<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Raquel Renno Nunes</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raquel.rennonunes@opensocietyfoundations.org">raquel.rennonunes@opensocietyfoundations.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 11:20 AM<br>Subject: FW: [digital-disinfo] Fwd: Our ad API campaign<br>To: <a href="mailto:raquelrenno@gmail.com">raquelrenno@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:raquelrenno@gmail.com">raquelrenno@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>





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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Becky Jarvis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 1, 2019 10:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:digital-disinfo@open-wide.net" target="_blank">digital-disinfo@open-wide.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [digital-disinfo] Fwd: Our ad API campaign<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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 Mar 28, 2019 at 4:42 PMSubject: Our ad API campaignTo: Becky Jarvis ,<br>
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From: <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Brandi Geurkink</span></strong> <<a href="mailto:brandi@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">brandi@mozillafoundation.org</a>><br>
Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:42 PM<br>
Subject: Our ad API campaign<br>
To: Becky Jarvis <<a href="mailto:becky@the-open.net" target="_blank">becky@the-open.net</a>>, Jessica Shearer <<a href="mailto:jessica@the-open.net" target="_blank">jessica@the-open.net</a>><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hi Becky and Jessica,</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I hope that you’re both doing well! I’m writing with an update about our campaign to demand greater transparency of political ads.</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Back in February we sent a letter to Facebook telling them to increase their transparency efforts. Just a few hours after our open
 letter went online, a Facebook representative </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/02/13/facebook-answers-mozillas-call-to-deliver-open-ad-api-ahead-of-eu-election/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155cc">responded
 to our </span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">letter announcing that they’d be releasing a public database of political ads (and a searchable version called an API) by the end of this month. We
 expected that Google would release their API on 14 March as they promised, but they’ve already pushed that deadline back—despite the European Parliamentary elections drawing closer every day.</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As disinformation continues to spread across online platforms with the potential to interfere with democratic elections, it’s critical
 that these tools are accessible and effective. </span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">So today, Mozilla and a cohort of 10 independent researchers are
</span></b><span lang="EN"><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/27/facebook-and-google-this-is-what-an-effective-ad-archive-api-looks-like/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155cc">publishing
 five guidelines</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> that these APIs must meet in order to truly support election influence monitoring and independent research.</span></b><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Along with sending these to Google, Facebook and Twitter directly, we’ll also be sharing these guidelines with the European Commissioners
 who are responsible for assessing how the platforms are doing on their commitments made in the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. It’s rumoured that Facebook will release the API that they promised us in the coming days, and we hope that this will be a
 useful baseline for lawmakers and the public to critically assess these transparency efforts.</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Will you help us by
</span></b><b><span lang="EN"><a href="https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1111234602650226690" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155cc">sharing the letter with your network</span></a></span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
 Our plan is to continue to apply pressure until we achieve meaningful transparency. This isn’t only important for the elections happening in a few weeks in Europe—it’s a critical step towards achieving openness and accountability that impacts people in every
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