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Government of Canada representatives from the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force will provide a technical briefing to media, to update on the general election 45.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Is this normal, or are things getting more out of hand than normal?

My wife has been getting those fake CBC ads on Facebook and it's frankly disgusting Meta/FB aren't stepping up and doing something about this. They have shadow profiles that track and collate all your logged out activity, but they can't figure out who's posting the same ads that violate terms? I call BS, they don't want to find them and lose money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

The Facebook Cambridge Analytica leak was mostly framed as a privacy thing but people glazed over how all that data was used to target people for politics and that was a decade ago imagine what they can do now.

On the fake ads front like you said they're more than happy to accept the ad revenue regardless where it comes from, the platforms is also setting records for user hours and there's barely any political movements to do anything about it.

If people are going to keep using those platforms they should be using altered apps and blocking as much of that stuff as they can.

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