- Mozilla Tags TikTok In Misinformation Struggle
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 17, 2021
TikTok is struggling with misinformation. The platform removed nearly 350,000 videos wi ...
- Texas-Led State Coalition Seeks To Revive Florida Curbs On Social Media Platforms
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 16, 2021
Attorneys general from Texas and nine other states are supporting Florida ...
- Facebook XCheck Reveals Celebs, Politicians Get Special Treatment, 'Immunity' From Content Enforcement
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, September 13, 2021
A Facebook program known as XCheck gives millions of celebrities, politicians a ...
- Florida Asks Appellate Court To Reistate Restrictions On Social Media Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 9, 2021
"The Florida Legislature permissibly determined that the 'old rules' applicable to comm ...
- Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Social Platforms From 'Censoring' Posts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 9, 2021
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday signed a law that prohibits Twitte ...
- Animal Rights Activists Sue Government For Suppressing Comments On Social Media
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 9, 2021
The National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Hum ...
- Misinformation Peaks, Ad Tech Rushes To Protect Brands
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 9, 2021
Martech company Sightly and Ad Fontes Media, which measures media bias, ha ...
- Amazon Plans To Police And Remove More Content From Cloud Services
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 3, 2021
The plan aims to "determine what types of content violate its clo ...
- Computer Repair Shop Owner Who Lost Defamation Case Must Pay Twitter's Legal Bills
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 2, 2021
The computer repair shop owner who unsuccessfully claimed he was defamed ...
- Apple Has Scanned iCloud Emails For Child Sexual Abuse Content Since 2019: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 27, 2021
The news follows the announcement that Apple will begin scanning photos ...
- Artificial Lack Of Intelligence
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, August 27, 2021
Four years ago, I stood onstage and introduced people to the te ...
- Trump Seeks Court Order Forcing YouTube To Restore Channel
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Trump's lawyers argue that his permanent suspension from YouTube is causing h ...
- Facebook Squelched An Earlier, More Negative, Content Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 23, 2021
It turns out that Facebook's Widely Viewed Content Report, released with mu ...
- DoubleVerify Bows Publisher Inventory Compatibility Score
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, August 20, 2021
Tool lets publishers assess how advertisers view the appropriateness of their invent ...
- Facebook Sued Over 'Scam Ads'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 12, 2021
The class-action complaint states that "Facebook users continue to be bilked o ...
- Google Ads To Block Targeting Based On Age, Gender, Interests For Kids
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Google Ads in the coming months will expand its safeguards to preve ...
- Evolution of UGC: From MTV To TikTok
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, August 9, 2021
I have two stories to tell, one about how UGC began, a ...
- Apple The Autocrat: Tech Firm Announces Plan To Track Presumed Child Pornography Uploads
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 6, 2021
The Electronic Frontier Foundation denounces the effort as a potential privacy violatio ...
- Heading Out: Yelp Vaccine Conundrum That Could Influence Google And Bing
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 6, 2021
Businesses will soon need "labels" for directories and on search engines ...
- Zoom Agrees To $85 Million Settlement Over Encryption, Data Sharing And Zoombombing
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Video-conferencing service Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle ...
- YouTube Suspends Sky News Australia For COVID Misinformation
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 2, 2021
The media outlet's site apologized for old videos that violate YouTube's poli ...
- MyPillow Yanks Fox News Ads
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, July 30, 2021
The CEO of MyPillow, which spent nearly $50 million on Fox Ne ...
- Facebook To Prohibit Companies From Serving Behaviorally Targeted Ads To Minors
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Facebook plans to prohibit advertisers from targeting ads to users under ...
- DoubleVerify Adds Brand-Safety Solution To YouTube, Offers Turnkey Safety-Floor Option
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Advertisers can now use brand-safety floor controls and suitability tiers on YouTub ...
- Texas Probe Of Twitter Over Trump Ban Violates First Amendment, Civil Rights Groups Argue
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 26, 2021
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's probe of Twitter's editorial decisions "inflicted inju ...
- Ad Fontes TV Reliability, Bias Ratings Launches, Former CBS TV Prez Appointed To Board
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, July 25, 2021
Former CBS television network president Elizabeth Tumulty and several other key exe ...
- Vaccine Critics Seek To Revive Free Speech Claims Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 23, 2021
Children's Health Defense, an organization founded by vaccine critic Robert F. Kenned ...
- Google Rolls Out Spam-Blocking Feature In Google Drive
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, July 26, 2021
The spam-blocking tool, announced two years ago, enables users to block oth ...
- Appeals Court Confirms Vimeo Victory In Suit By 'Former Homosexual'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 22, 2021
An appeals court has reaffirmed its earlier ruling that "former homosexual" Jam ...
- Bill Seeks To Strip Websites Of Protections For False COVID-19 Information Posted By Users
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 22, 2021
President Joe Biden recently accused Facebook of "killing people" by allowing fal ...