Alex Gage is the guy who invented microtargeted election campaigning, the trend that sealed Karl Rove's reputation as political wunderkind. Using the wealth of personal data on Americans that's ...

Facebook won't change its policies on fact-checking ads promoted by politicians or limit political campaigns' microtargeting abilities, the company said Wednesday. Instead, Facebook announced that it ...

Internet-based advertising has been a boon for both political campaigns and disinformation campaigns, which love to take advantage of the ability to slice and dice the electorate into incredibly tiny ...

After years of struggling to catch up to the Republican Party’s sophisticated microtargeting efforts, the Democratic National Committee appears to have come close to parity. The DNC has now ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Twitter has banned political ads, and Facebook is now considering limiting the use of a method of political advertising called microtargeting, Politico reports. Basically, ...

Despite the massive amount of money floating around in politics this time of year, campaigns are surprisingly tight-fisted with their cash. “You don’t want to waste your dollars communicating with ...

The European Union’s chief privacy and data protection regulator has urged EU policymakers to strengthen proposed ‘transparency’ rules for political ads — calling instead for meaningful limits that ...

Political ads on the airwaves have been so pervasive this year that voters in battleground states probably see them in their sleep. But when a political spot pops up while surfing the Web, there’s a ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has no intention of changing the company’s policy on political advertisements, which means the social network will not ban them or fact-check them, three high-ranking ...

From Beets to Lyme Disease, No Niche Too Small in Internet-Age politics. Oct. 22, 2012— -- As this election heads toward what looks to be a photo finish, there are really two presidential ...

The country’s largest digital advertising platform is trying to take a stand heading into the 2020 election this week, as it both limits the targeting of political ads and warns would-be political ...