In surprising news, Google has decided to abandon its plan to eliminate third-party cookies from its Chrome browser. This decision, initially poised to revolutionise online

The dust has now settled in the count centers as election results have come through. At home in Ireland, we sigh with relief that the

The dust starts to settle in some count centres, while in others the plucky remaining few scratch around for final seats. At home in Ireland,

Marija writes: I know Dublin. Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time there and, after Belgrade, it’s almost a second home. So I

After almost 4 years of working together on civil society and political campaigns (and two attempted trips scuppered by the pandemic) I was finally able

I first heard the phrase “kill your darlings” from Stephen King, which gives it a particularly sinister edge. But the tough-love technique of reviewing your

https://medium.com/@clare_23030/three-reasons-twitter-was-wrong-to-ban-political-ads-79af6308ed7e When Jack Dorsey announced he was banning political ads on Twitter, I found myself uncomfortably sharing the view of those whose politics are usually

I know abuses have given online ads a bad name, but banning them isn’t the answer. My Op-Ed in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/06/facebook-political-ads-social-media

There are digital opportunities for progressive campaigners amid the Covid crisis “Now’s not the time to be political.”“We need to rally behind the government.”“Political point-scoring

Like it or loathe it, every campaigner knows they need to be on Facebook. And with almost 2.5 billion users worldwide, 1.6bn of them using

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You may have heard the term ‘digital properties’. Let’s pretend that your Facebook Pages and Ad Accounts are literally rooms within a big property, like