IAB Sweden today expelled Meta from its membership after ruling that the platform's work against deceptive ads is insufficient, marking a rare trade body sanction.

Dreamdata's 2026 LinkedIn Ads Benchmarks report shows 121% ROAS, 41% budget share, and 272-day buyer journeys drawn from 66M+ B2B sessions.

Toni Schneider, True Ventures partner and Automattic founding CEO, takes over as interim CEO at Bluesky as Jay Graber shifts to Chief Innovation Officer role.

Meta submitted its third DMA compliance report on March 6, 2026, revealing WhatsApp ads rollout, a €200m fine appeal, and updated consumer profiling rules for EU users.

A San Francisco court on March 3 entered a final $50 million judgment against Meta over Facebook user data shared with third-party developers, imposing sweeping new compliance obligations lasting three years.

Meta changes click-through attribution to count only link clicks for website and in-store conversions, ending years of measurement misalignment with third-party tools like Google Analytics.

IAS expanded brand safety measurement to X profiles in January 2026, the same period X began deploying Grok AI as a pre-bid scoring engine to rebuild advertiser confidence lost since 2022.

X deploys Grok AI for brand safety scoring, claiming 99%+ safety rates and 97%+ suitability scores as the platform tries to recover $1.18B in lost ad revenue.