News Item Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp | WSJ By Jeff Horwitz and Kirsten Grind on January 16, 2020
News Item Who is right about political ads, Twitter or Facebook? | Columbia Journalism Review By Mathew Ingram on January 16, 2020
News Item Facebook won’t limit political ad targeting or stop false claims under new ad rules | The Washington Post By Tony Romm, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Craig Timberg on January 9, 2020
News Item Facebook bans deepfake videos ahead of the 2020 election | The Verge By Makena Kelly on January 7, 2020 Algorithms and Automation
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News Item #OperationFFS: Fake Face Swarm | Graphika By Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib, L. Tamora, Kate Johnson, Ian Smith from Graphika; Esteban Ponce de León Rosas, Kanishk Karan, Eto Budziashvili, Alyssa Kann, & Max Rizzuto on December 20, 2019
News Item Facebook Discovers Fakes That Mark New Step for Disinformation | The New York Times By Davey Alba on December 20, 2019
News Item Facebook says California’s new privacy law doesn’t apply to its trackers. These lawyers disagree. | Vox By Sara Morrison on December 17, 2019 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook’s Internal Divisions on Politics | WSJ By Emily Glazer, Deepa Seetharaman, and Jeff Horwitz on December 17, 2019 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item How Facebook’s Political Ad System Is Designed to Polarize | WIRED By Gilad Edelman on December 13, 2019