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Guardian US tech reporter Julia Carrie Wong spent a year analysing Trump’s Facebook campaign. She discusses how the sophisticated social media machine is targeting voters. And Leah Green reflects on the death of former Love Island presenter Caroline Flack During 2019, Donald Trump’s campaign spent nearly $20m (£15.4m) on more than 218,000 different Facebook ads. […] More
Policy change involves what Facebook calls ‘branded content’, sponsored items posted by ordinary users who are typically paid by companies Facebook decided on Friday to allow a type of paid political message that had sidestepped many of the social network’s rules governing political ads, in a reversal that highlights difficulties tech companies and regulators have […] More
President posted video of House speaker tearing State of the Union address interspersed with clips of Trump lauding honorees Facebook and Twitter have refused House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request to remove a video posted by Donald Trump that was misleadingly edited to show her repeatedly tearing a paper copy of his State of the Union […] More
CEO defended Facebook’s decision not to ban political ads and said company will ‘stand up for free expression’ ‘Powerful people are always going to have a voice,’ Zuckerberg said. ‘I feel like someone needs to stand up for giving everyone a voice.’ Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, has unveiled a […] More
