Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was making some changes to its approach to political ads, including allowing users to turn off certain ad-targeting tools, but the updates stop far short of critics' demands and what rival companies have pledged to do.
The world's biggest social network has vowed to curb political manipulation of its platform, after failing to counter alleged
Russian interference and the misuse of user data by defunct political consulting firm
Cambridge Analytica in 2016.
Facebook said that in addition to rolling out a tool enabling individual users to choose to see fewer political and social issue ads on
Facebook and its photo-sharing app
Instagram, it will also make more ad audience data publicly available.