Facebook blocks tools that collect information from political announcements

Elections are approaching in Europe and tempers are heated with respect to fake news or false news. Now activists have denounced that Facebook has blocked access to information about the origin of the ads politicians that appear in this social network.

The tools created to monitor the publication of this type of ads are WhoTargetsMe and ProPublica. This transparency exercise is carried out from the United Kingdom and the United States. However, in the last hours Facebook has implemented a series of changes through the plugins (or what is the same, browser extensions) third-party. What has prevented access to this data.