Are platforms' monetization policies and their enforcement covered under the #DSA? The Board of Digital Services says YES ✅ The Board's latest report under Article 35(2) DSA recognizes #monetization policies and enforcement as a risk factor. 🧵 digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/s...

@whattofix.tech along with 15 organizations and academics called on @ec.europa.eu to broader its understanding of Influencer Marketing transparency in the upcoming Digital Fairness Act.

Platform #monetization isn't just a business model issue: it's a trust, safety, and human rights issue.

Ad money is still flowing to repeat disinformation peddlers. @whattofix.tech's “Demonetizing Disinformers” report shows how platforms enforce demonetisation in practice and what needs to change. www.whattofix.tech/publications...

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If you see an increase of #AI slop and inauthentic content on #Facebook over the next 3 weeks, this is very likely why.

Meta says it demonetises disinfo, but according to a new investigation from @whattofix.tech, pages with up to 464 fact-checks are still being asked to join its invite-only monetisation programme. www.whattofix.tech/publications...

🚨 NEW STUDY 🚨 We analyzed 290 Facebook pages fact checked 10+ times by one of #Meta’s Third-Party Fact-Checking partner and found serious failures with Meta's mitigation measures to prevent the #monetization of repeat disinformation purveyors. 🔗 Full study: www.whattofix.tech/publications...

Are you a journalist / fact-checker / researcher / litigator investigating social media abuse and wondering whether the accounts you're looking at are getting paid by platforms? We're putting together a Masterclass on *Social Media Monetization Research* 👉 www.whattofix.tech/publications...

Social media monetization is booming. Transparency is lagging. We launched a newsletter to help you keep track of the risks, rules and regulations shaping social media monetization. Consider signing up 👉 www.whattofix.tech/newsletter/

Look at this chart from @whattofix.tech. On Meta alone, it's gone from 1m to 15m monetised accounts worldwide. Absolutely quantifies the way the internet has changed, and how quickly.

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Instagram/Facebook monetization database 16M+ accounts 2019-2026 Search by keyword, account ID or creation date. www.monetization.wtf/monetization... Tip by BenDoBrown (OSINT Field Notes)

📆 Mark Your Calendar : When Polarization Pays 💰 Join our executive director @riovictoire.bsky.social and colleagues from Maldita.es and the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion as we explore how social media platforms incentivize and fund polarization 💲

Nepal's PM is the latest high profile politician to disclose earnings from major social platforms (~$100k 💰). The problem? Platforms claim politicians and government actors are prohibited from using their monetization services 🤔

🚨 EU-Sanctioned Entities Monetizing on #Facebook, #YouTube, #TikTok and #X WHAT TO FIX's latest research reveals how major social platforms enabled monetization services for accounts linked to individuals under #EU #sanctions and entities under their control 📚 www.whattofix.tech/publications...

👋 Join us in welcoming the newest addition to our team: Maiko Ratiani Maiko brings extensive experience in fact checking and media literacy - having worked with @mythdetector.com, Georgia's flagship fact-checking and myth debunking platform. She'll be helping us develop monetization resources!

Join us next Monday for what promises to be an incredible conversation at the 10th edition of #PDAF #SocialMedia #TechAccountability #Genocide

We couldn't agree more with our friends at Fundación Maldita.es on this: We need a LOT more transparency around social media monetization maldita.es/policy/20260...

🚨🚨 Social media monetisation is a risky business. In our latest report, we take a look at platforms’ latest #DSA risk assessment report and their coverage of the risks stemming from their monetisation activities. 📚 www.whattofix.tech/publications...

We're glad to see #France 🇫🇷 prioritize transparency and oversight of social media monetization in its national strategy against foreign interference. 📃 www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/files/...

More evidence from The @economist.com of the impact of the the reckless rollout of social media #monetization on the proliferation of harmful content. It's time regulators get a hang of this and stop platforms from incentivizing -- and financing -- the abuse of their services.

Great investigation by BBC news on yet another niche of harmful content that gets incentivized and proliferates as a result of the reckless rollout of social media #monetization services. 👉 www.bbc.com/news/article...

[🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY] We're hiring for a Brussels-based ✨Policy Manager to steer our efforts to get the #EU to regulate social media monetization services. Full Detail: www.whattofix.tech/publications... 📍 Brussels

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION - How Facebook Offers Monetization Services to Political Parties Our new research looks at how political parties are turning to social media #monetization as a new source of revenue and financial contributions - and explores implications for #BrandSafety and #Election integrity

X just unveiled a new feature, letting users know which country an account is being managed from. Unsurprisingly, many large accounts (MAGA or otherwise) don't appear to match their self-description 🤔

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros! As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊

[🔉Open Letter] We join EDRi and 125 organizations in raising concerns over the forthcoming #EU digital omnibus proposals. Now is NOT the time to give up hard-won protections for digital human rights. Read the letter 👉 www.whattofix.tech/publications...

