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How many relevant ads do we see each day?

From the moment we log onto the internet, we get bombarded with dozens, if not hundreds of digital ads. Ads for shoes, shirts, vacations, productivity tools, medicine, political campaigns, mortgages, even ads for next generation military helicopters, weapons ... Read More

Why this ad? The lack of transparency in ad targeting

Do you ever see an ad and think to yourself “Why I am being shown this ad? This literally has nothing to do with me!” That's how I felt when I recently got an ad for luxury housing in Accra, Ghana while reading some news about the 2020 US election.... Read More

How Harvard Business School and the US government have been unwittingly funding Russian propaganda websites

Sputnik News is a “Russian state-controlled news agency established by the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya with a headquarters in Moscow”. It is ranked<... Read More

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