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November 28, 2018

Ok Google, protect my democracy

The search engine will bar non-EU sources from purchasing political ads leading up to European Parliament elections


Max Traeger

3 min read

Google announced on Thursday that it would produce detailed transparency rules before the European elections in 2019 — forcing advertisers buying online political ads to provide evidence that they were either Europe-based entities or EU citizens.

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