This Wired article worth a read on how 'dark actors' used online ads to manipulate US voters.

This Wired article worth a read on how 'dark actors' used online ads to manipulate US voters.

Lots of focus recently on "regulating the Internet platforms" (whatever that means) which we should find disturbing & worrying.
What we DO need our governments to do is to ensure existing rules & regulations on political advertising (budget/spend, transparency) are extended to & enforced online as they should be offline.

I think there are plenty of signs similar techniques were used to prey on voters in our own Brexit Leave campaign.
https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/

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