- 'Editor & Publisher' Plays April Fool's Joke On Readers
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, April 2, 2021
Publication says it is acquiring the Gannett newspaper chain. ...
- New Tool Helps Ad Buyers Choose Sites That Reflect A Company's Values
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
NewsGuard offers both inclusion and exclusion capabilities for programmatic advertisers. ...
- Attorneys General Urge Facebook And Twitter To Ban Anti-Vaxxers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Facebook and Twitter should more aggressively combat misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, 12 attorneys general say in letters to the companies. ...
- Google Blocked 99 Million Fake COVID-19 Ads
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 17, 2021
The blocked topics range from fake miracle cures and vaccine doses to counterfeit N95 masks. Google's annual Ads Safety Report detailed the company's 2020 efforts to combat misinformation. ...
- House Democrats Pressure Facebook Over Ads For Weapons Accessories
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 8, 2021
"We strongly believe Facebook has a moral obligation to take action regarding ads that stoke aggression," the lawmakers said. ...
- Computer Repair Shop Owner Revives Battle With Twitter Over Hunter Biden Email Story
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 2, 2021
A computer repair shop owner is pressing to move forward with a defamation lawsuit against Twitter over its handling of a factually disputed "New York Post" story regarding President J ...
- Study: Americans Worry About Fake News Exposure
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Truth and facts are no longer objective; they depend on ideology. Pew reports that many voters rely on "divergent media ecosystems." ...
- What If We Turned Back The Clock On Media?
Media Insider, Maarten Albarda - Friday, February 19, 2021
I would enjoy a world where social media was used for just that: to be social. ...
- Maryland Ad Tax Will Backfire, Business Groups Argue In Court Challenge
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 18, 2021
Far from stemming fake news or hate speech, Maryland's new tax on digital ads will leave the internet "overrun by low-quality 'junk,'" the Chamber of Commerce, Internet Association and othe ...
- Fox Business Drops 'Lou Dobbs Tonight,' Its Highest-Rated Show, Day After $2.7B Defamation Suit
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Sunday, February 7, 2021
Fox Business cancelled its longtime host show a day after Fox News Media was hit with a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit from election voting-machine maker Smartmatic. ...
- Fox, Three News Hosts, Trump Lawyers Hit With $2.7B Defamation Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, February 5, 2021
Elections equipment company Smartmatic charges that Fox News made more than 100 false statements claiming that Smartmatic rigged the U.S. 2020 presidential election. ...
- Silencing Of Trump Produces Strange Peace Across The Land
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, January 29, 2021
Ever since ex-President Trump was muzzled by social-media, our world seems noticeably calmer. ...
- Media Supplier of the Year: The Mainstream Media (a.k.a. "Fake News")
Agency of the Year, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
After four years of being incessantly marginalized as “fake news” from the highest office possible, America’s mainstream news media rose to the occasion in what would have been a difficu ...
- President Biden Assails TV Lies Told For 'Power And Profit'
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, January 25, 2021
After the election, Newsmax, Fox News Channel and One America News -- without a shred of evidence -- screamed fraud, forgetting that Trump-appointed judges threw such claims out of co ...
- AI Sways Judgment On Breaking News, Misinformation, Study Suggests
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 21, 2021
Should social media and search engines lean on AI to determine whether news informs or misinforms? Research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests AI can help readers make better judgements ...
- Platform Censorship: He Has Only Himself To Blame
MediaDailyNews, George Simpson - Thursday, January 14, 2021
Now everyone seems to agree that continuing to give Trump direct access to a massive audience is not in the interest of our country. ...
- It's The Disinformation, Stupid
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, December 28, 2020
As 2020 comes to an end, will next year return to a more balanced sense of reality? You know, one based on facts, not divisive demagoguery? ...
- YouTube Temporarily Bans OANN For Posting COVID-19 Cure Video
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 24, 2020
YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week after it uploaded a video promoting a COVID-19 cure. "After careful review, we removed a vid ...
- Trump Actually Won The Election By A Landslide
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Monday, November 23, 2020
That's what the Trump campaign told me in an email over the weekend. It makes me wish for some kind of vetting process from Google on the political misinformation th ...
- Big Increase In Conservative Sites Publishing Fake News About Voter Fraud, Election
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Thursday, November 19, 2020
NewsGuard has cataloged more than 100 "unreliable" websites, including Bongino.com, Breitbart.com, InfoWars.com, OANN.com, RedState,com, RushLimbaugh.com and TheFederalist.com. ...
- Welcome To My 'Parler,' Said The Spider To The Flies
Mobile Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, November 12, 2020
Platforms like Twitter have shown real vigilance to slow the spread of disinformation -- which may fuel an exodus of users to even more unsavory places. ...
- Dear United States: You Should Think Differently About Public Broadcasting
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, November 10, 2020
In my ongoing discussion about how to support true and reliable journalism, there is one option I haven't talked about: public broadcasting. ...
- YouTube Refuses To Kill Video Claiming Trump Victory, Election Fraud
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 5, 2020
YouTube removed ads from the video, from Trump-promoting, right-wing One America News Network, because it violates YouTube policies by "undermining confidence in elections with demonstrably false information," says one spokesperso ...
- Google Jigsaw Demonstrates Link Between Search Engines And Conspiracy Theories, Misinformation
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Combating conspiracy theories and removing dangerously misleading content has been daunting during the 2020 election period for tech firms. ...
- Google Finds Balance With Election Results, As Social Media Flounders
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Social media overall -- Facebook, Twitter and YouTube -- did a poor job of handling premature claims on election night and into the following day. ...
- Analyzing The Problems With Analytical Content
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Fake news? There is simply too much analytical superstructure built on top of the few real journalists doing real reporting. ...
- This Just In From The Mars News Channel...
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Friday, October 30, 2020
A startling insight from Ipsos suggests many Americans won't accept the outcome of next week's election because they come from another planet: Fox News. ...
- Enquiring Minds Want To Know How Rupert Murdoch Became David Pecker
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Monday, October 19, 2020
Rupert Murdoch's media empire arguably did more than any other source to help the President get elected in 2016, and it appears to be doing everything it can to he ...
- Insiders: Fox News Project Aims To Push Baseless Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories
Around the Net In Digital, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 15, 2020
Fox News insiders say that a so-called "Election Integrity Project" is really meant to provide support for and trumpet Trump's baseless election irregularities claims, reports The Daily Beast. ...
- Facebook And Twitter Restrict 'New York Post' Story About Biden
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 14, 2020
President Trump blasted Facebook and Twitter for taking steps to prevent people from spreading a controversial "New York Post" story about Democratic candidate Joe Biden. ...
