{"id":22803,"date":"2020-03-19T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T01:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22803"},"modified":"2020-03-19T18:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T01:19:43","slug":"facebook-bans-sanitizer-virus-test-ads-to-prevent-price-gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22803","title":{"rendered":"Facebook bans sanitizer, virus test ads to prevent price gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will ban ads for certain high-demand products during the coronavirus pandemic as a measure to protect against price inflation, a company official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The social media platform will ban ads for hand sanitizer, surface disinfecting wipes and COVID-19 test kits in ads and commerce listings, Facebook director of product management\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/skllwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshlrlmvm_kvdlvvmhmjlvfrssshtm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/skllwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshlrlmvm_kvdlvvmhmjlvfrssshtm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1584752994067000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEDL8J5kd1FHaAdFg-58SdQtOSKzA\">Rob Leathern<\/a>\u00a0tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is another step to help protect against inflated prices and predatory behavior we&#8217;re seeing,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be ramping up our automated enforcement for ads and commerce next week. If we see abuse around these products in organic posts, we&#8217;ll remove those, too,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will ban ads for certain&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22804,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}