Ad blockers, the digital shields that nearly one billion internet users deploy to protect themselves from intrusive advertising, may be inadvertently exposing their users to more problematic content, ...

NEW YORK — Internet users who install ad-blocking software to escape annoying advertisements may actually be seeing more problematic content than people who browse without any protection at all.

The most concerning ads on social media are those “posing as articles,” says Vivek Shah, who runs J2 Global, an advertising and media company that owns sites including Mashable, IGN, and PCMag. But in ...

Meta used an internal playbook to delay enforcement action on scam ads worldwide, internal documents that Reuters accessed ...

Ads suck. And unskippable video ads? Those really suck. So it's no surprise that ad blockers are a popular add-on for every web browser. There's just one problem: ads are also how the vast majority of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide. Though China’s ...