Transparency

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Funding trails behind apparently independent online advocacy | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Funding records can reveal relationships behind online advocacy, but a financial connection alone does not prove editorial control, deceptive coordination, or the sponsor's motive.

Privacy policies that obscure the identities of data recipients | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A privacy policy can disclose that data is shared with broad categories such as partners or service providers while still leaving readers unable to identify the actual companies receiving or processing their information.

Data access requests as a way to inspect an assembled profile | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A data access request can reveal what a company has stored about a person, including volunteered facts, acquired attributes, inferred interests, and links to other identifiers—but the response still has limits.