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Report September 2026

Submitted
Commitment 2
Relevant Signatories participating in advertising commit to prevent the misuse of advertising systems to disseminate Disinformation in the form of advertising messages.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 2.1 Measure 2.2 Measure 2.3
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
No, we did not introduce any new measures during the reporting period. 
If yes, list these implementation measures here
N/A
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
No, we do not plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months. 
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
N/A
Measure 2.1
Relevant Signatories will develop, deploy, and enforce appropriate and tailored advertising policies that address the misuse of their advertising systems for propagating harmful Disinformation in advertising messages and in the promotion of content.
Instagram
QRE 2.1.1
Signatories will disclose and outline the policies they develop, deploy, and enforce to meet the goals of Measure 2.1 and will link to relevant public pages in their help centres.
Advertisers running ads across Meta technologies must follow our Terms of Service, our Community Standards and our Advertising Standards. Meta Advertising Standards prohibit any ad that is identified as violating our Community Standards on misinformation or any ad that includes content that has been rated as False, Altered, Partly false, Missing context, Satire or True by third-party fact-checkers.See more information here.

SLI 2.1.1
Signatories will report, quantitatively, on actions they took to enforce each of the policies mentioned in the qualitative part of this service level indicator, at the Member State or language level. This could include, for instance, actions to remove, to block, or to otherwise restrict harmful Disinformation in advertising messages and in the promotion of content.
1. Number of ads removed on Facebook and Instagram combined for violating our harmful health misinformation or inauthentic behaviour or voter or census interference policies in the EEA from 01/01/2026 to 30/06/2026.
2. Overall number of ads removed on Facebook and Instagram combined (in the EEA) from 01/01/2026 to 30/06/2026.
Number of ads removed on Facebook and Instagram combined for violating our harmful health misinformation or inauthentic behaviour or voter or census interference policies in the EEA from 01/01/2026 to 30/06/2026. Overall number of ads removed on Facebook and Instagram combined (in the EEA) from 01/01/2026 to 30/06/2026.
Austria 517 42,924
Belgium 958 72,391
Bulgaria 1,427 85,695
Croatia 413 35,377
Cyprus 4,791 220,785
Czech Republic 1,555 304,288
Denmark 866 60,849
Estonia 1,897 226,220
Finland 294 40,752
France 7,276 546,367
Germany 5,009 511,212
Greece 764 59,354
Hungary 2,721 100,005
Iceland 4,248 644,011
Ireland 283 41,744
Italy 7,247 665,960
Latvia 737 39,021
Liechtenstein 2 2,723
Lithuania 1,211 68,739
Luxembourg 163 5,070
Malta 514 22,303
Netherlands 2,755 252,413
Norway 3,403 227,174
Poland 4,808 377,952
Portugal 3,191 157,484
Romania 2,066 139,260
Slovakia 526 54,304
Slovenia 602 18,811
Spain 5,136 343,020
Sweden 1,845 88,794
Total 67,225 5,455,002