Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon
even a “Trump resistance” score. Yes, you too may have a “QAnon Believer” score. https://www.nytimes.com/... Julia Rosen / @juliarosen : The one when the NYT discovers models and s...
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel
This Privacy Policy explains how Stardust App LLC. Tweets: @motherboard : Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple's top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It's also...
Stardust's privacy policy said it may share “anonymized, encrypted” data to third parties “whether or not legally required”, before being changed after pushback
Biden administration is working with Gen Z For Change, a nonprofit advocacy group, to brief top TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine
On Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding in Ukraine.
Investigation finds a campaign coordinated in a secret Telegram channel to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives
An internal September 2018 Facebook memo found ~40% of traffic to Pages went to those with plagiarized or recycled content
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @learmonth , @danieldrepper , @ericgarland , @epro , @arpcomics , @mattrosoff , @jeffhorwitz , @jason_kint , @jason_kint , and @jason_kint Tweets: Mi...
Facebook announces Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting space with avatars, spatial audio, a whiteboard, and more, in beta on Oculus Quest 2
It wasn't long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. Source: Oculus .
Intel details Bleep, which uses AI to redact audio when it detects “hate speech” and lets users toggle how much they want to hear
But On A Sliding Scale James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Intel's new hate speech-purging AI Bleep comes under criticism Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net : Intel's AI-powered Bleep tech le...
How Phantom Secure, which started as a privacy-focused phone company in Canada, became a network for the Sinaloa Cartel before being shut down by the FBI
flood the market and figure out laws later. Then the FBI investigated him. Based on Phantom sources, internal docs, FBI files, years of reporting, this is “The Network” https://www...
Leaked notes from an internal meeting attended by Jeff Bezos reveal Amazon execs discussed a plan to smear fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls
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Facebook says it will invest $100M to support the news industry during COVID-19: $25M in emergency funding for local news and $75M in additional marketing spend
children are using Facebook Messenger Kids to deal with coronavirus isolation. Kids are getting a crash course on texting and social media with “technology on training wheels. http...
Facebook says it will invest $100M to support the news industry during COVID-19: $25M in emergency funding for local news and $75M in additional marketing spend
With grants and marketing spending, the social media giant hopes to support outlets doing essential local reporting but struggling with a drop in advertising.
A loophole in Google's political ads policy, which lets advertisers buy spots using their own targeting data, can let campaigns get around microtargeting limits
yet no one knows what policies the ads violated. Lack of transparency & bias against conservatives is why the American people don't trust #BigTech. https://www.cbsnews.com/... Mich...
Gab experienced a huge growth spurt in H1 2019 as SimilarWeb data shows its traffic between January and July grew almost 200% and unique visitors are up 180%
and that's before 8chan shut down @daithaigilbert https://www.vice.com/... via @vice David Gilbert / @daithaigilbert : Far right social media is seen by many as a fringe business, ...
Gab experienced a huge growth spurt in H1 2019 as SimilarWeb data shows its traffic between January and July grew almost 200% and unique visitors are up 180%
Gab has experienced a huge growth spurt in the first half of 2019, a worrying sign of the spread of hateful ideologies and radicalization online. Tweets: @learmonth and @daithaigil...