Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Some experts say targeted ads on streaming services could be crucial in the 2022 US midterms, as others worry the ads evade federal regulation and oversight  —  Over the last few weeks, tens of thousands of voters in the Detroit area who watch streaming video services were shown different …

Jennifer Conrad / Wired:
WeChat, used by millions of Chinese Americans, is one of the main venues for Chinese-language misinformation in the US and may influence the 2022 US midterms  —  Ahead of US midterms, activists are fighting falsehoods circulating in Chinese-language communities that they fear will distort the vote or suppress turnout.

Makena Kelly / The Verge:
TikTok expands its political content rules to limit fundraising by politicians and political groups, ahead of a full ban on fundraising  —  Starting Wednesday, TikTok is expanding its elections rules to make it harder for politicians and political groups to fundraise using the platform — and plans to ban all fundraising activity soon.

Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Snap’s ad archive shows some Democratic and progressive orgs were able to target ads using the data of a GOP data broker; Snap blames an internal mistake  —  A slip-up by social media giant Snap allowed leading Democratic campaigns and party committees to unwittingly tap into a vast repository …

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Metalenz, which makes metasurface optics for 3D imaging and sensing, raised a $30M Series B led by Neotribe Ventures, and says it is shipping millions of orders  —  The cameras in our phones, laptops, and increasingly home robots and the like are about as small as they can get unless …

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Research: Russia reactivates its troll and bot networks on Gab, Parler, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine  —  Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.