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Transcript Note: This podcast is designed to be heard. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emphasis that’s not on the page Introduction Adam:Hello and welcome to CoRecursive. I’m Adam Gordon Bell. Each episode of CoRecursive, someone shares the fascinating story behind some piece of software being built. On April 1st, 2014, an open source maintainer got an email from Google about a security issue, and this was not an April Fool’s joke. This wa...

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 ― The latest update of the Firefox browser (89) presents a completely revised interface following a usage study of users. The result is a streamlined version focused on the most frequent uses. The new Firefox is faster and more streamlined. It was designed based on the...

© iStock Political groups are exploiting a loophole in TikTok’s advertising policies to promote their interests without a trace, according to new research released Thursday by the Mozilla Foundation. Although the short-form video app has claimed not to allow political advertising on its platform, organizations have evaded the ban by funneling money to influential users. The nonprofit group analyzed a slew of political TikToks and identified several from influencers with links to organization...

More than a dozen have posted without basic disclosures.

TikTok announced a ban on political advertising all the way back in 2019. New research by Mozilla suggests that policy loopholes and lax oversight, especially around influencer marketing, coupled with an ongoing lack of ads transparency by TikTok -- which offers no publicly searchable ad archive -- are making its video-sharing platform vulnerable to passing off political ads as organic content. Mozilla says it found over a dozen instances of TikTok influencers across the political spectrum who...

Report claims political ads sneak on to the platform and there is a lack of transparency on paid posts.

Published Jun 3, 2021   Updated Jun 3, 2021, 11:18 am CDT Mozilla, the tech company behind the Firefox browser, says it has found numerous instances of political advertising on TikTok from influencers despite the app saying there is a ban on those ads. Featured Video Hide The Mozilla Foundation released a report on Thursday, “Th€se Are Not Po£itical Ad$: How Partisan Influencers Are Evading TikTok’s Weak Political Ad Policies,” that found that de...

TikTok announced a ban on political advertising all the way back in 2019. So you’d be forgiven for thinking the ugly problem of democracy-denting political disinformation doesn’t apply inside its walled garden of dancing Gen Zers. But you’d be wrong. New research by Mozilla suggests that policy loopholes and lax oversight, especially around influencer marketing, […]

Archyde June 1, 2021 by archyde The latest Firefox update is officially available. The Mozilla Foundation’s web browser is changing and inaugurates its new interface, called Proton. Mozilla made it simpler, clearer, and above all more modern, with some curves. The menus have been reorganized and the less used items have been removed. Only the functions essential to navigation have been kept in the foreground. The various alert windows that were once displayed in the f...