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Report March 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)?
If yes, list these implementation measures here
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?
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
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.
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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’s Advertising Standards prohibit any ad that is identified as violating our Misinformation Community Standard 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 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 behavior or voter or census interference policies in the EEA from 01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025. 
  2. Overall number of Ads removed on Facebook and Instagram combined (in the EEA) from 01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025. 

Number of Ads removed on Facebook and Instagram combined for violating our harmful health misinformation or inauthentic behavior or voter or census Overall number of Ads removed on Facebook and Instagram combined (in the EEA) from 01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025.
Austria Over 7,000 Over 350,000
Belgium Over 15,000 Over 200,000
Bulgaria Over 4,600 Over 1,500,000
Croatia Over 2,300 Over 580,000
Cyprus Over 4,800 Over 250,000
Czech Republic Over 10,000 Over 96,000
Denmark Over 4,800 Over 180,000
Estonia Over 2,700 Over 700
Finland Over 3,200 Over 660,000
France Over 17,000 Over 460,000
Germany Over 23,000 Over 21,000
Greece Over 5,000 Over 100,000
Hungary Over 30,000 Over 220,000
Ireland Over 3,900 Over 1,100,000
Italy Over 25,000 Over 210,000
Latvia Over 2,200 Over 480,000
Lithuania Over 3,200 Over 340,000
Luxembourg Over 680 Over 89,000
Malta Over 870 Over 100,000
Netherlands Over 7,500 Over 640,000
Poland Over 15,000 Over 350,000
Portugal Over 2,500 Over 46,000
Romania Over 28,000 Over 150,000
Slovakia Over 7,600 Over 230,000
Slovenia Over 980 Over 440,000
Spain Over 9,900 Over 730,000
Sweden Over 8,700 Over 1,000,000
Iceland Over 4,800 Over 350,000
Liechtenstein Less than 100 Over 44,000
Norway Over 3,200 Over 96,000
Total Over 250,000 Over 11,000,000