Signal posted a series of ads showing how Facebook and its photo-sharing platform Instagram use its own ad tech tools to gather information from users.
The signal on a blog post revealed that Facebook had rejected the request to buy ads on Instagram. Signal said, "We created a multi-variant targeted ad designed to show you the personal data Facebook collects about you and sells access to. The ad would simply display some information collected about the viewer which the advertising platform uses. Facebook was not into that idea."
"Facebook is more than willing to sell visibility into people's lives unless it's to tell people about how their data is being used. Being transparent about how ads use people's data is apparently enough to get banned, in Facebook's world, the only acceptable usage is to hide what you are doing from your audience."
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Facebook authority immediately blocked the advertising account of Singal after that Signal tried to show the ad to Instagram users.
Signal also shared examples of a few ads.
Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike tweeted on this matter on a micro-blogging application. His tweet reads, "Signal tried to use Instagram ads to display the data Facebook collects about you and sells access to Facebook wasn't into the idea and shut down our account instead."