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‘Long slog’ to get ad registry ready for election, Facebook says

News | 02/25/2019 5:59 pm EST
Kevin Chan, Facebook Canada's head of public policy, in January 2017. /Photo by Andrew Meade.

OTTAWA Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said the federal government hasn’t fully owned how “significant” an undertaking it is to require social media companies to compile a registry of political ads for the purposes of transparency.

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