By John McCarthy

Facebook is restricting advertising submitted to its network by illegal streaming services and devices in a move that will placate broadcasters and content creators.

The social network told The Drum it is taking steps to ban advertising of unauthorised or illegal streaming devices in an attempt to cut out piracy.

Facebook will manually search and remove ads that fail to live up to the new standard but that from next week the process will be automated, whereupon a machine will be largely responsible for identifying and barring those it deems bad players in the space.

The crackdown will also restrict Read full story ›

Source: The Drum