- 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. ...
- Malicious Cloned Sites, Malvertising Put Publishers, Advertisers, Consumers At Risk
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 5, 2020
Cloned versions of banks such as HSBC and Paragon Bank as well as global media sites experienced major losses and fake news this year. ...
- Political Leanings Affect News Habits, Opinions On Mail-In Voter Fraud
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, September 18, 2020
The differing perceptions about the reliability of mail-in voting are worrisome, given that any inkling of ballot fraud could undermine any candidate's claim to victory. ...
- How Ted Cruz's Dad Ended A Presidency (No, Not That One)
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Thursday, September 10, 2020
It's fitting that analog media like books and newspapers may be the undoing of this Presidency, given the way Russia and Cambridge Analytica utilized sophisticated, illicit methods to turn o ...
- Facebook's Crackdown On Disguised News Has Pitfalls
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Thursday, August 13, 2020
One of the more miserable side effects of the loss of local newspapers is the rush to fill the void with partisan websites that pose as local publications. ...
- Consumers Of Print Media Tend To Be Best Informed About News
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Tuesday, August 4, 2020
One of the more worrisome findings in the Pew report is how susceptible social-media users are to fake news claims. ...
- As Deepfakes Get Better, The Onus Is On Us To Determine Trustworthiness
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, July 31, 2020
Deepfakes have become terrifyingly good, as in a video of Nixon delivering the speech he would have given if the moon lander had crashed. ...
- FTC's Chopra Says Congress May Need To Revisit Tech Companies' 'Privileges'
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 16, 2020
Congress may need 'to reassess the special privileges afforded to tech platforms, especially given their vast power to curate and present content in ways that may manipulate users,' FTC Commission ...
- Millennials, Gen Z: What They Really Think About Today's News
Marketing Insider, Paul Neto - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Social media has long been blamed for falsely spreading "fake news," but Gen Z-ers and millennials are taking it all in with a grain of salt. ...
- Fox News Site Removes Digitally Altered Protest Photos After Newspaper's Inquiry
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, June 15, 2020
An image of a masked man with an assault weapon was added to two photos in the site's coverage of Seattle's largely peaceful "autonomous zone" protests, and a photo ...
- Biden Demands Facebook Ban Election Misinformation, Including False Ads
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, June 12, 2020
Biden's social media/petition campaign, dubbed #MoveFastFixIt," demands that Facebook prevent candidates and PACs from using paid ads to spread lies and misinformation, particularly within two weeks of the election, ...
- Ad Campaign Calls For Google Breakup As Alphabet Shareholder Meeting Begins
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Freedom From Facebook & Google has launched a digital ad campaign targeting Google employees, investors and analysts, and is now calling for the breakup of the company Larry Page a ...
- We Need A New Facebook For The Rest of Us
MediaDailyNews, George Simpson - Thursday, May 28, 2020
To everyone who is NOT a Trumper, Nazi, racist or fascist: Close down your account and wait for someone else to open "Facebook II." ...
