- Twitter Permanently Bans Taylor Greene's Personal Account
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, January 3, 2022
Greene hit Twitter's five-strike limit with a New Year's Day post spreadi ...
- 892 Major Brands Run Digital Ads On Hundreds Of Sites Spreading Election Misinformation
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 3, 2022
81% of the 113 U.S. websites known to have spread election misinformati ...
- Hundreds Of Major Brands Still Funding Election Misinformation Sites
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Monday, January 3, 2022
"The vast majority of the sites spreading election misinformation a year a ...
- Insurrection Inciter Who?
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Monday, January 3, 2022
I had to chuckle when I got a request today not ...
- Best/Worst 'Informers' Of The Year
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Media veracity watchdog NewsGuard published its annual list of best and wor ...
- Facebook/Meta Named By Yahoo Finance Readers As Worst Company In 2021, Microsoft Best
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 17, 2021
Microsoft this year won by breaking through the $2 trillion market capitalizati ...
- Trump's $1B Attack On Truth
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, December 13, 2021
Trump Media & Technology Group has already raised $1 billion in fundi ...
- OpenWeb Partners With NewsGuard To Combat Misinformation
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 9, 2021
OpenWeb on Thursday announced a partnership with NewsGuard to help OpenWeb comb ...
- IPG Mediabrands Rating TV News Buys Based On Misinformation, Will Use In Upfront
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, December 2, 2021
The deal with NewsGuard is exclusive to IPG clients, and covers 1 ...
- Report Finds COVID-19 Superspreaders Still Spreading On Facebook, Twitter
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, November 30, 2021
The new analysis from NewsGuard finds 53% of Facebook's and 50% ...
- People Who Share Fake News Are Driven By A Need For Chaos, Resistant To Truth
Publishing Insider, Tony Silber - Monday, November 29, 2021
Low-conscientiousness conservatives (LCCs) are far more likely to disseminate misinformation than oth ...
- Report: Facebook, Google Fund Malign Clickbait Actors Through Ad Programs
Publishing Insider, Tony Silber - Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Google's AdSense program fueled the Macedonia- and Kosovo-based farms that targeted America ...
- Study: When It Comes To News, Twitter Is A Mixed Bag
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Monday, November 15, 2021
Pew's analysis covers areas including privacy, on-platform abuse and Republicans' and Democrat ...
- Journalists Fear 'Fake News' Harms Their Profession - But Unsure How To Combat
Publishing Insider, Tony Silber - Thursday, November 4, 2021
Respected mainstream media brands struggle every day with audience trust, due ...
- Neeva Search Engine Turns On NewsGuard Service
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Neeva, an ad-free subscription-based search startup founded by former head of Goog ...
- Analysis Reveals A Thousand Active Harmful Misinformation Facebook Groups
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Monday, November 1, 2021
Facebook's major rebrand to Meta is distracting. Media Matters for America, ...
- Senate Bill Threatens Web Companies With Lawsuits Over Recommendations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The "Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act" would allow people to s ...
- Social Net To Launch With Misinformation Filter, Touts A Brighter Future
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
In a deal with NewsGuard, Bright will launch later this year ...
- YouTube Clamps Down On Anti-Vax Videos
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
In a new crackdown on vaccine misinformation, YouTube on Wednesday removed vid ...
- Mozilla Tags TikTok In Misinformation Struggle
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 17, 2021
TikTok is struggling with misinformation. The platform removed nearly 350,000 videos wi ...
- Facebook, Google Profit Off 'Abortion Reversal' Ads Served To Minors, Study Shows
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 16, 2021
A report by The Center for Countering Digital Hate estimates advertisers ha ...
- Teaching, Preaching And Screeching: What's Wrong With Vaccine Messaging
MediaDailyNews, James Forr - Tuesday, September 14, 2021
It is perplexing, given our knowledge of decision-making, that public health leade ...
- An 'MRC' For Disinformation
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Should someone accredit the veracity of data that marketers use to ascerta ...
- Let's Talk About Trust
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, September 13, 2021
Faction -- the more salacious, the better -- often draws an audien ...
- Public Trust In Media Declines Amid Wider Partisan Divide
Publishing Insider, - Wednesday, September 8, 2021
The finding highlights the need for fact-based journalism to counter online misinformatio ...
- All The COVID News That's Unfit To Print: 519 And Counting
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, September 8, 2021
About 7.7% of news/information domains are publishing misinformation related to the pandemi ...
- Public Willingness To Restrict Online Freedom Is Worrisome
Publishing Insider, - Monday, August 23, 2021
The portion of U.S. adults who say the federal government should ado ...
- Facebook Reports Content Improvement, Concedes 'There Is No Perfect Here'
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Facebook released its Community Standards Enforcement Report for Q2 and its fir ...
- Facebook Allows Republican Fundraising Ads Falsely Linking COVID Surge To Migrants
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, August 11, 2021
The ads' central claim has been rejected by doctors and fact-checkers, not ...
- Why The Ad Industry Needs More Of A Collective Consciousness
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, August 9, 2021
It's little surprise that programmatic advertising underwrites lots of nefarious activities, includi ...