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1/ The #TechHearings looked at Facebook's attempts to stop election meddling – in part by making political ads more transparent.

Using our Political Ad Collector, we're publishing the interesting choices advertisers make when targeting ads to your feed.
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2/ When NYC proposed a law capping the number of @Uber cars, the ride hailing company spent $20,000 in Facebook ads to target anyone who liked Black Lives Matter.
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3/ Marsy’s Law.

The biggest political advertiser on Facebook that you may (or may not) have heard of. propub.li/2M467zv
4/ As the battle over Brett Kavanaugh's SCOTUS nomination is debated on cable news, it’s also being fought in the Facebook feeds of North Dakotans.
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5/ Facebook’s recent update to political ads has pulled back the curtain for Democratic nominee @RichCordray who runs a pretend news page called “Ohio Newswire.”
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6/ Want to find out what political advertisers are targeting you for on Facebook?

So do we.

Help us by downloading the browser extension that will track the political ads that show up in your feed. propub.li/2Qc1ers
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies on user data practices before the House Judiciary Committee. I'll be live tweeting because there's nothing I love more than Republicans wasting my tax dollars complaining about bias against them that doesn't exist! c-span.org/event/?455607/
There are also some serious concerns that I hope members ask Pichai about including data breaches, Google's operating in China, sexual harassment problems, and the radicalization hellscape that is YouTube. #techhearings
Alex Jones and Roger Stone are both at the hearing so I'm sure this won't turn into a circus at all. #techhearings
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In just fifteen minutes a full day of #techhearings begins. This morning Jack Dorsey, Sheryl Sandberg, and an empty chair (representing Google) will testify before the Senate Intel Committee. Later today Jack Dorsey will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
I'll be live-tweeting both #techhearings today. If you'd like to follow along here are some handy resources to help you get the most out of them, starting with the post I wrote previewing today's hearings for @mmfa. mediamatters.org/blog/2018/09/0…
This morning's #techhearing is on social media companies' responses to foreign influence operations. Expect it to be a more subdued affair with less partisan theater and more on-topic questions. @MarkWarner & @SenatorBurr tend to keep things on track & nonpartisan.
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Goodbye to the rest of my day. Here are all of the Russian ads.
democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/s…
One of the first more successful/costly ads, from 2015. Posts promising "updates" (including one about the Charleston shooting) seem to perform better so far. Also notice targeting- Baltimore, Ferguson, and surrounding.
Nothing like some good old patriotism to generate some clicks 🇺🇸

Just like with RT's cat and tsunami videos, this page was looking to draw people in before delivering more divisive content...

#breaking #RussianAds #Facebook #disinformation
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
FB 2018: "We learned a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us…by passing data from an app…using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government… military work around the globe." FB knew in 2015
"purpose of Kogan’s work was to develop an algorithm for the 'national profiling capacity of American citizens' as part of SCL’s work on U.S. elections, according to an internal document signed by an SCL employee describing the research"– 3/2017 report theintercept.com/2017/03/30/fac…
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Okay. So. It's time once again for me to do that thing I do: a deep dive into Trump's state of the union speech.
For new followers who've tuned in since the last time I did this, bear in mind I am not a factchecker. That's a different (though related) skill set and best done by people with the training, resources, and editorial oversight that I don't have.
What I do have is a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people who don't like long, reflective Twitter threads or believe it's possible to overthink something.
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How to watch Facebook, Twitter, and Google discussing Russian election meddling read.bi/2zaTJuL
Sen. Mark Warner says he's viewed data that Twitter bots represent 12-15% of Twitter accounts
Sen. Mark Warner: "Your companies in many ways know more about Americans than the United States government does"
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