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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks during the company’s 2017 Cloud Next event in San Francisco. Bloomberg | Getty Images Roughly a month after the U.S. presidential election, Google is lifting its temporary pause on elections-related advertising. The company had banned those ads for a period of time in an attempt to prevent potential exploitation or misinformation via advertising since it expected delayed election results. “To protect users, we regularly pause ads for a discrete period over… Source link

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Google’s decision — which marks the return of political ads on high-profile sites like YouTube and Google search pages — comes days before the Electoral College votes will be tallied, as well as one month before the Georgia Senate runoffs, leaving campaigns and committees some time to get their digital strategies back on track. Facebook, which also instituted a ban on political ads ahead of the election, has not yet announced if or when it will lift its ban. The two social media… Source link

Facebook Inc.  and Alphabet Inc.’s Google plan to continue banning political ads on their platforms for the next several weeks to prevent confusion about election results, according to people familiar with the matter and an email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Facebook told advertisers in an email on Wednesday it plans to continue its postelection ban on political ads for “another month.” Google representatives have told some advertisers it is unlikely… Source link