Show threadCory DoctorowJun 15, 2023

Facebook did a *terrible* job at this, with huge slices of its political ads never landing in its transparency portal. We know this because independent researchers at NYU's engineering school built an independent, crowdsourced tracker called #AdObserver, which scraped all the ads volunteers saw and uploaded them to a portal called #AdObservatory.

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Jade VrielinkFeb 20, 2023
Interesting read on automatically identifying the topics of political ads! #adobservatory #c4d #nlp https://medium.com/cybersecurity-for-democracy/lab-notebook-improving-topic-modeling-for-digital-political-ads-15e5adf5d6a
Lab notebook: improving topic modeling for digital political ads

Topic modeling is an essential tool for surfacing themes and patterns in the flood of online political advertising reaching people across the globe every day. At NYU Cybersecurity for Democracy…

Cybersecurity for Democracy
NYU cyber4democracyFeb 8, 2023
Lab notebook: we're working on better ways to automatically find topics in digital political ads. Austin Botelho explains how. #adobservatory #nlp #politicalads #machinelearning https://medium.com/cybersecurity-for-democracy/lab-notebook-improving-topic-modeling-for-digital-political-ads-15e5adf5d6a
Lab notebook: improving topic modeling for digital political ads

Topic modeling is an essential tool for surfacing themes and patterns in the flood of online political advertising reaching people across the globe every day. At NYU Cybersecurity for Democracy…

Cybersecurity for Democracy
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​Aug 14, 2021

It Wasn't Me, It Was My Dog

Bob talks with Princeton scholar Orestis Papakyriakopoulos about the social media titan’s latest assault on transparency, and the all-too-familiar blame-shifting that followed it. That has become standard operating procedure from a company Bob describes as “amoral, except when it’s immoral.”

https://www.booksmartstudios.org/p/bully-pulpit-ep-4-it-wasnt-me-it

#BullyPulpit #BobGarfield #Facebook #AdObservatory #podcast

It Wasn't Me. It Was My Dog.

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