(2016-10-14) How To Illegally Sway An Election Using Sponsored Content

Ryan Singel on How to Illegally Sway an Election Using “Sponsored Content”

Unlabeled ads have been and remain rampant in “sponsored content” units powered by companies like Outbrain and Taboola, which have long resisted even labeling their modules as advertisements.

California campaign finance laws require those disclosures to be prominent

Despite Bernie Sanders disdain for corporate money, a lobbying group funded with nearly $4.5M from the American Beverage Association has been secretly promoting, via online ads, a Sanders Op-Ed. (Presidential Election)