Rosie Sharpe / Nov. 11, 2022 Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter highlights the need for government regulation of social media companies The Digital Services Act enters into force later this month and heralds a new era for tech accountability Aug. 24, 2022 Online disinformation threatens the integrity of the Brazilian presidential election At such a critical moment for the climate and Brazilian democracy, Big Tech companies must take urgent action to tackle election-related disinformation on their platforms Ava Lee / Aug. 3, 2022 Is Facebook Putting Kenya’s Democracy At Risk? In July a Global Witness and Foxglove investigation revealed that Facebook is failing to detect hate on its platform in Kenya. Then a Kenyan Government watchdog agency announced Facebook had seven days to tackle this issue or risk being shut down Nienke Palstra / July 5, 2022 Brussels takes on Big Tech: The good, the bad and the ugly The Digital Services Act is the most sweeping set of rules to regulate tech companies anywhere in the world. Our take on what these rules do, and don’t, achieve May 27, 2022 What is climate disinformation? Climate disinformation is hindering our ability to combat the gravest threat of our time 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 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. 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 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 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? Previous Page 1 of 2 Next
