Facebook’s ad transparency tool – the Facebook Ad Library – is a good first effort, and any progress to make political advertising more transparent should be encouraged and commended, but as we and others have noted, there is much still that can be done to make it more useful. In Read more…
By Felipe Soares, Philip Mai and Anatoliy Gruzd Brazilians are about to decide who is going to be their president for the next four years. The election pits two bitter rivals, the right-wing populist incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and the leftist former president Lula da Silva in a much-watched Brazilian election. Read more…
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, right, leaves the stage with MP candidate Chrystia Freeland after revealing his party’s election platform. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Philip Mai, Ryerson University and Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University Today, 94 per cent of Canadian adults who use the internet have at least one social media account, Read more…