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KU Leuven: Facebook falls short in recognizing political ads

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Researchers from KU Leuven (research group imec-DistriNet) and New York University (Cybersecurity for Democracy) show that Facebook misjudges up to 83 percent of the political advertisements they or the researchers consider political worldwide. Sometimes they are not recognized as political advertisements, but often non-political advertisements are also incorrectly labeled as political. In the US and […]