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Kentucky escapes Missouri with 21-17 victory

2 years 8 months ago
Amid a contest in which the defenses for Kentucky and Missouri flexed their muscles most of the afternoon, it was a botched punt snap that proved the difference for the Wildcats in escaping with a 21-17 victory over the Tigers on Saturday.
Associated Press

Singer Aaron Carter dies at 34

2 years 8 months ago
Though Carter was not identified, officials responded to a drowning just before 11 a.m. in the 42000 block of Valley Vista Drive, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Cameron Kiszla

The Business of Trafficking in Political Disinformation and Fake News

2 years 8 months ago

In my previous article on Decide Technologies’ connections to the alt-right, I shared my research into when LockerDome’s alt-right advertising network first launched shortly after Ferguson, the size of the network that we can see with our own eyes and my estimates for how much money the company is paying out to alt-right publishers and how much they’re making.

  • Size of Alt-right publisher network: 115 sites generating 567 million page views a month 
  • Revenue to Alt-right publishers: an estimated $6.53 million to $15.24 million a year
  • Revenue to Decide Technologies: an estimated $0.54 million to $1.27 million a month

In this article, I’ll explain how ad networks work for any publisher, and why Decide's business proposition lends itself especially well to working with fake news and disinformation networks.

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Jonathan Allen

This Week In Techdirt History: October 30th – November 5th

2 years 8 months ago
Five Years Ago This week in 2017, declassified documents revealed the NSA’s efforts to prosecute a journalist for successful FOIA requests, a judge refused a boilerplate request from the DOJ for a gag order, Dianne Feinstein was trying to get Twitter to just hand over a bunch of private communications, and we took a closer […]
Leigh Beadon