Investigation does little to prove wrongdoing on the part of Facebook in political advertising; Google announces another app store change.
Last week, Al Jazeera published a four-part series, investigated and written by The Reporters’ Collective, an Indian non-profit media organization, and ad.watch, which researches political ads. The broader theme of the series was to assess the influence of Facebook on Indian elections by investigating hundreds of thousands of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram.
We have read and re-read the series and talked to people in and around the tech ecosystem. And the consensus is that while the year-long investigation touches upon a number of important points, several of the conclusions drawn belie an understanding of how Facebook advertising and …
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