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has launched a new portal for people to explore political advertising that has run on the platform, a move they say will enhance transparency with users.The company announced on Monday that it launched , a subreddit that lists political advertising campaigns dating back to January 2019. The information about each campaign includes: targeting, impressions, and what was spent on a per-campaign basis.Reddit also said it was changing its ad policy—which already does not allow deceptive, untrue, or misleading ads, even from politicians—to require political advertisements to have comments turned on for at least 24 hours. Reddit said each political ad is manually reviewed by the company.“We hope this update will give you a chance to engage directly and transparently with political advertisers around important political issues, and provide a line of sight into the campaigns and political organizations seeking your attention,” Reddit said in its .A quick glance at the posted ads in r/RedditPoliticalAds shows that former 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) used ads on Reddit frequently, targeting communities like r/SandersForPresident, r/politics, r/WayOfTheBern, and r/DemocraticSocialism, among others.Other social media companies and tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Google have . Facebook’s in particular has for essentially allowing politicians to say whatever they want, .READ MORE:&nbsp;

has launched a new portal for people to explore political advertising that has run on the platform, a move they say will enhance transparency with users.The company announced on Monday that it launched , a subreddit that lists political advertising campaigns dating back to January 2019. The information about each campaign includes: targeting, impressions, and what was spent on a per-campaign basis.Reddit also said it was changing its ad policy—which already does not allow deceptive, untrue, or misleading ads, even from politicians—to require political advertisements to have comments turned...

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