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Facebook rejects ads promoting stories about climate change under policy on 'sensitive' topics
The policy restricts journalism about "heavily debated" topics from being promoted - but doesn't affect ads for products.
Facebook is rejecting ads promoting stories about climate change under a policy restricting "sensitive" or "heavily debated" topics, New Zealand Geographic magazine says. Other countries have different issues flagged - in Australia it is coal and the Great Barrier reef, in the EU fracking, in India it is air pollution and its damage to lives, while Taiwan names nuclear energy. Greive said local news outlets overseas had also found their journalism hard or impossible to promote on the site, while posts of opinions and even videos sharing misinformation could still reach a wide audience.
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