This article highlights what we know about the empirical effects of data-campaigning in political campaigns and how those findings fail to live up to claims about its power.
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Personalised political messaging undermines voter autonomy and the electoral process. Use of voter analytics for political communication must be regulated.
This paper examines how Google Search ranked 29 junk news domains between 2016 and 2019, finding that SEO — rather than paid advertising — is the most important strategy for generating discoverability via Google Search. Google has taken several steps to combat the spread of disinformation on Search, and these strategies have been largely
Will the same cross-device technologies that track our journeys through the commercial marketplace now follow us into the polling booth?
This paper shows how platforms are transient in the policies, procedures, and affordances and details the implications for politics.
Data protection
Legal battle over online behavioural advertising widening
Polish digital rights organisation Panoptykon Foundation filed complaints against Google and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Responses were fired quickly. Here's the reaction to the responses.
The countering of terrorism propaganda online, through private companies, may little by little kill our right to freedom of expression.
Political micro-targeting
Is political micro-targeting hijacking European democracy?
A short Q&A with researchers Tom Dobber and Natali Helberger.
Digital economy
The clash between internet freedom and the need to tax
Much of our economy is moving online, but who will pay taxes, when virtual is tax exempted or when only some regions earn from the digital businesses lured by nice lax tax regulation or otherwise. Read up on how the struggle for tax and data are intertwined.
The District Court of Munich ruled on February 25 that YouTube cannot blame German royalty collecting society GEMA for content blocked on its platform. The Google subsidiary, according to the Chamber, has violated the German Act on unfair competition by posting the well-known notices “Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because
