Meta Platforms Inc. will stop selling political and issue-focused advertising in the European Union, citing new regulations that the company believes creates “an untenable level of

Meta's reasoning for banning political, electoral, and social issue ads mirrors Google's when it decided to do the same thing in November. According to Google's explanation at the time, "new operational challenges and legal uncertainties for political advertisers and platforms" under the TTPA were too tough to bother complying with.

Meta has announced it will stop all political advertising in the EU by October, due to legal uncertainties surrounding the new election transparency rules. These rules, the company claims, impose significant challenges and obligations that make compliance difficult.