Other categories such as 'conspiracy theory' have also been removed while Facebook evaluates the list in light of recent claims relating to coronavirus on the platform.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social media network would clamp down on coronavirus misinformation posts at the beginning of March although it has continued to allow advertisers to target people using various dubious terms in the six weeks since the pledge.
According to The Markup, Facebook’s ad platform showed that 78 million Facebook users were interested in pseudoscience although it was not clear how many advertisers had actually paid for content using the keyword.
While Facebook does offer a publicly accessible library of ads run on its platform, it does not display which groups are targeted by each ad.
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