- Verified Accounts, 'Community Notes' Perpetuate Misinformation On X, Study Finds
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, December 21, 2023
New research shows the new verification system is proliferating misinformation on t ...
- California Kids Safety Law Draws Support From Watchdogs, FTC Commissioner
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 21, 2023
California's controversial Age-Appropriate Design Code a valid regulation of "data capitalism," Fairpla ...
- AI Data Trained On Models Containing Child Sexual Abuse
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 20, 2023
LAION-5B, a dataset used to build AI images that has more th ...
- Discord Threatens To Ban Users For Mistreatment Of Trans People
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, December 15, 2023
Discord updated its hateful conduct policy to protect transgender users from abu ...
- Meta To Expand Fact-Checking Program To Threads
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Meta has asked fact-checking partners working with Instagram and Facebook to revi ...
- Etsy, eBay, Others Weigh In Against Texas And Florida Content Moderation Laws
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 7, 2023
Etsy, eBay and Yelp have joined a growing list of companies a ...
- Advertisers Challenged By TikTok Deepfakes Of Hamas Victims
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 5, 2023
TikTok has had difficulty moderating deepfake videos of Hamas victims as bran ...
- Florida And Texas Content Moderation Laws Create 'Chaos,' Press Advocates Tell Court
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Media Law Resource Center is urging the Supreme Court to stri ...
- Meta Takes Down Almost 5,000 Fake China-Based Facebook Accounts
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, December 1, 2023
The accounts may have been created to influence the 2024 U.S. presidenti ...
- The Delusion List
Planning & Buying Insider, Joe Mandese - Friday, December 1, 2023
The shift from "exclusion" to "inclusion" lists is perhaps the most importa ...
- Google Bard Analyzes Visuals, Text To Summarize YouTube Content
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 28, 2023
A previous update gave Bard the ability to analyze YouTube videos, b ...
- Instagram Places Ads Alongside Child-Sexualizing Reels Targeting Teen Influencer Followers: Report
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Instagram reportedly recommended Reels containing "risque footage of children as well ...
- Google Search Ads Found Showing In Porn, Other Questionable Places
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Google Search Partners, a network of third-party sites, has been serving so ...
- Mayor Of Paris Anne Hidalgo Quits X, Calls Platform A Democracy Killer
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, November 27, 2023
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo calls X a "tool for destroying our democracie ...
- ACLU, Others Blast X Corp's Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Speech Watchdog
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 24, 2023
A victory for X Corp. against the anti-hate speech nonprofit Center f ...
- NFL Continues To Advertise On X Despite Pressure From Broadcast Networks
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, November 22, 2023
The NFL says it will continue to advertise on X - althou ...
- Musk's X Sues Media Matters, Alleges It Manipulated Algorithms
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 21, 2023
The lawsuit claims that the watchdog Media Matters for America manipulated t ...
- Musk, Anti-Semitism And Wearing A Muzzle
MediaDailyNews, Ed DeNicola - Tuesday, November 21, 2023
If Musk can muzzle it, and X can improve brand safety, C ...
- Hateful Content - All Costs: Is There A CPM?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Advertisers running away from edgy, controversial content on a media platform? ...
- Meta, Louboutin File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeit Seller
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, November 20, 2023
The suit claims the defendant violated Meta's and Instagram's Terms of Servi ...
- Anti-Hate Speech Group Blasts Claims It Scared Off X Corp's Advertisers
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 17, 2023
"Apparently unhappy with how it is faring in the marketplace of idea ...
- And That's The Way It Wasn't: Why Social Media Is No Place To Get Your News
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Friday, November 17, 2023
"What is happening at TikTok is it is creating the biggest antisemit ...
- Video Chat Site Omegle Shuts Down Due To Sex Abuse Suit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 10, 2023
Video chat service Omegle, which matched random users with each other f ...
- Judge Won't Force YouTube To Restore RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vax Videos
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 8, 2023
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Kennedy's claim that YouTube violated t ...
- Meta Bans Political Advertisers, Campaigns From Using Generative AI Ad Tools
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, November 7, 2023
One month after rolling out various generative AI tools to advertisers, Me ...
- Fortune 500s Account for 45% Of Ads On Fake And Divisive CTV Channels
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 7, 2023
About 10,000 of 50,000 channels presenting themselves as CTV channels were fou ...
- YouTube's New Teen Safeguards Limit Specific Video Recommendations
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, November 2, 2023
YouTube has reworked its content-recommendation approaches and "take a break" reminders, whi ...
- Google AI, YouTube Exclude Topics To Deliver Ads Responsibly
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, November 2, 2023
Marketers now have ways to exclude topics when advertising on YouTube a ...
- California AG Battles X Over Law Requiring Platforms To Disclose Content Policies
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 30, 2023
"California has a substantial interest in requiring social media companies to ...
- Online Gamblers Battle Apple, Meta And Google Over Casino Apps
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 26, 2023
Apple, Google and Meta "broker the transfer of billions of dollars fr ...