Worth reading: this Wired article that discusses the potential impact of banning political ads on social media. Political Ads serve as entry point to phony astroturf communities. For example, the now infamous Internet Research Agency (IRA for short) purchased only 3400 Facebook and Instagram ads. Compare this to the over 61500 Facebook posts, 116000 Instagram […]
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The End of Political Advertising on Social Media?
Twitter has announced to block all political advertising with November. Although it is still unclear how this is implemented in practice and what qualifies as a political advertising, one thing is clear: the times when political parties have simply bought advertising on social media sites are probably over. This also because of Cambridge Analytica, that […]
The Great Hack review – searing exposé of the Cambridge Analytica scandal – The Guardian
The Guardian review of the new Nextflix documentary “The Great Hack“. Our recommendation? Watch it. It’s a must see. Source: The Great Hack review – searing exposé of the Cambridge Analytica scandal | Film | The Guardian Photo by Tracy Le Blanc from Pexels
How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem – The Verge
After the neo nazi network Gab migrated to Mastodon, the alternative social media network tries to deal with internet’s Nazi problem head-on. The distributed nature of the network (federation) makes it almost impossible to respond with a single strategy. Instead, individual instances as the nodes of the network are called, have taken different measures. For example. […]