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Technology|Twitter Stock Plunges After Earnings Are Worse Than ExpectedTwitter had forecast that third quarter revenue growth would lag the first two quarters, partly because of the ending of some older ad formats.Credit…Richard Drew/Associated PressTwitter posted worse-than-expected third quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, which the company attributed to advertising problems that included product bugs and…
Submit campaign ads to fact checking, limit microtargeting, cap spending, observe silence periods or at least warn users. These are the solutions Facebook employees put forward in an open letter pleading with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leadership to address misinformation in political ads. The letter, obtained by The New York Times’ Mike Isaac, insists…
Technology|Twitter Stock Plunges After Earnings Are Worse Than ExpectedTwitter had forecast that third quarter revenue growth would lag the first two quarters, partly because of the ending of some older ad formats.Credit…Richard Drew/Associated PressTwitter posted worse-than-expected third quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, which the company attributed to advertising problems that included product bugs and…
Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we don’t. Not only are candidates dishonest, but voters aren’t educated, and the media isn’t objective. And now, hyperlinks turn lies into donations and donations into louder lies. The checks don’t balance. What we face is a self-reinforcing disinformation dystopia. That’s…
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. New Facebook features fight election lies everywhere but ads Facebook made a slew of announcements designed to stop 2020 election interference…
Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign sent requests to Google, Facebook, and Twitter this week asking the companies to remove ads produced by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, arguing that the ads make false allegations. All three companies denied the request, explaining that the ads don’t violate their policies—but Facebook’s response was particularly confounding. The…
When it comes to campaign ads on Facebook, you can lie or be racist—but don’t you dare cuss or stick a button in the ad. In the first half of October, Facebook has removed over 160 ads from the Biden, Warren, Sanders, Steyer, and Trump campaigns but for reasons that mostly pertain to design, according…
In the letter, obtained by The New York Times, the employees argue that allowing misinformation to run could increase distrust in Facebook and undermine Facebook’s integrity. They recommend six ways to remedy the situation, including holding political ads to the same standards as other ads, restricting political ad targeting and clearer policies in general.As the…
As of this week, Facebook will no longer use the word “undesirable” in the rejection messages it sends to potential advertisers. The change comes after reporting from The Verge in September and continued pressure from Facebook and Instagram’s body and skin positivity communities regarding the issue. Facebook used the word when rejecting ads that featured…
Folks, I never thought I’d see the day any Republican, let alone Lindsey Graham, said they believed in the Green New Deal. But on Friday, I heard his voice utter those exact words in a Facebook ad.“Simply put, we believe in the Green New Deal,” Graham intoned as string music swelled. There’s just one tiny…
Image: Mario Tama / Getty – composite by mashable By Nicole Gallucci2019-10-12 15:54:20 UTC Elizabeth Warren is actively trying to raise awareness about Facebook’s problematic ad policy ahead of the 2020 election, and she’s getting especially creative with her tactics. The Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate recently invested in a series of Facebook ads…
As part of the election efforts, Facebook is launching Facebook Protect, additional security measures for accounts that may face threats during an election, including candidates, elected officials and staff. Participants will have to use two-factor authentication, and their accounts will be monitored for hacking.To make Pages more transparent, Facebook is adding info on who’s behind…
Heaven forbid a political candidate’s Facebook account gets hacked. They might spread disinformation…like they’re already allowed to do in Facebook ads… Today Facebook made a slew of announcements designed to stop 2020 election interference. “The bottom line here is that elections have changed significantly since 2016,” and so has Facebook in response, CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants to know what President Donald Trump and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about during their Oval Office meeting last month. Warren, who’s leading the Democratic race along with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, even suggested in a series of tweets Monday night that Facebook may have changed one of…
Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential campaign sent Facebook a letter about a false video ad that a super PAC ran on the social network.The campaign of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. noted in a letter to Facebook that a false ad had been placed by a super PAC, not by another political leader.Credit…Scott…
President Donald Trump’s official Facebook page has been running a series of ads that feature an anti-Native American slur, according to the social media company’s archive of political ads. Trump can be heard referring to Senator Elizabeth Warren by the name “Pocahontas” in the ad, which started running on October 11.President Trump has repeatedly called…
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is using copyrighted music in its latest Facebook ads—music that it didn’t pay for, according to the artist’s record label, which told Gizmodo the Trump campaign never obtained permission to use the song.Over this past weekend, the Trump campaign started running Facebook ads to attack Democratic presidential candidate Senator Cory…
