A trade group representing news organizations raised concerns in a letter to Facebook Inc. that the company’s rules on political ads are overly broad and could affect their ability to promote stories on the social network.
The News Media Alliance, whose nearly 2,000 members include Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones & Co., the New York Times, the Washington Post and many small papers, say Facebook’s rules would cause advertisements that promote news stories to be lumped in with political messaging.
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