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The weirdly specific filters campaigns are using to micro-target you | MIT Technology Review
by Tate Ryan-Mosley
3 days ago
The NYU Ad Observatory released new data this week about the inputs the Trump and Biden campaigns are using to…
To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics | OneZero
by Joanne McNeil
6 days ago
Hardly a week goes by without another Facebook scandal. Frustration with Facebook and criticism of it — even despair over…
On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016 | The New York Times
by Davey Alba
October 14, 2020
During the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms to spread disinformation to…
Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks | Reuters
by Jack Stubbs & Christopher Bing
October 12, 2020
Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Thursday they had taken down more than a dozen disinformation networks used by…
Crowds of regular people are as good at moderating fake news on Facebook as professional fact-checkers | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Laura Hazard Owen
October 9, 2020
Facebook’s fact-checking program relies on third-party fact-checking and news organizations to help weed out fake and misleading news on the…
Facebook to pause all political advertising—after the election | Ars Technica
by Kate Cox
October 9, 2020
It seems fair to say that, here in the United States, this is an election season unlike any other, with…
Facebook Political Advertising Transparency Report | Illuminating
by Sarah E. Bolden, Dr. Brian McKernan, and Dr. Jennifer Stromer-Galley
October 7, 2020
Campaign advertising is predicted to break spending records this election cycle. Online, advertisers have already spent over $605 million running…
Facebook says it may quit Europe over ban on sharing data with US | The Guardian
by Alex Hern
September 23, 2020
Facebook has warned that it may pull out of Europe if the Irish data protection commissioner enforces a ban on…
Covid-related misinformation videos spread primarily through Facebook, as its fact-checkers fail to spot false information, finds new Oxford study | Oxford Internet Institute
by Aleksi Knuutila, Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Hubert Au, Jonathan Bright, Rasmus Nielsen & Philip N. Howard
September 23, 2020
In a new study by the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford analysis shows that Covid related misinformation videos primarily…