Last month, Facebook announced that it will not limit microtargeting capabilities for political ads. Nor will it police factual accuracy of those…
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Twitter apologises for letting ads target neo-Nazis and bigots | BBC News
by Joe Tidy
January 16, 2020
Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups.…
Misinformation Speaker Series: Young Mie Kim
January 14, 2020
"Please join us for a talk by Young Mie Kim, Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, at University of…
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook’s Internal Divisions on Politics | WSJ
by Emily Glazer, Deepa Seetharaman, and Jeff Horwitz
December 17, 2019
Facebook’s senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company’s effect on U.S. politics, with…
On Digital Disinformation and Democratic Myths
December 10, 2019
What is the sound of a thousand social media bots clapping? For two years, from 2015 to 2017, the Russian…
Campaigns Say Google Ad Policy Sidesteps Problem of Disinformation | The New York Times
by Nick Corasaniti and Matthew Rosenberg
November 22, 2019
Google’s new restrictions on political advertising, following an outright ban on such ads by Twitter, amount to a one-two punch…
Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights | Amnesty International
by Amnesty International
November 22, 2019
Facebook and Google’s omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights, Amnesty International warned in…
Trolls for hire: Russia’s freelance disinformation firms offer propaganda with a professional touch | NBC News
by Ben Popken
October 2, 2019
The same kinds of digital dirty tricks used to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and beyond are now…
VVA Investigative Report: An Investigation Into Foreign Entities Who Are Targeting Troops and Veterans Online | Vietnam Veterans of America
by Kristofer Goldsmith
September 30, 2019
Vietnam Veterans of America’s (VVA) two- year investigation, beginning in August 2017, has documented persistent, pervasive, and coordinated online targeting…