Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
Tracking Harris and Trump’s Ad Spending on Facebook and Instagram
Meta’s Ad Library is free to use, and provides useful insights into how politicians and their campaigns are advertising on social media platforms.
Ted Cruz campaign using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users
Exclusive: Documents reveal donor-funded US startup embedded in Republican’s campaign paid UK university academics to collect psychological profiles on potential voters
Scam Ads Are Flooding Social Media. These Former Meta Staffers Have a Plan
Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem.
Dark Web Informer on Twitter / X
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Fake Cal Fire social media accounts are asking for donations
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – As Los Angeles begins rebuilding after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires leveled entire communities, fraudsters and scammers have taken to social media to take ad…
Who reposts which media sources? And why this matters for understanding populist politics
In social media, while documenting what gets said is important, understanding who posts which sources to raise their visibility is also key. Katharina Tittel, William Allen, and Pedro Ramaciotti use immigration in France to show how far-right users of X cite sources strategically to achieve their goals
Johnny Harris — How billionares stole America's elections
American elections are for sale. It wasn’t always this way.
Ten more unintuitive things about impact philanthropy fundraising
some more lessons I’ve learned, for the $free.99
The Metric Media network runs more than 1,200 local news sites. Here are some of the non-profits funding them.
<p>This is the first part of a two-part investigation. The second piece can be found here. As local news outlets across the US struggle to stay afloat, pop-up newsrooms are filling the void. Organizations with ties to political parties, special-interest groups, and lobbyists have emerged under the guise of news. One of the biggest such […]</p>
Debunking the science of advertising
We delve into the world of advertising, worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, to find out if it's really even that effective. A collection with 3 stories from The Correspondent.
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting
Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting
Democracy Needs Public Media with Victor Pickard
Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Profe…
In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-soc…
They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real
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