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 refused to sign the European Commission’s new AI Code of Practice, escalating tensions with Brussels just weeks before landmark regulation kicks in. The voluntary guidelines – designed to help tech giants prepare for the EU’s sweeping AI Act – were rejected outright by Meta’s global affairs chief Joel Kaplan,