Microsoft Advertising policies prohibit ads for election-related content, political candidates, parties, ballot measures and political fundraising globally. Similarly, ads aimed at fundraising for political candidates, parties, political action committees (“PACs”), and ballot measures also are barred. All Microsoft and third-party services that rely on Microsoft Advertising to serve advertisements on their platforms benefit from these robustly enforced set of policies.
Furthermore, Microsoft prohibits political advertising across Microsoft media properties and platforms. Microsoft Advertising’s policies also prohibit certain types of advertisements that might be considered issue-based. More specifically, “advertising that exploits political agendas, sensitive political issues or uses ‘hot button’ political issues or names of prominent politicians is not allowed regardless of whether the advertiser has a political agenda,” and “advertising that exploits sensitive political [or religious] issues for commercial gain or promote extreme political [or extreme religious] agendas or any known associations with hate, criminal or terrorist activities” is also prohibited.
As stated in our revised policies, “We may use a combination of internal signals and trusted third-party data or information sources to reject, block, or take down ads or sites that contain disinformation or send traffic to pages containing disinformation.”
Microsoft Advertising partners with third parties as sources for strategic intelligence on domains. Microsoft Advertising actions domains, based in part on these sources evaluations as foreign influence related or non-compliant.
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