Facebook’s secret weapon in the fight against foreign meddling? Postcards

Enlarge / Mock-up of expected returns from Facebook’s postcard campaign. (credit: Alexey Nikolsky / AFP / Getty Images / Aurich Lawson) A Facebook executive has announced a new plan designed to mitigate foreign influence in political ad buys on the social media platform. It involves a technology your grandparents would recognize—postcards. The plan was announced […]

Facebook will send postcards to verify US election ad buyers

Facebook has a new yet very old solution to fighting Russian manipulation attempts during future US elections: conventional mail. Global policy program director Katie Harbath has revealed that the social network will send postcards to verify the identities and locations of anyone hoping to buy ads related to federal-level candidates. Recipients will have to enter […]

Imaginative Postcards from Beloved Pop Culture Locations

A great movie, book, or television show can make its settings seem like real places – like you could find your way around if you found yourself there, randomly wandering through Beetlejuice or The Witch, as one does. Our friends at Gallery1988 have taken that idea a step further with their new exhibition “Postcard Correspondence,” […]