• BBC Games Helps Train Kids To Spot 'Fake News'
    A new BBC iReporter game is helping to teach children how to spot fake news, the BBC reports. The game helps children decide which news sources can be trusted and takes them on an adventure to see whether they can spot what is real and which stories are fabricated.
  • Harvey Nichols Parts Ways With Adam & Eve/DDB After 17 Years
    "Campaign" reveals that Harvey Nichols has ended its 17-year relationship with Adam & Eve/DDB. The parting of the ways follows Deborah Bee as group marketing and creative director.
  • Britain First Is Banned From Facebook
    The threats to act on groups that spread extremist content have been acted on, and Britain First has finally been banned from Facebook, "The Mirror" reports. The far right group seeks to stoke up antagonism between Britons and Muslim communities. It was the group Donald Trump retweeted recently, prompting a fractious exchange with the UK's Prime Minister, Theresa May.
  • Spotify's Self-Service Platform Comes To The UK
    Spotify is rolling out its self-service advertising platform to the UK and Canada, "Campaign" reports.
  • RT Hits Back At MP Calls To Close It Down To Hit Back At Russia
    RT (Russia Today) has hit out at calls from MPs to ban it from broadcasting in the UK because it is funded by The Kremlin. "Press Gazette" reports the channel claims it is a pawn in the political row between the UK and the Russia over the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy, his daughter and a policeman who came to their assistance.
  • UK's First 'Right To Be Forgotten' Trials Underway
    "Press Gazette" is reporting on what lawyers believe are the first "right to be forgotten" trials in Britain. A businessperson is asking a judge to force Google to erase a conviction which is now legally "spent." A similar case brought by another businessperson last week. A decision is due soon, but no date has been given for a verdict on each case to be given.
  • Marketers Admit They Will Waste A Quarter Of Their Budgets This Year
    Marketers estimates they will waste just over a quarter of their budgets (26%) this year, according to research among professionals in West Europe and the US by Rakuten Marketing, reported on in Netimperative.
  • Google Doubles Bad Ad Takedown Rate
    Google took down 3.2bn "bad" ads last year -- nearly double the figure from the year before, "The Drum" reports.
  • British Agencies Commit To A Living Wage
    Thirty-four British agencies have pledged to pay all staff and interns a living wage to make it easier for young people to enter the industry, "Campaign" reports. That is a wage of GBP10.20 per hour in London and GBP8.75 outside.
  • Google Blames Human Error For Neo-Nazi Video Errors
    Google has blamed human error for why videos from a banned British Neo-Nazi group were flagged up as extremist but still not taken down, the BBC reports.
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