How Can an Election Be Hacked?
We hear about election hacking all the time, but amid all the noise it's easy to confuse the three distinct ways that a vote can be manipulated.
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Can the Honest Ads Act Fix Facebook?
An online consumer-protection expert breaks down the new advertising-disclosure bill working its way through Congress.
How We Give Online Advertisers the Tools to Manipulate Us
New research shows the effectiveness of aligning ads with a potential customer’s easily identified personality traits.
Do Corporations Make Any Sense?
If the old corporate goal was to claim as many assets and employees as possible, the new one is to hand production off to external vendors and contract labor.
Facebook’s Political Ad Problem Spreads to Europe
German officials are asking questions after illegal and inflammatory political ads appeared on the platform during the country's recent elections.
Facebook Will Now Prevent Advertisers From Targeting Groups That Propagate Hate Speech
The company has said it would remove all audience categories based on users' reports of their interests, education, and employment.
Art(ificial Mastery) of the Deal
Researchers at Facebook just showed the Turing Test isn't all it's cracked up to be.
How Facebook Sees the World
By acknowledging the existence of an editorial compass, the technology giant tacitly accepts its role as a de facto censorship power—and opens itself to government attack.
Another Way Facebook and Google May Be Undermining Democracy
Google and Facebook have, in recent months, belatedly began to engage in the battle against fake news. But…
Your Online Profile Photos Aren’t as Flattering as You Think
New research suggests we’re not the best judges of the impression that images of ourselves convey. By Tom…