Meta has filed lawsuits to fight deceptive advertising by firms in Brazil, China and Vietnam, The Hacker News reports. It has also sent cease-and-desist orders to eight marketing consultants who allegedly advertised the ability to dodge ad-policy enforcement. Meta says it has disabled the accounts and blocked their domain names.   

A coalition of U.K. media companies is attempting to enlist publishing, broadcasting, media and news providers to join their effort to force AI firms to pay for journalism they scrape and use. The group includes The Guardian, the BBC, Financial Times, Sky News and Telegraph Media Group.

Equalpride -- parent of LGBTQ brands including Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, Health PLUS Wellness and Advocate Original -- laid off several top editors and staffers last Friday, The Hollywood Reporter writes. Included were Alex Cooper, editor in chief of The Advocate; Rachel Shatto, editor in chief of Pride.com; and Erin Manley, brand partnerships manager. 

Nexstar’s billion-dollar bid to acquire Tegna is still being reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission. The merger has been endorsed by the Trump administration (“GET THAT DEAL DONE,” Trump recently wrote on Truth Social). The New Yorker reports in an analysis the merger is “politically messy and technical, and the deal itself isn’t that big in dollars and cents."

A total of 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists says in its annual report, according to Reuters. The Committee alleges that two-thirds were killed by Israel,  but Israel counters that it only targets combatants in Gaza. The report shows that 31 workers were killed during an attack on a Houthi media center in Yemen. Journalists were also killed in Sudan (nine) Mexico (six), Ukraine (four) and the Philippines (three). 

Tesla has sued the California DMV, seeking to reverse a ruling that it “wrongfully and baselessly labels Tesla a false advertiser for marketing its industry-leading advanced driver-assistance systems ('ADAS') under the brand names ‘Autopilot” and ‘Full-Self Driving Capability.” However, the California DMV said the brand would not incur a license suspension because it changed its marketing, but Tesla still argues that it did not receive due process in hearings.   

The Trade Desk, Inc. has launched what it calls the Ventura Ecosystem, a platform it says will deliver transparency and revenue efficiency in connected TV advertising (CTV), Yahoo reports.. Early users include VIDAA (or V), which powers  more than 50 million connected devices worldwide, and Nexxen, a unified ad tech platform specializing in data-driven  TV solutions. The Trade Desk sees CTV as its largest, fastest-growing channel.

WPP disclosed data on payments of more than $9 billion from clients, including Google, Coca-Cola, Ford and Unilever, the New York Post writes. The court documents, part of WPP’s effort to defend itself against charges of running rebate schemes, could lead to calls for further transparency into how ad agencies generate revenue. 

The UK’s Kantar Media, which was divested by its owners Bain Capital and WPP in 2025, has changed its name to Fifty5Blue., Research-Live reports. “Today we step forward as Fifty5Blue with ambition,” says Patrick Béhar, global chief executive of Kantar Media. “In a world full of noise, with no shortage of data, we believe clarity is the real differentiator.”

Gray Media has unveiled a new TV show called “Aging Untold,” focusing on the U.S. market’s aging population, GuruFocus reports. The 30-minute conversational program will address the concerns and challenges facing aging Americans. Starting on Monday, March 7, it will air on weekdays and expected to reach 35% of U.S. television households through Gray’s stations.