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          1. Absolutely zero programmatic ad networks are actively policed. I mean, they can be monitored, but they are black boxes by design, with it being nearly impossible to monitor everything. Been talking about this for a while Chronotope/722567640192040962?replies_view=true&cursor=ACCXYpMTBwo
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          So when you're asking 'how did propaganda show up as Facebook ads?' or 'why is no one stopping ads from showing up next to kids being tortured?' The answer is: by design.
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        Like this stuff is terrifying and inevitable under the current design and it is--not joking--the best case scenario of how things can go wrong: JuliaAngwin/938032580024291328
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      I mean, journalists can barely audit Facebook ads in a complete way and they're finding terrible stuff.
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    We will never know what role programmatic ad networks might have played in doing the same exact thing but worse, with politics, malware, hijacks, or with scams, because there's no way to fully audit them.
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      And that's not even counting things like EverQuote which are technically legal but in a way that only exists because shitty behavior online moves faster than regulation Chronotope/887418120155136001
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        You could task an entire news organization on doing nothing but investigating fraud in ad networks and they wouldn't be able to cover every base or even every major story.
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          I think the main thing to note in this is that all the people in charge and experts basically say 'Sorry we have no way to absolutely make sure we don't sent you an ad that, when clicked, hijacks your computer and holds it for ransom' propublica.org/article/facebook-political-ads-malware-scams-misleading
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            It's a bad system. Fundamentally.


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