‘A Click Farm in Asia Where Low Paid Workers Are Used to Inflate Video Views and Trick Advertisers’
A long-circulating image of one woman and dozens of iPhones was shared to Reddit in April 2021, purportedly showing a click farm.
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Academic’s Work Covering COVID-19 Mistakenly Marked as ‘Spam’ by Facebook
Dr. Amber Schmidtke’s newsletter reports on the pandemic’s path through Georgia in 2020.
‘Unprofessional Hairstyles for Men or Women’ Versus ‘Professional Hairstyles for Men or Women’ Google Image Results
Amidst widespread protests against racism in June 2020, social media discourse involved Google’s search results for “unprofessional hairstyles” versus “professional hairstyles.”
Facebook Claims We’re ‘Clickbait.’ And It Won’t Explain Why.
The platform uses an opaque process to determine which sites have less reach there — and they’re not revealing anything about it.
‘This Isn’t About Free Expression’: Twitter Chief Dorsey Announces Ban on Political Ads
The policy is expected to go into effect in November 2019.
Is Twitter Withholding a ‘Nazi-Hunting’ Algorithm for Fear of Inadvertently Banning Republican Lawmakers?
On April 25 2019, a Twitter user posted a claim that the social media platform possessed a “Nazi-hunting” algorithm, but opted not to employ it specifically because it would also filter the tweets or accounts of some Republican lawmakers: In a subsequent tweet, Allen cited Jewish Daily Forward as a source for the information, but the …