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Change historychevron_rightGoogle Adschevron_rightFeb 1, 2022

Announced end of products, services and news exemptions to Election Ads policies (postponed)

Date
Feb 1, 2022
Regions
Global
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Google planned to eliminate the worldwide exemptions that let ads for products, services and news feature candidates or officeholders without election-ads verification, with enforcement from February 15, 2022. On April 8, 2022 the update was marked temporarily postponed for technical reasons.

Listed in Google's 2022 policy change log but posted December 2, 2021; dated here by its announced month.

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