UK campaigner takes on Facebook ‘dark ads’ during election
10 years agoCo-founder of 'Who Targets Me', a browser plug-in that tracks how political parties target people with advertising on Facebook, Louis Knight-Webb, poses for a portrait using his laptop in a cafe in London on May 31, 2017. In London, 19-year-old Louis Knight-Webb is campaigning to shed light on the use of targeted Facebook ads in the election campaign amid growing concern they could be skewing democracy. Thousands of people have downloaded a browser plug-in created by Knight-Webb that monitors the ads that people are exposed to, including "dark ads" that can only be seen by particular groups of users. Justin TALLIS / AFP
Thousands of people have downloaded a browser plug-in created by 19-year-old Louis Knight-Webb, which monitors the advertisements to which people are exposed when they go online.