Meta
· Meta Special Ad Category Requirements
This provision operationally restricts the audience segmentation tools available to advertisers in protected-class-sensitive verticals, implementing a platform-level control intended to prevent targeting configurations that could function as proxies for race, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, disability, or other protected characteristics under applicable civil rights law.
LinkedIn
· LinkedIn Advertising Policies
This provision extends the non-discrimination obligation to the full scope of ad content and targeting, and specifically references the legally sensitive advertising categories of housing, credit, and employment, where anti-discrimination enforcement by regulatory authorities has been active across multiple jurisdictions.
Meta
· Meta Special Ad Category Requirements
This provision defines the scope of the Employment Special Ad Category and establishes that the mandatory designation applies not only to direct job listings but also to internship opportunities and professional training or certification programmes. Recruitment platforms, staffing agencies, and corporate talent acquisition advertisers must evaluate their campaign portfolios against this definition.
Meta
· Meta Special Ad Category Requirements
This provision establishes a dedicated Special Ad Category for financial products and services, including cryptocurrency and complex derivatives, which carries its own targeting restrictions separate from the Credit category. Financial services advertisers offering investment products, crypto assets, or CFDs must apply this designation, and the inclusion of cryptocurrency and CFDs reflects the heightened regulatory scrutiny these products face across multiple jurisdictions.
Meta
· Meta Special Ad Category Requirements
This provision defines the scope of the political advertising category on Meta platforms, establishing that campaigns related to voter registration, political issues, and ballot measures, in addition to direct candidate and party advertising, require the designation. Political campaigns, advocacy organizations, and civic engagement advertisers must evaluate their campaign portfolios against this definition.
This provision establishes categorical prohibitions on sensitive-attribute targeting that interact with GDPR special category data restrictions and FTC guidance on sensitive data in advertising, and places affirmative obligations on advertisers not to import audience data based on these attributes.
Meta
· Meta Special Ad Category Requirements
This provision defines the scope of the Credit Special Ad Category, establishing that a broad range of consumer and commercial lending products trigger the mandatory designation. Financial services advertisers must assess whether their specific product types fall within this definition to maintain compliance with both Meta's policy and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
Meta
· Meta Special Ad Category Requirements
This provision operationally defines the scope of the Housing Special Ad Category, establishing which product and service types trigger the mandatory designation and associated targeting restrictions. Real estate, mortgage, insurance, and home services advertisers must evaluate whether their campaigns fall within this definition to maintain compliance with both Meta's policy and applicable fair housing law.
LinkedIn
· LinkedIn Advertising Policies
This provision requires advertisers to audit any audience segments, custom audiences, or third-party data sets used in LinkedIn campaigns to confirm they do not incorporate these prohibited categories. Because the prohibition extends to categories as defined by applicable law, the operational scope may vary across jurisdictions, including GDPR special categories in the EU and state-level sensitive data definitions in the US.
This provision places affirmative compliance responsibility on advertisers to configure audience targeting to exclude minors from campaigns for age-restricted products. Failure to implement appropriate targeting parameters may constitute a policy violation triggering ad removal or account action.
This provision restricts the use of sensitive data categories for ad targeting, which intersects with GDPR Article 9 special category data protections in the EU and similar frameworks in other jurisdictions; advertisers using audience segmentation tools must verify that their targeting configurations do not rely on prohibited sensitive attributes.
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