For the past few years Dr. Damon McCoy, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon, and Ph.D. candidate Laura Edelson have been shedding light on the people behind political advertising through the Online Political Transparency Project of the Center for Cybersecurity. In doing so, both have become sought after commentators in local and national media. Here is a round-up of recent articles about political advertising and the upcoming election in which they have been quoted.

McCoy recently provided some insights to Wired in a September 15 article about a group of “Trump defectors” now seeking to repurpose the 2016 social media strategy against their one-time candidate.

Edelson was quoted in a September 4 article in the New York Times about Facebook’s newly announced policy to ban new political ads a week before Election Day, and in a September 12 article in Business Insider about why Facebook’s new study of its own influence on political attitudes and behaviors is likely to fall short. More recently, on October 23, she was quoted in an article on BuzzFeed about the number of political ads on Facebook that have “slipped through the cracks.” In part, the quote states, “I commend Facebook for the degree of transparency that they are showing, but they have been pressured into it by the public because they’ve done things that are completely unreasonable.”

The Online Political Transparency Project’s introduction of two new tools, the Ad Observatory and the Ad Observer was also covered by Phys.org and in an article on which Kentucky candidate for the Senate is spending the most money on the campaign.