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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-30 21:25:56

SEC filing: Meta says it is no longer facing a CFPB investigation over advertising for financial services on its platforms (Evan Weinberger/Bloomberg Law)
news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-

Meta Escapes CFPB Probe Into Financial Services Advertising
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it is no longer facing potential penalties from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over advertising for financial services on its platforms.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-11 23:10:55

DirecTV launches DirecTV Elect, an AI-driven political ad platform offering access to CTV ad inventory across DirecTV and US cable networks (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
thedesk.net/2025/11/directv-el

DIRECTV takes on local TV with political advertising product
November 11, 2025 - DIRECTV is launching a new product called DIRECTV Elect that gives political ad buyers greater reach through connected TV platforms.

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2025-11-08 19:54:01

"Faking Receipts with AI"
smh ... every part of our digital experience is about to be cooked.
schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Faking Receipts with AI - Schneier on Security
Over the past few decades, it’s become easier and easier to create fake receipts. Decades ago, it required special paper and printers—I remember a company in the UK advertising its services to people trying to cover up their affairs. Then, receipts became computerized, and faking them required some artistic skills to make the page look realistic. Now, AI can do it all: Several receipts shown to the FT by expense management platforms demonstrated the realistic nature of the images, which inc…

@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-10 08:40:09

Mobile Gamer Lifetime Value Prediction via Objective Decomposition and Reconstruction
Tianwei Li, Yu Zhao, Yunze Li, Sheng Li
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08281

Mobile Gamer Lifetime Value Prediction via Objective Decomposition and Reconstruction
For Internet platforms operating real-time bidding (RTB) advertising service, a comprehensive understanding of user lifetime value (LTV) plays a pivotal role in optimizing advertisement allocation efficiency and maximizing the return on investment (ROI) for advertisement sponsors, thereby facilitating growth of commercialization revenue for the platform. However, the inherent complexity of user LTV distributions induces significant challenges in accurate LTV prediction. Existing state-of-the-ar…

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-10-23 09:13:38

#Spotify is running #ICE advertisements even on accounts that pay for not getting ads:
snopes.com/fact-check/spot…

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts
The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-22 12:42:46

🥠 How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
#media #socialmedia

Two annular pie charts. On the left: policy issues discussed by Kamala Harris who spoke about Birth Control 49% of the time, on the right Donald Trump who spoke about immigration 47% of the time, these don't add up to 100% because they could have spoken about more than one thing in a video.

How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
Social media platforms are increasingly central to campaign communication, with both paid (advertising) and earned (organic) posts used for fundraising, mobilization, and persuasion. TikTok, and other short-form video platforms, with its short-video format and content-driven algorithms, demand unique content. We examine the final six months before the 2024 US Presidential Election to understand how major campaigns used TikTok. We frame our analysis around two political science theories. The fir…