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Campaign ads placed by AfD have been allowed to appear on Facebook and Instagram anyway, according to a [new report](https://aks3.eko.org/images/5_28_24_German_language_Meta_ads_research_FINAL.pdf) from the nonprofit advocacy organization Ekō, shared exclusively with WIRED. Researchers found 23 ads from the party that accrued 472,000 views on Facebook and Instagram and appear to violate Meta’s own policies around hate speech.
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By Vittoria Elliott
Earlier this month, a German court [ruled](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/13/court-confirms-german-intelligence-surveillance-of-extremist-afd#:~:text=The%20court%20in%20Muenster%20upheld,Nancy%20Faeser%20in%20a%20statement.) that the country’s nationalist far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), was potentially “extremist” and could warrant surveillance by the country’s intelligence apparatus.
Campaign ads placed by AfD have been allowed to appear on Facebook and Instagram anyway, according to a [new report](https://aks3.eko.org/images/5_28_24_German_language_Meta_ads_research_FINAL.pdf) from the nonprofit advocacy organization Ekō, shared exclusively with WIRED. Researchers found 23 ads from the party that accrued 472,000 views on Facebook and Instagram and appear to violate Meta’s own policies around hate speech.
Read the full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/meta-racist-ads-germany-eu-elections/](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-racist-ads-germany-eu-elections/)
Germany’s Far Right Party is hateful.
Fixed that for you.