Eight months later, Facebook fulfills promise to label state-run media

At long last, Facebook announced Thursday that it has started labeling "state-controlled media" on the social network. Labels noting that an outlet is "partially or wholly under the control of a state" are showing up in a page's Ad Library, on Pages themselves, and in the Page Transparency section.

Beginning next week, for U.S. users, Facebook will also affix the label to posts from the pages that show up in News Feed. Ads from the organizations will start getting the label "later this summer."

Facebook first announced the initiative in October of 2019. It's part of the company's efforts to increase transparency about who is behind the information a user is seeing, particularly as related to elections. Read more...