A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
They're Blaming Amazon Instead Alison Durkee / Forbes : Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline Bernard Meyer / CyberNews : Data collection cheat sheet: how Parler, Twitter, ...
Banning TikTok from US app stores but allowing it to operate until Nov. 12 prevents TikTok from patching any security vulnerabilities found in the meantime
a move which is shortsighted, ridiculous, and likely unconstitutional. https://www.nytimes.com/... SIX / @sixiaotang : Tiktok will be fine; the no-compromise loss of WeChat access in the US is devasta...
Investigation: in 2019, Trump's marketing campaign spent ~$20M on 218K+ Facebook ads targeting conservatives with marketing ploys designed to harvest user data
A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign's sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters Tweets: @juliacarriew , @juliacarriew , @juliacarriew , @justinhendrix...
A close look at USAReally, a pro-Kremlin, pro-Trump site with overt Russian ties and frequent links on the /r/the_donald subreddit as it depicts a declining US
To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape. Tweets: @nytimes , @bystevereilly , and @jasonleopold See also Me...
Facebook removed 30+ pages run from Macedonia, many of them popular from pro-Trump “news” during election; publishers assumed they were safe after buying ads
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @niemanlab , @buzzfeedben , @rkapkap , @davidmackau , @craigsilverman , @mattmittenthal , @miriamelder , and @jimwaterson Tweets: @niemanlab : The topics of kille...