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The Mozilla Foundation and a group of rights groups and non-profits have penned an open letter to Facebook and Google urging them to halt political advertising until after the upcoming UK General Election due to concerns about disinformation, lack of transparency and the data that is being used to target these ads. What is your opinion on this? We'd love to have a discussion. Learn more: . The letter argued that there won’t be time in the current parliament for the urgent legislation on political ads that the UK Electoral Commission, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the cross-party DCMS Select Committee have called for. “This legislative blackspot is particularly concerning in light of Facebook’s recent policies to allow politicians to openly publish disinformation through ads. Equally concerning is the lack of transparency as to what data is being used to target ads, and how such ads are being targeted,” the letter continued. The link for this article located at InfoSecurity is no longer available. . Fears escalate regarding electoral campaigns as Mozilla calls for a halt before UK voting; scrutiny of data use and clarity in advertising techniques arises.. Mozilla Foundation, Political Advertising, Election Concerns, Media Accountability, Data Targeting. . Brittany Day
Heading into 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director says overhyped concern about election security is a problem, while election officials say they reap the benefits of improved communications. Learn more in a great CSO article: . Given the too-late realization that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election through massive disinformation campaigns and -- as the Mueller report most recently documented with a few new twists -- actual efforts to hack into state elections systems, it’s no surprise that election security under the rubric of “Protect 2020” was a key theme running throughout the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) second annual Cybersecurity Summit. Even so, CISA Director Christopher Krebs kicked off the summit by cautioning against the kind of fearful language and overwrought concerns currently surrounding the topic of election security. “We've got to be more straightforward, more measured, more reasonable in how we talk about things. Election security is a great example. Are there true, absolute, fundamental risks in the infrastructure? Yes, but we have to take the hysteria out of the conversation because ultimately what we do is we drive broader voter confidence down,” he said. . Given the too-late realization that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election through mass. heading, cybersecurity, infrastructure, security, agency, director, overhyped. . Brittany Day
Facebook's attempt to thwart disinformation campaigns has typically focused on Russia and other hostile countries, but it's now grappling with that problem on its home soil. The site has confirmed to the Washington Post that it suspended five accounts for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" during the 2017 Alabama special election for the Senate, including the CEO of social media research company New Knowledge.. The suspensions came after Morgan acknowledged that he'd created a deceptive Facebook page aimed at conservatives, and had bought retweets on Twitter. Morgan argued that this was part of a research effort to see how online misinformation spread rather than a conscious effort to skew the election, but Facebook clearly didn't see it that way. It came alongside a larger internet-based effort to attack Republican controversial candidate Roy Moore by backing a write-in candidate and falsely claiming that Twitter bots were fueling Moore's support. The link for this article located at Engadget is no longer available. . Twitter halts profiles linked to false narratives amid the Georgia gubernatorial race, refining its operational protocols.. Disinformation Campaigns, Facebook Suspensions, Social Media Research, Alabama Elections. . Brittany Day
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