Examples of ‘bad ads’ found on the web: clickbait articles, potentially unwanted programs, miracle weight loss supplements, gross-out images, and investment pitches.
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A combination of volume, technology and financial need has opened the door to sleazy and dangerous advertisements on reputable websites.
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New software that can generate images and text on command may deliver ‘good enough’ creativity in advertising, copywriting, stock imagery and graphic design.
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Opening these libraries up promises to re-balance the continent’s place in world history when it comes to its intellectual life.
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There are around 201 known factors on which a website is analysed and ranked by Google’s algorithms.
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Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft have each taken some form of action against Russia — but the actual impact it will have isn’t clear.
Tesla vehicles are parked outside of a building during a meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing in 2019. Tesla is a company with both high reliance on North American technology and Chinese supply chains.
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Research suggests that two factors are most important when making decisions on how businesses should respond to the U.S.-China trade war: location and supply chain dependence, and technology.
Students at a primary school in Nairobi, Kenya, queue to have their temperature taken when public schools fully reopened on 4 January 2021.
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Despite government efforts to provide digital resources for students kept out of school for most of 2020, access to these platforms was deeply unequal
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The laws about cookies are fairly clear in EU and UK, but many big companies are breaking them anyway.
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Does Australia benefit from Google paying for News Corp training?
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A number of legal cases were brought forward by regulators this year, in a bid to hold major tech companies accountable.
Meta supremo Mark Zuckerbeg has met his match in Europe.
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Social media firms in Europe are well on the way to a thousand cuts.
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Several measures need to be put in place to track the code’s effectiveness in protecting news outlets and the public interest.
US tech company’s search for the right result proves fruitless.
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The knock-on effects from this ruling could be enormous.
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Corporate rebranding is fundamental to the spread of metacapitalism which uses increasingly sophisticated technology to shape, exploit and profit from human interaction.
How big of a problem is misinformation on social media? Without key data, the picture is blurry.
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Not knowing how many posts people see on social media overall or where specific types of content get concentrated is keeping researchers in the dark about misinformation.
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A proposed online privacy code would give consumers more control over how tech companies collect and use their data
Canada’s proposed internet regulation measures focus almost exclusively on speech.
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Canada needs to overhaul its approach to addressing online harms if it wants to remain a human rights leader and champion of internet freedom.
Is he looking at you or looking at personal information about you?
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Smart glasses like Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories could be used to record you surreptitiously. If the company adds facial recognition, you could be even more exposed.
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Each time you visit a page hosting ads, an automated ad auction begins behind the scenes — where the highest bidder wins the chance to target you with their product.
People tend to view social media posts more favorably when more people have liked, commented on or shared them, regardless of the quality of the posts.
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You have evolved to tap into the wisdom of the crowds. But on social media your cognitive biases can lead you astray.