Facebook fails again to detect hate speech in ads
The test couldn't have been much easier—and Facebook still failed.
Jun 9, 2022
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Google, Facebook at center of escalating political-ad tension
Facebook Inc. and Google were drawn into an escalating battle of wills Wednesday over the use of political advertising on social media.
Nov 21, 2019
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Upbeat quarterly update lifts Twitter shares
Twitter on Thursday posted better-than-expected results for the recently ended quarter with gains in revenue, profit and its user base, sparking a rally in shares for the messaging platform.
Jul 22, 2021
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The pressure is now on Facebook to ban political ads, too
Twitter's ban on political advertising is ratcheting up pressure on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to follow suit. But so far, that doesn't appear likely to happen.
Oct 31, 2019
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How AI could take over elections—and undermine democracy
Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways?
Jun 5, 2023
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On TV, political ads are regulated—but online, anything goes
With the 2020 election just a year away, Facebook is under fire from presidential candidates, lawmakers, civil rights groups and even its own employees to provide more transparency on political ads and potentially stop running ...
Nov 22, 2019
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The European Union expands digital crackdown on toxic content, dodgy goods to all online platforms
The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc, in the next phase of its crackdown on toxic social media content and dodgy ecommerce products that began ...
Feb 16, 2024
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Opportunistic networks for collaborative editing
Opportunistic networks are ad hoc networks that allow connectivity between users where conventional network infrastructure may not be present, allowing people to work together over the OppNet and share data. Writing in the ...
Mar 2, 2022
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Technique to automatically discover simulation configurations for behaviors hard to test
A research team led by Fuyuki Ishikawa at the National Institute of Informatics (NII, Japan) has developed a technique to search automatically for simulation configurations that test various behaviors of automated driving ...
May 3, 2021
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Q&A: Researchers click ads on 200 news sites to track misinformation
With the election season ramping up, political ads are being splashed across the web. But in the age of misinformation, how can news consumers tell if the ads they're seeing are legitimate?
Sep 29, 2020
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