DMC calls on Facebook to reconsider its criteria for accepting ads in Iraq

Baghdad-INA

Baghdad - INA

The Digital Media Center called on Sunday, the Facebook platform to reconsider the criteria for accepting ads in Iraq.

 The center said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that it "observed on the two Facebook platforms, and to a lesser extent on Instagram, dozens of advertisements, some of which contain irrational clips of people claiming that they are (a doctor, sheikh, a spiritualist or a healer) doing things that go beyond the limits of science and reason.  Even religion.

 The Center expressed its "astonishment at the presence of these pages within the Facebook platform, as well as allowing the advertisements funded for these pages, even though they violate Facebook's standards that prevent the presence of fraudulent accounts that deceive people."

 The statement added, "Facebook is contradicting its laws regarding this issue, as the company emphasizes in its policy standards to prevent the publication of frauds that occur on the ground or that depend on spirituality, according to the company's text contained on its official website related to the principles of transparency and publishing policies."

 The center renewed, according to the statement, "its call to the Facebook platform to reconsider its criteria for accepting ads in Iraq and the need to subject them to careful examination and proper review before they are approved and their content appears in front of millions of users."