Friday, Apr. 6, 2018 - Facebook Labels Political Ads

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🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Facebook labels political ads, cryptocurrencies might run afoul of GDPR, SpaceX can’t post videos from space, bots help you beat parking tickets, the weekend longreads and what’s the story behind Fortnite? Stories and Longreads:Lawyer bots take the hassle out of fighting parking tickets and property taxes — and could cost local governments real revenue (Recode)How Europe’s new privacy rule is reshaping the internet (The Verge)Checking in with the Facebook fact-checking partnership (Columbia Journalism Review)A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers A New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins (Wired)South Korean millennials are reeling from the Bitcoin bust (The Verge) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, April 6, 2018. Today, Facebook labels political ads,
0:13.8	Cryptocurrences might run afoul of GDPR.
0:17.6	SpaceX can't post videos from space.
0:20.7	Bots help you beat parking tickets, the weekend long reads, and what's the story behind Fort Knight?
0:27.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:37.0	Well, it's time for the seemingly daily Facebook news rundown. I was kind of only half joking last week when I said maybe we should have a special
0:41.9	breaking news bumper just for Facebook stories
0:44.5	Actually if somebody wanted to edit together a little jingle for Zuckerberg's congressional testimony next week
0:49.9	I'd seriously consider playing it.
0:52.8	This afternoon, Facebook made two big announcements.
0:56.8	Last October, the company had said that only authorized advertisers would be able to run electoral ads on Facebook or Instagram,
1:05.0	and today they extended that requirement to advertisers wanting to run so-called issue
1:10.0	ads surrounding political or controversial topics.
1:14.0	Going forward, only verified advertisers will be able to post
1:18.0	electoral or issue ads on Facebook and those ads will be gaining a prominent political ad label.
1:25.0	Second, Facebook is now making it harder for fake accounts to run pages.
1:31.0	Going forward, users who manage pages with a large number of followers
1:36.0	will need to be authenticated and verified by Facebook itself.
1:40.0	On his personal Facebook page, CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted these changes by writing,
1:45.0	quote, with important elections coming up in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India, Pakistan,
1:51.0	and more countries in the next year, one of my top priorities for 2018
1:55.2	is making sure we support positive discourse and prevent interference in those elections.
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