- Google Cloud Chief Joins Federal Task Force Researching AI
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 10, 2021
Moore has joined a task force to help the government determine how it can use data on U.S. citizens to train and support AI models, helping the U.S. better compe ...
- Security Firm Gains Funding Just As Microsoft Reports Another Massive Email Attack
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 28, 2021
The state-supported attack appears to be focused on critics of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. ...
- Microsoft Reports Another Hack, Threat To Future Of Email Advertising
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 28, 2021
Microsoft today reported yet another large-scale email system hack. This attack comes on the heels of several other breaches including SolarWinds, Ubiquiti, and the Colonial Pipeline. ...
- Facebook Defeats Maffick's Lawsuit Over 'Russia State-Controlled Media' Label
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Last May, Facebook allegedly threatened to remove Maffick's pages unless it publicly represented that its channels were operated by the RT news subsidiary Ruptly. ...
- 'Washington Post,' 'New York Times,' NBC Walk Back Giuliani FBI Briefing Reports
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, May 3, 2021
The news outlets state that a briefing on Russian interference was prepared, but never delivered for Rudy Giuliani. ...
- Zenith: After Falling Nearly 9% In 2020, Telecom Ad Spending Poised To Expand Through 2023
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Monday, March 22, 2021
Fueled by demand for new smartphones, as well as the rollout of 5G spectrum, telecommunications industry ad spending is expected to expand an average of 4.5% annually through 2023, accordi ...
- Twitter Slowed By Russian Authorities For Banned Content
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 11, 2021
Russian authorities Wednesday said they slowed the speed of users' uploading of photos and videos to Twitter in the country because the company failed to remove banned content. ...
- Yandex Says It Caught Employee Selling Access To Inboxes
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 15, 2021
Yandex, a Russian search engine, disclosed that it had caught an employee selling access to user email accounts. The company is now notifying the owners of the 4,887 compromised mailboxes.&nbs ...
- Toyota Overtakes BMW In Google Search
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 25, 2021
COVID-19 challenged the car-buying process in 2020, but not when it came to consumers' searches. Toyota overtook BMW as the most-queried car manufacturer in search last year worldwide across ...
- Russia Is Meddling In The Presidential Election - Again. What New Tricks Can We Expect?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
If you are an advertiser supporting iffy media platforms on TV, print and social media, consider your responsibilities to your brand -- and your customers. ...
- 'Deepfake' Political Ads Banned At Last Minute By Local Fox, CNN and MSNBC Affiliates
MAD, Larissa Faw - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
The ads feature AI overlays -- known as deepfake technology -- of North Korea's Kim Jong-Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin respectively, speaking about the fragility of the U.S. democracy. T ...
- Microsoft Bing Wins Google Auction Search Slots On Android Phones In Key Countries
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
The Google auction for search slots on Android devices demonstrates that Bing has a following. ...
- All The President's Men, Yet Again
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Friday, September 11, 2020
Nineteen years after terrorists used our own commercial airline industry as weapons of mass destruction against us, new information is coming to light about an equally nefarious, but far le ...
- Facebook Urges Judge To Dismiss Maffick Lawsuit Over 'State-Controlled Media' Label
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Facebook says Maffick's libel lawsuit should be dismissed, arguing that the "state-controlled media" label is an opinion, protected by the First Amendment. ...
- Google Deletes 2,600 China-Linked YouTube Channels
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 6, 2020
Google has removed about 2,600 YouTube channels its Threat Analysis Group says were connected with a "coordinated influence operation" from China. It also deleted channels connected with Russia and Iran durin ...
- Facebook Sued Over 'Russia State-Controlled Media' Label
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 4, 2020
The company Maffick, which operates the social media pages "In the Now," "Soapbox," and "Waste-Ed," has sued Facebook for attaching a label reading "Russia state-controlled media" to the channels. ...
- Russian Cyber Gang Attempts Two-Pronged BEC Scam: Agari
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Cosmic Lynx targets employees at the VP level while impersonating outside legal counsel in a purported M&A transaction. ...
- Russian Cyberspies Employ Updated Malware: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Security researchers have discovered a new version of the ComRAT malware that is being used by the Russian hacker group Turla. It is controlled through the Gmail web interface. ...
- Kremlin's Influence On Yandex During Lockdown Could Threaten Its Existence
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, May 11, 2020
Yandex has begun to transition some of its services to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has rebuilt its taxi driver service to deliver groceries and food, as well ...
- White House Works With Online Collaborative Community To Improve Visibility Of COVID-19 Information
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Organizations can add standard tags to website codes, making COVID-19 content easier for web crawlers to find and serve in query results. ...
- Russian-Backed Ads Are Back In 2020 - Will Facebook, TV Buy In?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, February 24, 2020
The Russians are coming again... to U.S. media! All to help President Trump win the presidency, again. ...
- Facebook Prevails In Battle With Russian 'News' Agency
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 15, 2020
In a victory for Facebook, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the Russian company "Federal Agency of News," which claimed its free speech rights were violated when ...
- 'Truth' In Advertising Struggles As Platforms Twitter, Spotify Reject Political Ads
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 30, 2019
Truth in political advertising and earned media will remain a major theme in 2020, after companies such as Spotify and Twitter reported they would no longer allow political advertising ...
- Russia Passes Laws Labelling Journalists As 'Foreign Agents'
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 4, 2019
President Putin has signed a new law that labels any journalist or blogger whose content earns money outside of Russia as a "foreign agent," "The Guardian" reports. ...
- Boris Urged To Release Russian Interference Report
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, November 14, 2019
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has written to the Prime Minister urging the release of a report allegedly detailing Russian interference in British politics. "Press Gazette" reveals that the bure ...
- PlayStation Store Won't Sell New 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' In Russia
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, October 23, 2019
It could be Sony doesn't want to have much to do with "Modern Warfare" because it imagines a Cold War-like Russia in bloody combat. ...
- Helen Mirren Makes Catherine Great Again
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, October 21, 2019
The Oscar winner for "The Queen" stars in the title role of "Catherine the Great" on HBO and plays the part seamlessly. ...
- Facebook Lets Trump Smear Biden In Ad
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 10, 2019
The social networking platform says it won't vet political ads because it doesn't want to "referee political debates." ...
- The Media Math Behind Russian Meddling
Marketing Politics Weekly, Ed DeNicola - Wednesday, October 9, 2019
The Mueller investigation confirmed that the Russians meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. However, it is not believed to have had a material impact on the outcome of t ...
- Why Social Media Influence On The 2020 Election Will Look A Lot Like 2016
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, October 9, 2019
The Senate Intel Committee released a bipartisan report Tuesday on Russia's use of social media to influence U.S. elections and it appears likely to have the same impact previous repor ...
