Political Ad Fireworks

Welcome to our special bonfire night edition. As we’re all no doubt aware Bonfire night celebrates the triumph of brutal, state sponsored persecution in the face of a bloody failure of violent rebellion. With sparklers. What more appropriate night could there be for an episode of the Tech for God live podcast. We have a guest with us! Lauren Hogan, Volunteering Projects Officer with Turn2us, a national charity who support people facing financial struggles. You can find out more about their Connect tool at https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Connect  This week’s topics:    Stat of the week:  '84% of traffic to Childline is accessed via a Google product, and we have no control over this. https://twitter.com/odihq/status/1190256225029632000?s=12 Campaign news of the week:  The Supported Loving campaign led by My Life My Choice: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/30/campaign-for-learning-disabled-peoples-love-lives Tech news of the week: Twitter bans political ads whilst Facebook doubles down on not even fact checking them: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952?s=12 https://www.politico.eu/article/twitter-dropping-all-political-ads/ Beyond the fact checking there’s more unusual activity on Facebook ads: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50270727 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/31/facebook-prep-ads-instagram-political https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/04/i-worked-political-ads-facebook-they-profit-by-manipulating-us/  A Rant or Nice of the week?: 130 banks sign up to UN Principles for Responsible Banking - Greenwashing or a genuine effort by banks to improve: https://www.positive.news/economics/clean-money-could-a-commitment-to-responsible-banking-make-the-banks-better/ And finally… Sifted is looking for nominations for the real "game changers" out there — from founders to developers to community builders in Europe - nominate yourself and your tech for good friends:  https://sifted.eu/articles/sifted-gamechanger-callout/  ------------------ Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected]  and we’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your mates about this podcast! Thanks to podcast.co for hosting us in a beautiful mirrored studio. Which you can’t see. But it is pretty.