According to a Reuters report, Meta Platforms will stop running political, electoral, and social issue advertisements on Facebook and Instagram across the European Union starting early October 2025.

The EU’s transparency rules for political advertising, aimed at restricting foreign interference, will apply as of 10 October.View on euronews ...

European class actions surged in value in 2024, led by the U.K. with €155 billion ($180 billion) in claims—mainly driven by competition and consumer cases—followed by significant activity in Portugal ...

Meta Platforms will end political, election and social issue advertising on its platform in the EU in early October, blaming legal uncertainties due to new EU rules on political advertising, the U.S.

Against this uneasy backdrop, and with EU-U.S. trade tensions sky-high, Meta announced that political, electoral and social issue advertising will no longer be allowed from October in the bloc because ...

Google last year announced it would also prevent political advertising in the EU from October 2025 because of the "significant new operational challenges and legal uncertainties".

The list of online platforms under investigation for potential breaches of the EU’s Digital Services Act continues to grow, ...

The rules introduce “significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties,” Meta said.

Integrating compliance into the development process, rather than retrofitting it later, helps reduce operational risk ...