Once upon a time a brand-new piece of technology appeared on the scene. One that would allow politicians to conceivably reach into every house in the nation, one with few rules on advertising or what could legally be said (this was a time before fact checkers). It was soon decided that this technology…
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Chatter #121 – Kyle Taylor On Dark Ads And The Case For Regulating Social Media
Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Kyle Walker, the founder of Fair Vote UK, was my guest on today’s show! Fair Vote UK is a campaign group dedicated to addressing a lot of issues that I describe in my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War including dark ads, censorship, echo chambers, and the…
How Dark Ads On Facebook Undermine Democracy: Part 2
We’ve been able to see just a handful of the ads that were blanketed across social media during and after the referendum campaign. Vote Leave had found their niche and they were hitting voters hard with the same lines over and over, digitally and on TV and radio. Cummings had realized there was…
Chatter #68 – Ryan Hartwig and Zach McElroy on Project Veritas and Censorship at Facebook
Ryan Hartwig and Zach McIlroy were my guests on today’s show. Both are former Facebook insiders who became whistleblowers for Project Veritas, a larger project aimed at uncovering censorship on social media platforms and fighting for freedom of speech. We had a very intriguing conversation on the practices inside Facebook, selective censorship, the…
