Exclusive: GOP-linked PR firms are using Google’s ad platform to harvest email addresses via questionable 'news' sites.
Our latest investigation with @engadget
https://t.co/TKNyqrGZlp
"More than 60 countries will hold elections in 2020. Facebook and Google will be important variables in almost all of them. The first of these elections will be in January in Taiwan, where more than 89% of adults use Facebook regularly"
Yikes.
https://t.co/BfOZlG0jDf
"Despite the climate crisis that our planet faces, Big Oil is doubling down on fossil fuels. Now, with the help of tech companies like Microsoft, oil companies are using cutting-edge technology to produce even more."
https://t.co/zV5gBD7oEC
"One transcriber working for Rev says that, for them, the recordings that graphically detail someone being abused or assaulted are the most difficult to get through."
https://t.co/KVFjGDtgNy
The WSJ's tech briefing podcast breaks down the not-so-boring-but-sounds-very-boring business of political advertising online, spend, laws and micro-targeting. Again, it *sounds* dry but it *is* very interesting.
https://t.co/bmaNK4b7i8
“We used to let gas stations pour oil down the sewer, and we let mines leave tailings on the side of the hill,” he said. “Then we realized, Wait a minute, the externalities have a very high cost, and the people who create them need to bear it.”
https://t.co/aFXztlrKob
Father of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is launching an initiative to fix the web and stop it sliding into a "digital dystopia".
https://t.co/0ct1QZ3LAI
Chance to win some useful+cool free shit? ☑️
Questionably light-hearted emoji use for serious/harrowing stories? ☑️
An extremely light-on-detail update on that video game we're building? ☑️
This week's newsletter ladies and gentlemen.
https://t.co/uvZpZHUJbi
Hundreds of fake Facebook account admins and 1,929 Facebook advertising violations only begin to tell the story of the Epoch Times-linked, pro-Trump empire known as The BL.
https://t.co/SHYdeZhmQ5
Thatcher's disastrous internet decision 🤦🏾♂️
Facebook caught cosying up with Brett Kavanaugh 🤦🏾♂️
This multi-million dollar fake news factory on Google's ad platform 🤦🏾♂️
This week's newsletter. Happy reading!
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