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Geoffrey Fowler: Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you. (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 10/31/2019 - 11:50Showing that the U.S. won’t hold it back, China launches commercial 5G service (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/31/2019 - 06:38Facebook reports record revenue. Grew 29 percent to $17.7 billion. (Washington Post)
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Twitter to ban all political ads amid 2020 election uproar
Twitter will ban all advertisements about political candidates, elections and hot-button policy issues such as abortion and immigration, a significant shift that comes in response to growing concerns that politicians are seizing on the vast reach of social media to deceive voters ahead of the 2020 election. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said paying for political speech has the effect of “forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people.” “While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politi