European lawmakers have agreed plans to ban political advertisements targeting specific ethnic and religious communities, and to block ads funded by foreign lobbyists in the run up to an election, in an effort to protect EU elections from foreign interference. The latest in an armoury of powers the EU has been amassing to govern big tech firms, the EU’s long-awaited rules on digital political ads was followed this week by an announcement from Facebook owner Meta that it was voluntarily going one step further, imposing controls over political adverts using AI-generated images, video and audio on its platform.

Source: computing.co.uk