- New Bill Takes Aim At 'Harmful' Online Content
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Two House Democrats propose stripping large tech companies of their immunity from lawsuits over users' "harmful" or "radicalizing" speech, if the companies use algorithms to recommend the content ...
- House Democrats Blast FCC Chief Over Plan To Regulate Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 19, 2020
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is engaged in "a blatant attempt to help a flailing President Trump" by aiming to influence social media companies in the remaining weeks before the election, ...
- Facebook Blocked 2.2 Million Ads For Breaking Political Campaign Rules
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 19, 2020
Facebook tagged warnings to 150 million misleading election-related posts, and 2.2 million ads were rejected because they failed to complete the political ad authorization process. ...
- Twitter Moves To Curb Political Disinformation
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 9, 2020
Hoping to prevent the viral spread of false information, Twitter will no longer allow users to "like" misleading posts by politicians, and will prohibit retweets of those posts unless users ...
- OpenX Releases Data On Ad Placements, Budgets For The Holiday Season In A Year Of COVID-19
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Marketers have spent the last several months recalibrating their strategies to fit consumer behaviors, despite taking drastic Q2 budget cuts. Budgets are rising for the holiday quarter, according to OpenX ...
- Trump Renews Call To Repeal Platforms' Protections
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 6, 2020
President Trump on Tuesday reiterated his call to abolish web publishers' legal protections, after Facebook and Twitter took action over his misleading post comparing COVID-19 to the flu. ...
- Facebook, Google, Twitter CEOs Could Be Called To Testify
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 30, 2020
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote Thursday on whether or not to authorize a series of subpoenas, calling on Facebook, Google and Twitter CEOs to attend a hearing. ...
- Google Defeats New Mexico AG's Lawsuit Over Student's Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
A federal judge has thrown out a privacy lawsuit brought by the New Mexico Attorney General over children's educational apps. ...
- Microsoft, Integral Ad Science Partnership Provides Brand Safety Verification
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
The brand safety verification for native ads running on the Microsoft Audience Network includes Microsoft owned-and-operated sites such as MSN, Outlook.com, and the Microsoft Edge browser as well as partner ...
- Microsoft Takes On Deepfakes
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 25, 2020
Microsoft's partnership with the AI Foundation makes the tools available to organizations involved in the news process and political campaigns. ...
- In GARM's Way: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Agree To Ad Industry's Harmful Content Standards
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Three of the biggest platforms responsible for the spread of disinformation and divisive content online -- Facebook, YouTube and Twitter -- have taken an important step toward a new self-regulatory ...
- FCC Urged To Reject 'Digital Authoritarianism,' Dismiss Petition For Social Media Rules
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 17, 2020
Moving forward with President Trump's planned crackdown on social media platforms would send the wrong message about censorship, the Consumer Technology Association told the FCC Thursday. ...
- Trump's FCC Pick Pushed For Social Media Crackdown
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
The White House has nominated telecom lawyer Nathan Simington, who reportedly assisted President Trump in his effort to crack down on social media companies, to replace Michael O'Rielly as FCC ...
- Internet Society Urges FCC To Reject Trump's Attempt To Regulate Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The nonprofit Internet Society is warning that the Trump administration's attempt to tamper with a law protecting web companies poses risks to the security and stability of the internet. ...
- Republicans Introduce Bill To Curb Publishers' Protections For Posts By Users
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 9, 2020
The "Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act," unveiled by Sens. Roger Wicker, Lindsey Graham and Marsha Blackburn, would tie web companies' potential liability for users' speech to the companies' content ...
- AT&T Says Tech Platforms Should Be Required To Disclose Algorithms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 3, 2020
"Leading tech platforms should now be required to make disclosures about how they collect and use data, how they rank search results, how they interconnect and interoperate with others, and ...
- Zuckerberg Apologizes For Facebook's Part In Kenosha Violence
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 31, 2020
Facebook failed to remove a page of a militia group calling for an armed response to Kenosha protests until after two protesters were shot to death. CEO Zuckerberg said it ...
- Defund Facebook: The Machine Fueling Ad Industry Demand For Change
MediaDailyNews, Kevin Ryan - Thursday, August 27, 2020
There is no financial incentive whatsoever to bring this to an end. Ban one and the optimization engine will just shift to the other. Think of it as an emotional ...
- Twitter Flags Trump Tweet About Voting Mail Drop Boxes
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 24, 2020
Tweet not only falsely claimed that mail drop boxes lead to voting fraud, but tried to dissuade voters from using them by suggesting that the boxes could transmit COVID-19. ...
- YouTube Tops In Brand Safety, According To Mediabrands Report And Audit
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, August 13, 2020
Apparently the Google-owned social network has come a long way since Logan Paul showed gruesome footage of a dead body on his YouTube channel. ...
- Facebook Cites COVID-19 For Slow Response To Remove Misinformation, Hate Speech, Terrorism Posts
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Facebook removed 7 million posts that shared COVID-19-related misinformation, but says the virus impeded its efforts in policing all content and removing more. ...
- Disney's Exodus From Facebook Benefited Amazon
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 6, 2020
Pathmatics estimates 180 brands joined the boycott, halting Facebook spend as early as late June to show their solidarity with the #stophateforprofit campaign. Here's what the data looks like. ...
- Trump Rescinds Renomination Of Republican FCC Commissioner
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 3, 2020
The White House late Monday afternoon rescinded the renomination of Federal Communications Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, who questioned President Trump's attempt to regulate social media. ...
- Republican FCC Commissioner 'Shudders' At Fairness Doctrine For Web
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 30, 2020
"Like it or not, the First Amendment's protections apply to corporate entities, especially when they engage in editorial decision making," FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly says. ...
- Inside YouTube's Bias Recommendation Bubble
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
The Mozilla-funded project TheirTube gives people an opportunity to experience what YouTube recommends, depending on their perspective, to demonstrate how recommendation algorithms can sway opinion. ...
- Target, MTV Separate Church And State
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 13, 2020
Target and MTV have added to their "blocklist" to keep their ads from serving up next to articles that mention "Breonna Taylor" and "George Floyd" and the word "protests." ...
- After 'Disappointing' Meeting With Facebook Execs, Organizers Urge Continued Ad Boycott
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
#StopHateForProfit organizers say it's now clear that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his senior executives have no intention of taking the stronger measures against hate content that they have laid out. ...
- Just-Released Civil Rights Audit Of Facebook Called 'Damning'
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 8, 2020
After two years of work, the independent auditors say Facebook Inc. has made progress, but are particularly critical of its failure to curb hate speech by politicians, and of its ...
- Amazon, Google, Facebook To Face New EU Legislation On Content, Competition, Taxes
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, July 5, 2020
The goal is to quash anticompetitive behavior in companies such as Google, Amazon and Facebook. It would make the companies pay more taxes and take more responsibility for illegal content ...
- In July, All Of Facebook Will Be 'Brand Unsafe'
MediaDailyNews, Kevin Lee - Monday, June 29, 2020
I recommend that all advertisers and marketers conduct a cost-benefit analysis for July and make a conscious decision whether Facebook and the other social media platforms need to take on ...
