The Crisis Team

Regulating political advertising on social media

For some time Bill Mew, our principle consultant, has been calling for regulatory reform – not just in privacy and data protection, where we have seen GDPR and may soon see federal regulation in the US, but also in associated areas like facial recognition and AI.
Bill is an advocate for seeking the right balance between digital transformation ‘changing the world’ and digital ethics ‘doing the right thing’. He has been calling for privacy policies that provide meaningful protection while also promoting economic and social good.
In this interview he discusses Facebook’s proposals for regulating political advertising on its social platform – it is a three-way interview between an expert in the studio in Moscow, Bill in the UK and a democrat strategic advisor who was on the Hillary Clinton campaign in Washington DC.