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  • May 27, 2022

    What is climate disinformation?

    Climate disinformation is hindering our ability to combat the gravest threat of our time

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  • Nienke Palstra / Sept. 21, 2021

    Spotlight on Big Tech’s lobbying in Brussels

    We've launched a new Twitter bot, @EUTechWatch, to monitor Big Tech’s access to EU officials

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  • April 15, 2021

    Do people really want personalised ads online?

    Our new polling of social media users in Germany and France reveals people are uneasy about the way they are profiled and targeted with ads.

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  • Naomi Hirst / Feb. 5, 2021

    One month on from the insurrection at the Capitol, our view on how to redeem social media

    The online repercussions of the US Capitol riots put the power and reach of Big Tech in the spotlight. We now need action to tackle the platforms' role in enabling political division and extremism

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  • Rosie Sharpe & Sam Leon / Nov. 30, 2020

    Facebook banned new political ads in the week before the US election. We took a closer look

    What effect did the ban on new political ads actually have in the lead up to the election? The short answer suggested by our analysis: hardly any at all

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  • Sam Leon & Rosie Sharpe / Nov. 10, 2020

    Who micro-targeted political ads more - the Trump or Biden campaign?

    We believe that targeting online political ads to small groups of people harms democracy. So we wondered how the Trump and Biden campaigns had been targeting their ads on Facebook during the 2020 presidential election. Do they predominantly target ads to a wide group of people or to lots of narrow groups of people?

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  • Nienke Palstra / July 30, 2020

    Who runs the world... Big Tech?

    Yesterday’s US House Judiciary hearing into the dominance of the four most powerful tech companies in the world came at a pivotal moment. Never before have we seen such huge power of ‘Big Tech’, in terms of their reach, wealth and market dominance

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