#platform-transparency

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US politics
fromIntelligencer
5 hours ago

How Spam Ate American Politics

Many U.S.-focused MAGA accounts on X were revealed to be operated from abroad, notably India, after X briefly displayed account location information.
Information security
fromSocial Media Today
1 week ago

X Will Soon Indicate if a Profile is Using a VPN

X will add account creation date, creator location, and username-change history; tech firms identified Chinese state-linked influence operations and Google removed Russian-linked operations.
fromHelsinki Times
2 months ago

Google in $45 million deal with Israel to deny Gaza famine, report claims

According to documents cited by the report, Google's advertising platforms, including YouTube and Display & Video 360, were used to distribute promotional content designed to counter international concerns over humanitarian conditions in the territory. One YouTube video from Israel's Foreign Ministry, widely circulated through paid promotion, claimed: "There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie." The clip has been viewed over six million times.
World news
Digital life
fromFortune
4 months ago

More than 90% of X's Community Notes are never published and 'stuck in limbo', study finds

More than 90 percent of X's Community Notes are never published, limiting its effectiveness as a debunking tool.
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