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Technology Amplified Disinformation, Now It Must Demonetize It
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Cameron Harris took a $5 investment and made it $22,000 in less than 3 months. No, he’s not the most impressive investor of his generation, he’s the founder of the fake news site ChristianTimesNewspaper.com. Despite voting for Trump, Cameron claims in a New York Times interview that his motivations were…
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Towards A More Transparent Regulation for Online Targeted Ads
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Mohamed Suliman is a researcher at Northeastern University Civic AI lab with a degree in engineering he is also a regular contributor to Global Voices where he writes about tech issues. Big tech companies are notoriously secretive about how they operate online advertisements. Often they release only the minimal data…
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Can Online Ads Help Prevent Violent Extremism?
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Extremist groups have a new recruiting tool: online media. Organizations including hate groups, violent jihadist groups and far-right political groups have increasingly turned to the web—and to social media, in particular—for the purposes of identifying sympathizers, distributing propaganda and recruiting new members. In response, counter-extremist campaigns have fought back using…