The move comes ahead of new EU regulations on transparency around political advertising, setto come into effect in October.

According to a Reuters report, Meta Platforms will stop running political, electoral, and social issue advertisements on Facebook and Instagram across the European Union starting early October 2025.

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The EU’s transparency rules for political advertising, aimed at restricting foreign interference, will apply as of 10 October.View on euronews ...

The European Union legislation, called the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising regulation and which will apply from October 10 ...

Meta Platforms will end political, election and social issue advertising on its platform in the EU in early October, blaming legal uncertainties due to new EU rules on political advertising, the U.S.

Against this uneasy backdrop, and with EU-U.S. trade tensions sky-high, Meta announced that political, electoral and social issue advertising will no longer be allowed from October in the bloc because ...

Google last year announced it would also prevent political advertising in the EU from October 2025 because of the "significant new operational challenges and legal uncertainties".

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The rules introduce “significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties,” Meta said.