Tag: political advertising

Twitter will no longer accept political ads; gauntlet thrown to Facebook

Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:55 pmThursday, October 31, 201915 Comments

In an implicit swipe at the FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s position on running false political ads on Facebook, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday the company would no longer accept political ads…

Facebook really is spying on you – just not through your phone’s mic

Friday, October 19, 2018 9:30 amFriday, October 19, 20188 Comments

Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online — and even offline, wandering around the physical world — it doesn’t need to hear us…

Apple launches new website devoted to privacy, showing off features of iPhones and Macs

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 5:00 pmWednesday, October 17, 20185 Comments

The feature comes as Apple contrast itself vs. companies like Facebook and Google, which rely on collecting data about their users and making it available to advertisers…

Facebook says Russian firms ‘scraped’ data, including users’ photos to build facial recognition profiles for Russian government

Monday, October 15, 2018 10:28 amMonday, October 15, 20183 Comments

Facebook removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government…

FBI investigating Facebook security breach where attackers accessed 30 million users’ personal information

Friday, October 12, 2018 6:02 pmFriday, October 12, 201812 Comments

Facebook revealed on Friday that a previously announced security breach on its platform…

Facebook discovers security breach affecting 50 million users

Friday, September 28, 2018 1:45 pmFriday, September 28, 20185 Comments

Facebook Inc. has discovered a security flaw affecting about 50 million user accounts…

Facebook is giving advertisers access to users’ shadow contact information

Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:28 pmThursday, September 27, 20186 Comments

Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor…

42% of U.S. users have ‘taken a break’ from Facebook; 28% have deleted the Facebook app in the past year

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 10:28 amWednesday, September 5, 201812 Comments

Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship…

Democratic U.S. House candidate’s Apple Watch just backfired on her

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:50 pmTuesday, April 17, 201871 Comments

Hiral Tipirneni dresses in scrubs, wraps a stethoscope around her neck, and looks seriously at medical charts…

Tim Berners-Lee lists his 3 biggest fears for the future of the web: Fake news, privacy, political advertising

Monday, March 13, 2017 3:33 pmMonday, March 13, 201733 Comments

I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information…