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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: What Priti Patel spent selling Rwanda deportations to the publicTens of thousands of pounds were spent on ads to be shown by Facebook and Instagram
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Published in: Home: OpinionCulture wars: what is identity politics?For some, it’s a left-wing adoption of neoliberalism. For others, it’s authoritarian. But it’s really just about...
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionWill Facebook respect international rights or the whims of angry rulers?A muddle of decisions indicates that Facebook and its ‘Supreme Court’ are making little progress towards a...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe US is taking on its corporate monopolists – now the rest of the world must followAs Joe Biden’s administration starts to challenge the democracy-warping powers of giant multinationals, Britain and...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsTech firms ‘facilitating censorship’ of LGBTIQ people must be held to accountStudy of six countries – from Indonesia to Russia – reveals what LGBTIQ people and rights activists face online, and...
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Published in: digitaLiberties: FeatureWhatsApp wants to share your data with Facebook. Here's why that's worryingThe messaging platform has told users to allow it to share more of their data with parent company Facebook or have...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCan Twitter and Facebook censor Trump in the name of democracy?Although we find the censorship of the still-president of the US sympathetic and fair, we must not forget that...
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionWe can’t let tech companies use algorithms to police us after COVID-19The pandemic has demonstrated the risks of relying on algorithms to remove harmful content.
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Former Vote Leave data chief accused of pro-Tory 'disinformation'Thomas Borwick, former Cambridge Analytica consultant, boasted he could use proxy groups on Facebook to 'split...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionShould Twitter, Google and Facebook be allowed to alter the rules of campaigning overnight?Platform companies are acting under pressure to tackle political advertising – but their actions may have...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFacebook buffeted by storms, but can the scrutiny help prevent dark influence on the coming UK election?UK lawmakers have been slow to act on Facebook’s influence on our democracy, though more outspoken when it comes to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFacebook and policing the war of narrativesAbdul Baset al-Sarout's death brings the Syrian war into cyberspace.
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Published in: HomeFacebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations, say insidersOn the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIs the internet to blame for the rise of authoritarianism?Three perspectives on whether the internet is having a damaging impact on democracy.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMark Zuckerberg’s dilemma – what to do with the monster he has created?Facebook seems surprised that its monopolistic platform has been weaponised by political actors. So who's going to...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsThe DUP’s Facebook ads for Brexit targeted voters outside Northern IrelandInformation released by Facebook shows the DUP said Brexit would be “better for our borders”.
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Published in: HomeTo restore trust in technology, we must go further than GDPRPrivacy controls are a step in the right direction but more must be done to tackle misinformation.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe Cam-Book gate scandal will not restore our privacy, will it?For us to care about the practices of corporations, reclaim our privacy and contest mass-surveillance we should not...
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Published in: HomeHow should we think about Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Russia and shady billionairesAn authoritarian surveillance state is being built in the US, while a massive land grab for power, by billionaires...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or Facebook – it’s “surveillance capitalism”We’ve ended up with an internet built not for us – but for corporations, political parties, and the state’s...
