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Google and Facebook are both considering new rules banning the micro-targeting of political ads, according to reports. Critics of political advertising online have long worried that the ability to display […]
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In some ways, the social media app TikTok couldn’t have rose to prominence at a worse moment. The platform for sharing short-form video clips is owned by the Chinese startup […]
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Politicians sometimes exaggerate the laws they’re proposing. But when they start making up new sections of a bill from whole cloth, something has gone wrong. In the case of the […]
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European Union officials are threatening to regulate how social-media platforms such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. moderate content, increasing pressure on the companies to remove bots and fake […]
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Check out Mediawell’s weekly roundup of content relating to Twitter’s newly announced political advertising ban. View excerpts and links to our selected articles here.
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Brian Fishman, who leads the effort against terrorist and hate organizations at Facebook, argues that counter-terrorism researchers need to tailor their recommendations to the corporate policymakers inside tech companies who […]
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Though criticized for their delayed reaction, the coalition of tech giants known as GIFCT began working together to curb online terrorist content in late 2016. Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google […]
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Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their […]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way since the term was coined by Professor John McCarthy at the famous Dartmouth conference in 1956. Ardent work by scientists and engineers, […]
