{"id":35099,"date":"2017-09-12T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35099"},"modified":"2017-09-12T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:24:00","slug":"the-facts-of-life-how-to-investigate-online-political-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35099","title":{"rendered":"The Facts of Life: how to investigate online political ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Help Us Monitor Political Ads Online \u2014 ProPublica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

A terrific plan from ProPublica. A central excerpt that’ll tell us what they’re doing and how we can (and must) participate:<\/p>\n

The nature of online advertising is such that ads appear on people\u2019s screens for just a few hours, and are limited to the audience that the advertiser has chosen. So, for example, if an advertiser micro-targets a group such as 40-year-old female motorcyclists in Nashville, Tennessee, (Facebook audience estimate: 1,300 people) with a misleading ad, it\u2019s unlikely anyone other than the bikers will ever see those ads. Yesterday, 10 months after Trump was elected, Facebook officials acknowledged discovering that a Russian \u201ctroll farm\u201d paid $100,000 during the campaign to place political ads on issues such as gun rights and immigration, The Washington Post reported<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

With online ads, \u201cyou can go as narrow as you want, as false as you want and there is no accountability,\u201d said Craig Aaron, president and CEO of Free Press, a public interest media and technology advocacy group.<\/em><\/p>\n

ProPublica wants to change that. Today we are launching a crowdsourcing tool that will gather political ads from Facebook, the biggest online platform for political discourse. We\u2019re calling it the Political Ad Collector \u2014 or PAC, in a nod to the Political Action Committees that fund many of today\u2019s political ads.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m not on Facebook often and never click on political whatevers–ads? I get my political news from newspapers.<\/a><\/p>\n

But if you see this stuff on Facebook, connect with ProPublica and tell them. You’ll be helping all of us stay informed and de-trolled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Help Us Monitor Political Ads Online \u2014 ProPublica A terrific plan from ProPublica. A central excerpt that’ll tell us what they’re doing and how we can (and must) participate: The nature of online advertising is such that ads appear … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1246,1095,1175],"tags":[2079,2082,2080,2078,1216,2081],"class_list":["post-35099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komprosplat","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-facebook-politics","tag-political-ad-collection","tag-political-ads","tag-political-trolling","tag-propublica","tag-social-media-political-ads"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t