Araya Diaz/Getty Facebook will label all political ads in the UK as "political" in an effort to become more transparent about how politicians use its platform to target voters. It will also show how much political parties have spent on ads, and only accept ads from authenticated accounts. Chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer will promise the changes for May 2019 when he appears before British parliamentarians on Thursday. Schroepfer will apologise for Facebook's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw 87 million user profiles handed to the controversial political research firm. Facebook is about to become a lot more transparent about political advertising on its platform. Here's a summary of the changes:See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: Gaming while black: How racist trolls are still dominating video gamesSee Also:Intel may be flying high, but it faces plenty of challenges aheadInstagram is rolling out a feature that will let you download all of your photos and past searches in one fell swoopFacebook confirmed it has a confidential agreement with Aleksandr Kogan, the man at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica scandalSEE ALSO: Brutal stats show just how much more abuse ethnic minority politicians receive on Twitter than their white colleagues
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