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Australia's election watchdog lacks power to investigate who is paying for Facebook political ads (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/06/2019 - 06:34Investigation reveals a covert plot to control some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages, harvest Islamophobic hate for profit (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 13:21EU to investigate Google over data collection practices (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 12/02/2019 - 12:36Defiant Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook policy to allow false ads (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 12/02/2019 - 12:36'They're profiting off pain': the push to rein in the $1.2 billion prison phone industry
Two companies, Securus and GTL, control more than 70% of the market for prison calls.
Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, has launched a global action plan to save the web from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other malign forces that threaten to plunge the world into a “digital dystopia”. The Contract for the Web requires endorsing governments, companies and individuals to make concrete commitments to protect the web from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity. “If we leave the web as it is, there’s a very large number of things that will go wrong. We could end up with a digital dystopia if we don’t turn things around.