In advance of the US election last year, a crew of researchers from New York University’s engineering school released a challenge to collect additional info on political adverts. In particular, the crew wanted to know how political advertisers decide on the demographic their adverts focus on and really don’t focus […]
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Researchers: Facebook’s ad transparency tools are ‘easy to evade’
In a new paper out of New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, researchers found that thousands of advertisers were able to run more than 357,000 political ads without disclosing who was behind them. The researchers, Laura Edelson, Tobias Lauinger and Damon McCoy, studied the company’s Ad Library for more […]