Meta Platforms will end political, electoral, social issue advertising on its platform in the European Union in early October because of the legal uncertainties due to EU rules targeting political advertising,

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been highly critical of European rules, accusing Brussels in January of "censorship," while this week the US State Department denounced the EU's "Orwellian" regulation of social media.

According to a Reuters report, Meta Platforms will stop running political, electoral, and social issue advertisements on Facebook and Instagram across the European Union starting early October 2025. The move follows rising legal uncertainty around a new EU regulation designed to increase transparency in political advertising.