Will Meta’s new content policy impact your auction’s ads on Facebook?
Posted on: January 11, 2025 /
Categories: Uncategorized
Last Tuesday, Mark Zuckerburg announced that Meta will pull back its third-party fact-checking of user content in regards to potential hate speech. In lieu of this, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will be policed by community notes—the systems currently used by Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter).
While this might result in Facebook looking and feeling more like it did in 2016, this policy doesn’t change the restrictions on paid content like ads. We will still be prohibited from advertising items related to alcohol, ammo, drugs, guns, knives, multilevel marketing, porn, tobacco, vaping, and weapons. This applies to modern or antique items that show these categories in your auction catalogs. We will continue to need to link to a splash page instead of a catalog that includes text or images that would get flagged by the automated inspectors—or forego advertising the auction at all.
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