# Facebook and Instagram owner, Meta says it will be forced to ban political advertising on its platforms in the European Union from October because of rules it calls “unworkable”. The EU bolstered rules to reign in Big Tech. Meta has hit out against it with the support of the US administration under President Donald Trump. Meta says political, electoral and social issue advertising will no longer be allowed. The EU says its political advertising rules seek to increase transparency in online advertising after Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, which came to light in 2018.
Meta says it will be forced to ban political advertising in EU