- Regardless Of Who Loses The Election Meddling Controversy, Russia Wins
Social Media Insider, Erik Sass - Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Our enemies can only benefit when ordinary Americans start to question t ...
- Las Vegas Shooting Aftermath Shows Fake News Is Alive And Well
Publishing Insider, Erik Sass - Tuesday, October 3, 2017
All too predictably, the mass murder committed at the Route 91 op ...
- Social Media Ads Can't Pass The TV Test
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Can you tell what is a Russian-backed fake news/message? It may n ...
- Google Algorithm Fail Shows Readers Must Fact-Check News, As With Las Vegas Massacre
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 2, 2017
Many people think the carousel of stories at the top of Goog ...
- SEC Forming Cyber Unit
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission is forming a Cyber Unit, which wi ...
- President Obama Petitioned Zuckerberg To Fight 'Fake News'
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, September 25, 2017
In late November of 2016, President Obama personally petitioned Mark Zuckerberg ...
- Facebook Stops Advertisers Changing News Headlines
Publishing Insider, Erik Sass - Monday, September 18, 2017
Facebook is now forbidding the practice of rewriting or editing news artic ...
- It's Time To Regulate Facebook
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, September 18, 2017
Facebook's tepid disclosure last week that Russian operatives placed thousands of pa ...
- Thanks To Technology, Propaganda Is Now Exponential
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, September 15, 2017
Remember when propaganda used to be straightforward? It came in the fo ...
- 'Disputed' Tag Hardly Deters Facebook News Readers
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, September 12, 2017
On Facebook, tagging false news stories as “disputed by third party fact-checkers&rdqu ...
- We CAN'T Relax -- And It's Because Of The News
Media Insider, Cory Treffiletti - Wednesday, September 13, 2017
When I was in college, I took some journalism classes (that's ki ...
- Fake News Prompts A Flight To Quality -- But How To Monetise It?
MAD London, Brian Kane - Monday, September 11, 2017
The news cycle of US and UK elections has driven readers ...
- Journalists Attribute Rise Of Fake News To Social Media
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Friday, September 8, 2017
Social media is a double-edged sword. A vital part of the mode ...
- Former MP Apologises Over Fake Donald Trump Claims
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Louise Mensch has apologised for a series of tweets alleging investigations in ...
- Facebook Refuses To Carry Ads From Fake News Sources
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, August 28, 2017
Continuing its crackdown on "fake news," Facebook will no longer let publishe ...
- Two Speeches Demonstrate Trump's Unheralded Mastery Of Oratory
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, August 25, 2017
Each in their own way, the two speeches were quite different, b ...
- Jones Of 'Infowars' Continues Media Fight, Launches NewsWars.com
Publishing Insider, Erik Sass - Tuesday, August 15, 2017
What's the difference between Infowars and Newswars in terms of content? ...
- Trump Retweets Fake Account
Social Media Insider, Erik Sass - Wednesday, August 9, 2017
The President was duped into sharing a tweet from a person masqueradi ...
- 400+ Brands Advertise On Fake News Or Conspiracy Sites
Digital News Daily, Philip Rosenstein - Friday, August 4, 2017
Storyzy, an ad-tech startup that uses AI and natural-language processing to ro ...
- Surreal News: How Trump's Bypassing Media, With A Little Help From Some Friends
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, August 7, 2017
Of all the alternative facts cited by Donald J. Trump since ...
- Facebook Promises More Action Against Fake News
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, August 4, 2017
The BBC is reporting that Facebook is vowing to step up i ...
- Facebook Strengthens Fight Against Fake News
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, August 3, 2017
Facebook is expanding its Related Articles feature to fight "fake news" nationwid ...
- Millennial Votes Swung By Social, Older Demographics Prefer Papers
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, July 31, 2017
Millennials are more likely to have their political leanings swung by soci ...
- People Have Trouble Spotting 'Fake' Images
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, July 21, 2017
Partly explaining the success of “fake news,” people are pretty bad ...
- Making Sense Of A Content-First Approach To Brand Safety
Digital News Daily, Tobi Elkin - Thursday, July 20, 2017
When it comes to addressing brand safety in programmatic, Amit Avner, Found ...
- Facebook Plans News Subs
Publishing Insider, Erik Sass - Thursday, July 20, 2017
It's no secret that publishers have a "love-hate" relationship with Facebook, recent ...
- 1 in 3 Brits Trust The News Less Than Just Six Months Ago
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, July 13, 2017
A third of Britons trust the media less than they did s ...
- Fighting Fake News Requires Multi-Pronged Programmatic Approach
Digital News Daily, Amanda Bleich - Wednesday, July 12, 2017
A recent study by BrightRoll found that 96% of advertisers are concern ...
- Instant Articles Generates 2M Email Subscriptions To Date
Email Marketing Daily, Jess Nelson - Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Facebook has generated over 2 million email sign-ups resulting from the call-to-acti ...
- Local News Is The Front Line Of The Fake-News Fight
Publishing Insider, Erik Sass - Friday, July 7, 2017
Anyone who doubts the value of local newspapers in the 21st centu ...