After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More
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Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, it has disabled the function we used to track the deleted Tweets of elected officials and political candidates — and the new method that Twitter says should identify deleted tweets appears to be broken.

Regardless of one's feelings about Twitter, this is a loss for transparency.

Thanks to @derekwillis for coming back to write this obit.

https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk

Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
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ProPublica spent months trying to crack open Google’s black box ad business. We wrote thousands of lines of code to scan >7M website domains looking for Google ad activity, sourced & analyzed data on millions more domains from half a dozen data partners, and spoke to some of the most knowledgeable experts about Google’s display ad business.

New from @craigsilverman

#Google #Advertising #Piracy

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud