When Meta Platforms META0.32%increase; green up pointing triangle Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg unveiled sweeping changes this month to loosen the company’s restrictions on speech, he talked ...

“For the better part of a decade, the dialogue between Meta and Madison Avenue has moved in one direction: The company pledged to do more and more to combat hate speech and misinformation on Facebook ...

Meta’s shift is a clear signal to companies that “brand safety”—the practice of ensuring that ads don’t appear near unsuitable or controversial content—is in retrenchment. The practice ...