[🔉 OPEN LETTER] We're proud to join 100s of orgs and individuals in calling for a strong, ambitious, and mandatory #COP30 decision upholding #InformationIntegrity on #climate change. Read the ✉️: www.whattofix.tech/publications... w/ @caadcoalition.bsky.social @counterhate.com and many more

As more and more #influencers turn political candidates, we need clearer rules around social media revenue generation. Check out this new report by Democratic Charkha and the National Alliance of People's Movement, on the #Bihar Assembly #Elections in India. democraticcharkha.in/investigatio...

"Ms Murphy Madia’s intervention pushed the debate into the transparency of monetised content." Nice write-up of WTF Policy Lead @sarahmurphymadia.bsky.social's intervention at the European Parliament's @euds.europarl.europa.eu. Monetization CAN be a boon to info integrity. But not w/o big fixes.

Open letter: we’ve joined more than 40 other organizations and individuals calling for Ireland to reconsider its appointment of a former Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner and to conduct a new, transparent process to appoint an official with a strong human rights protection record

👀 important update from @kendrabarnett.bsky.social at @adweek.bsky.social: #Meta will no longer subject itself to annual #BrandSafety audits from the Media Rating Council ( #MRC ). Read more 👉 www.adweek.com/media/meta-w...

OPEN LETTER: #EU must safeguard the independence of data protection authorities Read more: edri.org/our-work/ope... w @aiforensics.org @alliance4europe.bsky.social @article19europe.bsky.social @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social @hateaid.org @openmarkets.bsky.social @lobbycontrol.bsky.social and many more

We're back at the @europarl.europa.eu 🇪🇺 this afternoon. Our Policy Lead @sarahmurphymadia.bsky.social will be engaging in an exchange of view with the #EU @euds.europarl.europa.eu 🎬 Watch the live-stream: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream... #Monetization #FIMI #MediaViability

We were so glad for the opportunity to speak about our work on #monetization and its impact on #mediaviability at the Brussels #MFRR summit. Social monetization is a hugely influential yet under-regulated aspect of our info landscape, w huge implications for media viability and info integrity.

Happy to be back at the European Parliament’s @euds.europarl.europa.eu next Mon where we’ll talk about, among other things, how social media monetization systems currently UNDERMINE public-interest media, but also abt how such systems could reinforce media viability, even under current regulation.

It's official - Today, #Meta says it will officially stop serving Political, Electoral and Social Issue Ads on its platforms in the #EU.

Meta ends (at least for now) political ads in the EU today. Per their ad library data, they've run nearly 11,000,000 different political, social and issue ads in the EU since 2018 and made around €800m from them.

🚨 Dutch court rules on a case brought by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social that #Meta must give Facebook and Instagram users the option to select a feed that is not based on profiling. www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/10/02/j...

Money + politics = messy. Perhaps that’s why #Meta’s policies prohibit politicians and political candidates from its #monetization services. Yet our research reveals NUMEROUS politicians and political candidates that successfully enrolled for Facebook's various monetization services.

Just as the #EU Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising is set to enter into force...

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📅 Mark your calendars We'll be joining @sanjanah.bsky.social, @ramshajahangir.bsky.social, Raqib Nahik and Rohit Chopra next Monday for a timely conversation on Big Tech and Mis/Dinformation in #Asia. 🔗 Learn more & register: lnkd.in/eA7xC3Jm

3 months ago, we published a groundbreaking investigation pointing out how #Facebook's parent entity, #Meta, had be offering monetization services to #RT, #Sputnik and other EU-sanctioned entities well past the introduction of sanctions. 👉 www.whattofix.tech/publications...

A big step forward in getting transparency in platform monetization. I hope for many more such. #transparency #platform #monetization #socialMedia

#WhoMakesMoneyFromFacebook? SANCTIONED ENTITIES. We’re kicking off this series with a closer look at how #Facebook appears to provide monetization services to entities on both EU and US sanctions lists. www.whattofix.tech/publications...

🚨Big deal announcement🚨 We’ve been hard at work prototyping the world’s first ✨social media #MonetizationArchive ✨ And we’re ready to share it with you. Read on.

#Facebook monetization is booming - with nearly 8 million accounts registered for payment (up from 2.5 million at the start of the year 📈). Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing more on #WhoMakesMoneyFromFacebook.

Could #Facebook have been channeling money to a Mexican drug cartel? The El Makabelico Facebook page (825k+) was registered to get royalties from FB until the introduction of #OFAC #sanctions on the rapper on 6Aug for sending royalties to Cartel del Noreste 👉 home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...