[ad_1] “I am concerned because of an issue that I raised back in 2017, and repeatedly since,” Rep. Adam Schiff said in his opening remarks. “I am concerned about whether social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and others, wittingly or otherwise, optimize for extreme content. These technologies are designed to engage users and keep […]
Category: 2020 elections
Facebook finally delivers on its promise to label ‘state-controlled’ media
[ad_1] Facebook also plans to label ads from state-controlled media outlets. In the US, Facebook will block such ads altogether “out of an “abundance of caution” — even though it admits they rarely appear. That’s part of an attempt to protect elections in 2020 from foreign influence, Facebook says. Facebook claims it worked with more […]