Meta was hit with a $24.7 million fine after a Washington judge found the tech giant had intentionally violated the state’s campaign finance disclosure laws. Ken Birman, professor of computer science at Cornell University, is an expert on big “cloud computing” companies such as Facebook and Google. He says claims that Meta cannot track advertisement data is peculiar and that its ad…
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On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog – or a Fake Russian Twitter Account
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Many legacy media outlets played an unwitting role in the growth of the four most successful fake Twitter accounts hosted by the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) that were created to spread disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, according to a study led by a University at Buffalo communication researcher. Russian Internet Research Agency In…
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