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LONDON (AP) — Hapless husbands and housework-burdened moms were being banished from British advertising, as a crackdown on “harmful” gender stereotypes came into force Friday.

Connecticut pro-life activists celebrated the demise of a Democrat bill that claimed pregnancy care centers engage in deceptive advertising.

Google has reportedly developed a new way to “disrupt” the $129 billion digital advertising industry while claiming to give users greater control over their online privacy through changes to how tracking cookies work.

The White House will put measures in place as soon as this summer to require further transparency from drug advertisers.

Gillette’s new Gillette Venus advertisement campaign features morbidly obese women and transgender models. The company claims “ALL types of beautiful skin deserve to be shown,” but it has experienced resistance and widespread mockery on social media. An advertisement featuring one

Facebook’s advertisement targeting system can’t help but discriminate, according to a report, which claimed it discriminates by race and gender even when told not to.

Facebook is changing its political advertising rules to ban parties and campaigns from advertising in countries where they do not have a representative.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) have proposed a bill which would ban targeted advertising by Big Tech to young children. The goal is an “eraser button” to remove data about children from social media platforms and other Big Tech sites.

A supermarket ad containing mostly fresh produce but that contained butter, bacon, and jam was banned after London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a prohibition on advertising ‘junk food’ on the Underground.

Major companies, including McDonald’s, Nestlé, and Epic Games have pulled advertisements from Google’s YouTube over reports of a pedophile problem on the platform.

Filings submitted to U.K., Irish, and Polish regulators allege that Google was aware that its advertising network business model broke E.U. GDPR laws.

A new Facebook feature will roll out at the end of February will reveal to users why advertisers were given their contact information.

A viral egg account on Instagram, which broke the world record for the most likes on the platform last month, was created by advertisers, who chose the egg because it “has no gender, race or religion.”

Guinness has dropped a number of rugby sponsorship adverts in Ireland after complaints that they could cause “offence or confusion” to immigrants. The world-famous dry stout company, which is a sponsor and the official beer of the Six Nations rugby

Newsguard isn’t just a news-rating app — it also aims to deplatform pro-Trump media by cutting off its ad revenue.

The Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based retailer’s new campaign is all about diversity and non-traditional brides, including same-sex brides and those already with children, reports AdAge.

My favourite advert of the last ten years was probably the “Are you beach body ready?” Protein World poster campaign, writes James Delingpole.

Adverts showing a housewife looking after the family will be banned from next year in an industry-wide crackdown on “harmful stereotypes” which researchers allege contribute to “real-world gender inequalities”.

A group of British MP’s, seemingly upset at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to appear before the U.K. Parliament, have released a cache of seized Facebook documents. The documents outline many of Facebook’s practices around advertising. 

According to internal Facebook emails revealed by the Wall Street Journal, the social media giant considered cutting deals with third party companies in order to provide them with access to Facebook user data.

Facebook Ad Platform Crashes Ahead of Black Friday

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream will not make a political advertisement for Democratic candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar, despite naming a flavor for him last week.

Google shut down Toronto mayoral candidate Faith Goldy’s online advertising campaign Saturday, just 48 hours before polls opened.

Facebook has apologized to a woman after she accused them of “taunting” her with baby-related advertisements following a stillbirth. She was reportedly unable to turn off the ads despite repeated efforts.

A new lawsuit filing alleges that Facebook purposefully inflated the time spent watching videos on its platform by 150 percent to 900 percent to mislead advertisers and inflate advertising rates.

The head of Google’s massively lucrative advertising and commerce business, worth approximately $110 billion, is leaving the company to join venture capital firm Greylock Partners.

Television advertisements paid for by Saudi Arabia promoting the Islamist dictatorship’s “reform” programme should not have been aired in the UK, the regulator has said.

A newly filed lawsuit alleges that Facebook misled advertisers by inflating the “potential reach” figures for ad campaigns — the total audience that views ads on the platform.

According to a recent report, advertising technology firms are increasingly being pushed out of the market by large tech firms led by Facebook and Google.

A recently filed Facebook patent would enable the company to employ a user’s phone to record their reactions to advertisements.