On May 25, the country will hold a national referendum on whether or not to repeal the 8th Amendment of its Constitution, which guarantees the unborn child the right to life. Repeal would clear the way for legislation legalizing abortion in the first trimester, subject to a 72-hour waiting period. Later-term abortions would ostensibly be limited to risks to a mother's life or health, or fatal fetal abnormalities, but pro-lifers warn that those exceptions would be defined broadly enough to authorize far more late-term abortions.

Polling has narrowed in recent months, so both sides have been highly active mobilizing voters. This week, the Save the 8th campaign launched an initiative to build pro-life support by sharing videos of 12-week-old babies in the womb on social media.

Facebook plans to monitor social media content about the referendum with a new tool and other activity, CNN reports.

The "view ads" tool shows users other content posted by the account that shares a particular advertisement or sponsored post. Facebook claims this will make it easier to distinguish posts by friends of friends from paid material. The Irish Times adds that "view ads" will only be able to reveal what other ads the account has posted, but the final version will also reveal information on those ads' funding and reach.

"Ireland will be the second and only other country that we roll out before the global deployment," Facebook vice president of global public policy John Kaplan told the Irish Parliament this week. "We hope that this will bring greater transparency to ads running in the context of the forthcoming referendum"...

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