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Exclusive: GOP-linked PR firms are using Google’s ad platform to harvest email addresses via questionable 'news' sites. Our latest investigation with @engadget engadget.com/2019/11/11/goo…
White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won't act. ed.gr/b0vnc
Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio. ed.gr/b0vmy
"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. ed.gr/b0vn9
Smart CCTV networks are driving an AI-powered apartheid in South Africa. ed.gr/b0vn4
"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." ed.gr/b0von
"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." ed.gr/b0vm3
Porn, public transport and other..... dubious.... justifications for using facial recognition software. ed.gr/b0vng
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. ed.gr/b0vmt
“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.” ed.gr/b0vo4
Father of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is launching an initiative to fix the web and stop it sliding into a "digital dystopia". ed.gr/b0vnz
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. mailchi.mp/db10340ec94f/p…
It's barely one week of the UK election and the bullshit Facebook ads are already running riot. ed.gr/bz1on
Tech bros in silicon valley are dopamine fasting, whatever that means. ed.gr/bz1ov
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. ed.gr/bz1n3
General election: WhatsApp messages urge British Hindus to vote against Labour. ed.gr/bz1or
Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules according to Popular Info. ed.gr/bz1oz
Labour vows to get more tax out of Apple, Amazon and Google. ed.gr/bz1o1
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! - mailchi.mp/b9b9d78540ea/p…
'Do Not Discuss the Incident,' Facebook Told Employee Fired After Speaking About Worker Suicide. ed.gr/bz1o2
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