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Commission's microtargeted ads for chat control criticised

In autumn 2023 the Migration and Home Affairs department led by Commissioner Ylva Johansson ran microtargeted ads on X promoting the chat-control proposal, using data on users' political views. After a complaint by privacy group noyb, the European Data Protection Supervisor opened an inquiry and in December 2024 ruled that the campaign had broken EU data protection rules.

Ylva Johansson (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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In autumn 2023 the Migration and Home Affairs department led by Commissioner Ylva Johansson ran microtargeted ads on X promoting the chat-control proposal, using data on users' political views. After a complaint by privacy group noyb, the European Data Protection Supervisor opened an inquiry and in December 2024 ruled that the campaign had broken EU data protection rules.

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  • Ylva Johansson

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    Commission's microtargeted ads for chat control criticised. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.europarl.europa.eu — sourceeuroparl.europa.eu · verified
  2. 2.techcrunch.com — sourcetechcrunch.com · verified
  3. 3.netzpolitik.orgchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: johansson+microtarget · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Commission's microtargeted ads for chat control criticised. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/johansson-microtargeting-ads-finding-2023

https://factrail.ai/facts/johansson-microtargeting-ads-finding-2023

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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