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Google shared today that the company’s ads team killed 3.2 billion so-called “bad ads” in 2017, an increase of 88 percent from the previous year, when the company removed 1.7 billion “bad ads.” Put another way, Google took down more than 100 bad ads per second last year. “Bad ads” consist of any advertising…Read More
A Facebook executive has published details on how much US presidential election candidates paid to reach potential voters on the social media platform in 2016. Critics say Trump was rewarded for provocative and divisive content. READ MORE: Hillary Clinton’s election blame game zeros in on Facebook Andrew Bosworth, the executive in charge of ads during […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A ton of people sought the presidency in 2016. Here’s what those people are up to now. It seems like just yesterday that the US was in the midst of the wild and unpredictable 2016 presidential election cycle. The fight featured some of the biggest names in American politics as well as […]
South Florida Sun-Sentinel/Susan Stocker via Associated Press Florida’s state social services agency investigated Nikolas Cruz in 2016 over violent social media posts. They closed the investigation after two months, determining he was a low risk. Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people when he opened fire on the high school he once attended. Florida’s state social […]
In the wake of the Mueller indictment of a Russian troll farm, any attempt to claim that the 2016 election wasn’t affected by Russian meddling is laughable. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8746154430bd3783b4668b/master/pass/Mueller-NoDenyingHacking-543827024.jpg
Cyber attacks are increasingly becoming a fact of life. North Korea attacked aerospace and telecom networks last year. Olympics officials confirmed a recent attack that took place during the opening ceremonies. While Russia denied its involvement in the devastating NotPetya attacks, the US has finally joined other countries in blaming Russia for them. Now, a […]
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On Thursday the Senate Intelligence committee released information from Facebook, Google and Twitter responding to Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. In its statement, Facebook noted that Russian “Internet Research Agency” (IRA) troll accounts set up 129 events across 12 pages, that were viewed by over 338,000 accounts, with 62,500 saying they were going. […]
Twitter Twitter’s internal review of the activity on its platform during the 2016 US presidential election led to the identification and suspension of accounts that were “potentially connected to a propaganda effort by a Russian government-linked organization,” according to a blog post from the company. Twitter identified an organization it said took park in propaganda […]
