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Great article from The NY Times on how Democrats don't seem to have gotten the memo on online advertising. 

As a prime example, upon an onslaught of targeted online ads ("Learn the truth. Watch Now!") about former VP and Ukraine, Biden campaign proceeded to slash its online advertising budget in favor of more television ads.!!!  

Talk about clueless!!  

Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle

By Matthew Rosenberg and Kevin Roose

"That campaigns are now being fought largely online is hardly a revelation, yet only one political party seems to have gotten the message."

Democratic establishment is "too focused on winning over imagined moderates"

Read the whole article online here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/us/elections/trump-campaign-ads-democrats.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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#SocialMedia being used to manipulate public opinion in more than 70 countries says New report from Oxford Internet Institute

"social networking technologies – algorithms, automation and big data – vastly changes the scale, scope, and precision of how [mis]information is transmitted in the digital age."

• Organized social media manipulation has more than doubled since 2017
•  70 countries using computational propaganda to manipulate public opinion.
• In 45 democracies, politicians and political parties have used computational propaganda tools by amassing fake followers or spreading manipulated media to garner voter support.
• In 26 authoritarian states, government entities have used computational propaganda as a tool of information control to suppress public opinion and press freedom, discredit criticism and oppositional voices, and drown out political dissent.
• Foreign influence operations, primarily over Facebook and Twitter, have been attributed to cyber troop activities in seven countries: China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

"The manipulation of public opinion over social media remains a critical threat to democracy, as computational propaganda becomes a pervasive part of everyday life. Government agencies and political parties around the world are using social media to spread disinformation and other forms of manipulated media. Although propaganda has always been a part of politics, the wide-ranging scope of these campaigns raises critical concerns for modern democracy."

Read the excerpt for the report, 'The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation', here: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/releases/use-of-social-media-to-manipulate-public-opinion-now-a-global-problem-says-new-report/

Download the Full Report here.

Have You Seen HOSNI MUBARAK'S Facebook Page?

Have You Seen HOSNI MUBARAK'S Facebook Page?

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Facebook blow for Goldman US clients

Facebook blow for Goldman US clients

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/thecut/2011/01/18/461276/facebook-blow-for-goldman-us-clients/

Posted by Gwen Robinson on Jan 18 04:23. Goldman Sachs has scrapped an offer to clients in the US to participate in a $1.5bn investment in Facebook, dealing a blow to one of the most closely watched private financings for a US company, reports the FT. The offer will still be open to investors elsewhere but the bank said publicity over the plan threatened to put it in breach of US securities laws against the promotion of private share sales. Demand for shares in Facebook, which is considering a full initial public offering in early 2012, has soared in private markets in recent months, making Goldman’s ability to offer favoured clients the stock a coup for the bank. DealBook notes that problems with the offering may fuel recent tensions between Goldman and Facebook, and could damage the firm’s prospects of leading Facebook’s long-awaited IPO. DealJournal posts Goldman’s “sorry about that” statement.

This entry was posted by Gwen Robinson on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 at 4:23 . Tagged with Facebook, Goldman. 

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/thecut/2011/01/18/461276/facebook-blow-for-goldman-us-clients/

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