- 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. The ...
- 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 less ...
- 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 during, ...
- 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 as ...
- 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 it ...
- '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 on ...
- 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 bureau ...
- 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 the ...
- 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 reports ...
- Facebook Urges Judge To Dismiss Russian 'News' Company's Censorship Claims -- Again
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 17, 2019
The Russian company Federal Agency of News has no grounds to revive a lawsuit alleging that its account was wrongly taken down by Facebook, the social networking platform says in ...
- Russian 'News' Agency Renews Claims Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Aiming to revive a lawsuit against Facebook, the Russian company Federal Agency of News claims in new court papers that its account was removed as a result of a "conspiracy" ...
- Russia's Watchdog Orders Google To Stop Broadcasting 'Illegal Events' On YouTube
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, August 12, 2019
Russia's state communications watchdog has ordered Google to stop "advertising" illegal mass events in the country on YouTube in the wake of election protests. Observers describe the event as the ...
- Russian TV News Covers Food Fests, Not Massive Protests
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Russian riot police violently suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations across Moscow. This had some pro-Kremlin state news channels featuring a different top news item -- a city-sponsored barbecue
festival. ...
- Facebook Defeats Russian 'News' Agency's Censorship Claim
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Handing Facebook a victory, a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by the Russian company "Federal Agency of News," which claimed its First Amendment rights were violated when it ...
- FaceApp's Broad Privacy Policy Draws Scrutiny
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 18, 2019
Like many apps, FaceApp asks users for access to more information than it seemingly needs. ...
- Privacy Concerns Over FaceApp
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, July 18, 2019
Everyone's social feeds have probably been inundated with pictures of what people will look like in 40 years, but "The Guardian" has a privacy warning about FaceApp. It was launched ...
- Majority Of U.S. News Sites Have Trackers Sending Data To Russia
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 1, 2019
About 92% of major news sites in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Germany have active ad trackers that send readers behavioral data across international borders, mostly to Russia. ...
- Yandex Gets Hacked
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 28, 2019
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies reportedly broke into Yandex, a Google competitor based in Russia, searching for information on how Yandex authenticates user accounts. ...
