Like many who use social media and have concerns about privacy, data breaches, and viewpoint discrimination, I closely followed the testimony of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg before the Senate Intelligence Committee looking into the Russian social media disinformation campaign during the 2016 presidential election.
I was particularly interested in procedures Facebook introduced in May to vet people who want to “boost” posts containing political content, and to review political ads—which Facebook ominously categorizes as “restricted content.”
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