Facebook says it is temporarily banning ads for gun accessories and military gear through next week's inauguration “out of an abundance of caution”
remove them permanently, conduct an independent investigation into how @Facebook enabled the insurrectionists and add an expert on countering extremism/domestic terrorism to your Board of Dir. https:/...
Google quietly removed at least 46 apps from the Play store belonging to iHandy, a major Chinese developer, but won't comment on the reason for the removals
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Google removed 46 Android apps from Chinese developer DO Global that were committing large-scale ad fraud; source says Google is moving to ban DO Global overall
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Google removes two apps from China's Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech from Google Play after internal investigation found they executed ad fraud via click injection
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Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers
http://blog.twitter.com/... No surprises, there are several disinformation accounts which push Jeremy Corbyn's narratives /1 Thomas Rid / @ridt : So this is fascinating and good news for researchers: ...
BuzzFeed identified 1,700+ accounts Twitter censored in specific countries at the request of governments and “trusted flaggers” like NGOs
BuzzFeed : Tweets: @ahval_en and @craigsilverman Tweets: Ahval / @ahval_en : “In Turkey, the president, the courts, and the national telecommunications authority together appear to have created a sta...
In an interview, Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is committed to helping Congressional investigators publicly release Russia-linked ads and info on user targeting
CEO Daily, Friday, 13th October Steve Kovach / Business Insider : Sheryl Sandberg got everything wrong about Facebook's role as a media company Edward Graham / Morning Consult : Congressional Black Ca...
Spokesperson says Facebook can't say yet whether Russians bought election ads in France and Germany but emphasizes company's work removing fake accounts
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