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2025 candidates use news-like Facebook pages to run millions of pesos in ads to influence voters

Summary by pcij.org
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has identified over a hundred Facebook pages presenting themselves as media outlets but are actually running political ads for national and local candidates in the 2025 elections. These pages have been paying Meta to boost Facebook posts that appear to promote local and national candidates or attack their rivals. From January to March 2025, the pages identified by PCIJ collectively paid o…
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pcij.org broke the news in on Sunday, May 11, 2025.
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