collector database to check their work: a colleague and I found many news outlets whose boosted posts were miscategorized as political ads – and many real political ads that were missing from the database.

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