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MARCH 22, 2024
"We are all more confused, but on a higher level"
Hello, folks!
Happy Friday, it has been A WEEK! Nandini traveled to Vienna as a keynote speaker for the JETZT SUMMIT on Digital Marketing 2024, which had the delightful motto of “We are all more confused, but on a higher level.”
Nandini did what she does, telling the crowd where ad money really goes and how it contributes to the global disinformation crisis. Great job, Dini!
A dog listens in as Nandini and Maarten Pieters of Ernst & Young chat. Photo by Elisabeth Kessler
We’ve also signed an open letter telling Meta to keep funding CrowdTangle. It’s an incredible tool that lets journalists, researchers, and others scour Facebook and Instagram to see what’s zooming across the platform in real time — and Meta is killing it ahead of one of the most consequential elections of our lives.
Meta says a different tool, the Content Library, will become available more widely to people doing the important work of research and safeguarding elections. But access is very limited and it’s missing functionality that CrowdTangle has.
Democracy is on the ballot in elections around the world. This is no time to kill off research tools that bring transparency.
Allrecipes.com may share your data with over 1,600 third-party companies. And this report from Wired’s Matt Burgess shows that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to sites selling your data.
Facebook is awash in weird AI images, but why? Is anyone actually clamoring for an unsettling photo of Jesus made of shrimp? Nope! It’s the latest twist on spammers’ and scammers’ attempts at capturing as much attention as possible, according to a study from Stanford and Georgetown University researchers. “Apparent motivations include driving people to off-platform websites, selling products, and building bigger followings,” the researchers wrote. At least we’ll be able to use CrowdTangle to track its — ah, well. Never mind then.
Thank you for being with us — and what do you think of the new look? Let us know at [email protected].
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