Facebook-owner Meta to share more political ad targeting data


FILE PHOTO A smartphone with Facebooks logo is seen in front of displayed Facebooks new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration taken October 28 2021. REUTERSDado RuvicIllustrationFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with Facebook's logo is seen in front of displayed Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration taken October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo

(Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc will share more data on targeting choices made by advertisers running political and social-issue ads in its public ad database, it said on Monday.

Meta said it would also include detailed targeting information for these individual ads in its "Facebook Open Research and Transparency" database used by academic researchers, in an expansion of a pilot launched last year.

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