Facebook accuses Signal of lying, says its ads on Instagram a ‘stunt’

New Delhi: Facebook has accused Signal of lying, after the encrypted messaging app challenged the user privacy policies of Facebook by sharing a series of ads on Instagram to showcase how the social network collects information from users and displays ads basis of those private details.

Facebook said that Signal never tried to actually run the transparent Instagram ads, reports ZDNet.

“This is a stunt by Signal, who never even tried to actually run these ads — and we didn’t shut down their ad account for trying to do so,” a company spokesperson was quoted as saying in the report on Wednesday.