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Facebook’s Head of Ad Integrity Leaves Company
Facebook’s chief of advertising integrity Rob Leathern has left the company, he announced in a Twitter thread Friday. Leathern came onboard shortly after President Donald Trump took office, and some of the social media giant’s more contentious ad policies, including those regarding election and coronavirus misinformation, rolled out during his tenure.
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Facebook Keeps Taking Money To Promote Australian Anti-Vaxx Content Despite Their Ban
As the world inches closer to the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine, Facebook has yet again been caught taking money from anti-vaxx campaigners and conspiracy theorists to promote their harmful content to more of the tech giant’s users. After years of warnings that anti-vaccine campaigners were using the platform to recruit and spread their anti-science…
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Facebook and Google Extend Political Ad Bans, Due to Certain Circumstances Currently Affecting Democracy
Facebook and Google aren’t lifting their political ad bans soon, most likely not until Donald Trump sorts out a coup timeline concedes.
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Netflix’s New Free-To-Watch Gambit Comes With A Very Dumb Catch
Netflix has always stood out from many of its competitors by eschewing an ad-supported model since its inception, no matter how hard its investors begged the company to consider otherwise. They’re still very much no going that route, but a “free” version of the service exists now — sorta.