{"id":305554,"date":"2019-05-09T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T07:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=305554"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:13:42","slug":"facebook-is-allowing-cryptocurrency-ads-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/305554-facebook-is-allowing-cryptocurrency-ads-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is allowing cryptocurrency ads again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/business\/news\/updating-our-ad-policies-for-financial-services-and-products\/?_rdc=1&amp;_rdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that it will allow certain cryptocurrency-related ads to be run without requiring pre-approval.<\/p>\n<p>Ads that Facebook will now allow to be run without pre-approval include those related to blockchain technology, industry news, education surrounding blockchain, and events relating to cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>However, Facebook said that it will still require pre-approval on ads that actively promote specific cryptocurrencies, exchanges, and mining software and hardware.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This process will continue to take into account licences they have obtained, whether they are traded on a public stock exchange (or are a subsidiary of a public company) and other relevant public background on their business,&#8221; said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook also announced that as of 5 June, it will update its &#8220;Prohibited Financial Products and Services Policy&#8221; to include contracts for difference (CFD), which it claims are often used to mislead people by using &#8220;predatory behaviour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company confirmed that ICOs will continue to be banned from being advertised on Facebook.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/305528-whatsapp-working-on-new-app-for-windows-10.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp working on new app for Windows 10<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced it will allow certain cryptocurrency-related ads to be run without pre-approval &#8211; but ICOs will still be banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":221973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[187,58956,161],"class_list":["post-305554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency-ads","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305568,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305554\/revisions\/305568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}