Advertising Platforms Are Split Over If and How to Handle Political Ads Sep 29, 2020 Last fall, a full year before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, major social media platforms were already debating whether they should take…
Tech News update Reddit will now publicly track political ad spending on its platform Apr 14, 2020 Reddit is launching a new subreddit that will list all political ad campaigns that have run on the site since January 1st, 2019, the company…
Cyber Security Ransomware hits TV search engine popular among political campaigns Feb 1, 2020 One of this year’s first hacks to affect the 2020 US presidential election happened Thursday. TVEyes, a broadcast television search engine used by…
Cyber Security Cloudflare offers free web protection for political campaigns Jan 20, 2020 Political campaigns are prime targets for hackers, but most of them don’t have the kind of cybersecurity protection they need. To help fix this…
Tech News update Why Tech Platforms Have a Responsibility to Reel In Political Ads Dec 14, 2019 It’s hard to recall a more fateful election in the U.K. since the one post-World War II. Yesterday’s election is one where the outcome will have…
Tech News update Google to crack down on political ads to ‘improve voter confidence’ Nov 22, 2019 Google has said it will limit targeted political ads ahead of the UK and US elections. Google will no longer allow voters to be targeted by…
Marketing Google, Amazon to face new antitrust inquiries in changed political climate Jun 3, 2019 After almost two years of investigation and intense lobbying, the FTC closed its antitrust investigation of Google in January 2013. Google made some…
Designing Mozilla & Facebook are fighting over political manipulation Feb 1, 2019 Facebook continues to attract heat over its lack of transparency regarding political ads on the platform. Mozilla has just joined the activist…
Tech and Gadget Facebook must do more to identify political advertisers Gazette-Mail | Social Media Nov 5, 2018 Who paid for ads on Facebook smearing Jennifer Wexton, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Virginia’s 10th District, as an “evil socialist”?…
Social Media Facebook keeps fumbling political ads | Social Media Nov 5, 2018 Dana Hopkins felt like she was in an “endless loop” with Facebook. The frustration began in September when she purchased an ad on the social network…