Just hours before social media companies face a regulatory reckoning with Facebook’s appearance on the Hill, Twitter is taking a step to get right with Congress.Source: Twitter endorses the Honest Ads Act, a bill promoting political ad transparency...
Via the NY Times comes news that Facebook will not only support passage of the Honest Ads Act (currently pending in committee where it may stay), but will also self-regulate “issue ads.Source: (How) Will Facebook Self-Regulate “Issue Ads” Intended to Affect U.S. Elections? The Details Matter a Lot...
It's been well over three months since the City of Seattle told Facebook to hand over data on political ads that targeted this city's 2017 municipal elections.Source: Seattle Elections Watchdog Tells Facebook to Make Its Political Ad Disclosures More Accurate...
They want to be like the Koch Brothers and the Mercers for campaign tech, but much cheaper, faster and smarter — and for Democrats. Higher Ground Labs, the incubator fund that last year put $2.Source: Democrats fund start-ups to leapfrog RNC technology...
Russia never would have been able to conduct “information warfare” against the United States in the way it did in the 2016 presidential election without Facebook, Twitter and Google.Source: Will new Facebook scandal finally force tech CEOs to testify on 'information warfare'?...
Federal prosecutors have filed charges against 13 Russians who allegedly sought to "sow discord in the U.S. political system" through social media posts, ads, and videos falsely presented as the work of Americans.Source: 5 Reasons Not to Feed the Russian Troll Hysteria...
Cambridge Analytica garnered headlines across the world on Friday as Facebook formally suspended the company from its platform over allegations that it had improperly received and retained data on tens of millions of Facebook users from an academic researcher thaSource: The Problem Isn't Cambridge Analytica: It's Facebook...
The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election — but never told the states involved, according to multiple U.S. officials.Source: U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election...
Facebook’s global director of policy programs says it will start sending postcards by snail mail to verify buyers of ads related to United States elections.Source: Facebook will verify the location of US election ad buyers by mailing them postcards...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Seattle’s election authority said on Monday that Facebook Inc is in violation of a city law that requires disclosure of who buys election ads, the first attempt of its kind to regulate U.S. political ads on the internet.Source: Seattle finds Facebook in violation of city campaign finance law...
