Big business tries to divert a protest movement into meaningless symbols.
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‘Dark Money’ Groups Back Engel Against Progressive Challenger Bowman
Two nonprofits, recently incorporated in Delaware, have spent $260,000 on ads and mailers backing Rep. Eliot Engel. The groups are not required to reveal their donors.
Posted inEducation in America
For-Profit Colleges See Opportunity in Depression
An industry with a sketchy track record has ramped up advertising to desperate prospective students.
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Google Is Profiting From Notorious Hate Group’s Ads
The tech giant appears to only be enforcing part of its hate speech ad policy when it comes to anti-immigrant hate group FAIR.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Progressive Group Says It’s Time for the FTC to Investigate the FTC
Is the Federal Trade Commission using the same deceptive advertising practices it’s supposed to police?
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work
They’re shaping our market, our democracy—our entire reality. If we’re going to fix them, we need to understand them.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Digital Media Is Suffocating—and It’s Facebook and Google’s Fault
Newsrooms across the country are laying off journalists, because the ad dollars generated from their work all filter up to Big Tech.
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Digital Fixes Won’t Solve the Democrats’ Problems
Democratic strategists obsess over new apps to facilitate voter contacts, while grassroots groups are supercharging what really matters: making personal connections.
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Internet Ad Rules Bring Together Strange Bedfellows
Conservative activists are trotting out all their same old arguments to block new Facebook rules, but not all Republicans are listening.
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Big Money’s Other Casualty: Fair Courts
Record spending by secretive outside special interests in state supreme court races poses a stark threat to the impartiality of the nation’s courts.