In defense of digital political ads
IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and here's a little plug for my day job.
As part of work I'm doing linked to the United Kingdom's efforts around social media transparency and accountability, we'll be holding a webinar with regulators and policymakers on Aug. 6 (at 11am UK time / 6am ET — sorry!) about the country's new data access efforts. You can sign up here.
— Google and Meta's collective pullback on political ad transparency in the European Union harms free speech and the public's engagement with political campaigns.
— What Big Tech's recent earnings season demonstrates about their high-wire geopolitical balance between the United States and everyone else.
— Almost half of the United Kingdom has never used artificial intelligence tools in their daily lives.
Let's get started:
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