Signal Vs Facebook In Complicated Claim And Counter Claim. Instagram Also Involved Signal Vs Facebook In Complicated Claim And Counter Claim. Instagram Also Involved Signal created ads that would "show you the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to." Signal says its ads targeting highly-specific user data were banned by Facebook. Signal, a privacy-positive messaging platform, has said that Facebook banned a series of ads that it tried to run on Instagram - a claim that Facebook has dismissed. The ads were meant to show how much data Instagram and its parent company Facebook collect from users. In a blog post published Tuesday, Signal said that Facebook banned them from its ad platform for the string of ads that used highly targeted data to "show you the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to."