The Guardian view on online politics: bring the ads into the light

Editorial: Facebook makes it easy to target very small sections of the electorate. The rest of us should be able to see these messages

Tories and Labour use social media to target ads at specific seats

National attack ads have given way to tailored messages playing on local concerns in closing stages of election campaigning

Advertisers should follow Vodafone’s lead after Facebook and Google failures

Telecoms giant is right to stop relying on social media titans to prevent its adverts appearing next to inappropriate content

Vodafone to stop its ads appearing on fake news and hate speech sites

Telecoms company to work with Google and Facebook to set up a ‘whitelist’ of safe sites on which its advertising can appear

Google to build adblocker into Chrome browser to tackle intrusive ads

Google hopes it can improve browsing experience and protect its business model by only blocking the most annoying ads

Griefsploitation: an advertising trend that needs to die

Brands such as McDonald’s try to turn death into a marketing opportunity but you can’t consume your way out of heartbreak

In Europe political attitudes to Facebook are changing

Latest fine shows tech giants increasingly seen as destructive and obstructive, whether on tax, privacy or competition law

I’m an ex-Facebook exec: don’t believe what they tell you about ads

I believe the social media giant could target ads at depressed teens and countless other demographics. But so what?

Google and Facebook bring in one-fifth of global ad revenue

Two companies increase their advertising duopoly by earning a combined $106.3bn, nearly double the figure of five years ago

Facebook told advertisers it can identify teens feeling ‘insecure’ and ‘worthless’

Leaked documents said to describe how the social network shares psychological insights on young people with advertisers

That Heineken ad: brewer tackles how to talk to your political opposite

The Worlds Apart campaign may be an antidote to the disastrous Pepsi/Kendall Jenner ad but will success on-screen mean success off?

Google ‘may build an adblocker into Chrome’

Company could announce feature to prevent intrusive online adverts within weeks, according to reports

Cara Delevingne Rimmel mascara ad banned for airbrushing

Watchdog pulls TV campaign promising ‘dangerously bold lashes’ for using inserts and redrawing to exaggerate effects

UK internet ad spend passes £10bn as Google faces YouTube row

Companies more than double spending on mobile video ads as Britons watch clips, TV and movies on smartphones

Google exec says advertising problem is ‘very, very, very small’

CBO Philipp Schindler downplays issue with extremist material, as spokesman says flagged videos received small fraction of brands’ total YouTube impressions