- 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
Performance Marketing 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
Performance Marketing 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 ...
- Some Display Ad Spend Supports Misinformation Sites
Publishing Insider, - Friday, August 6, 2021
Advertisers are spending $2.6 billion a year on websites that publish fal ...
- 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 ...
- Apple, Google, Facebook: Regulation Roller Coaster Could Lead To China-Like Moves In U.S.
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 26, 2021
"We're on the verge of having platforms and companies so powerful a ...
- Search: WHO's Next Step To Rid The Web Of Misinformation
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 23, 2021
"We pour out too much content," says Christopher Strebel, manager of DC ...
- Judge Throws Out Vaccine Critics' 'Censorship' Lawsuit Against Facebook
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 1, 2021
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr ...
- Publicis Integrates 'Disinformation' Ratings Into Programmatic Buys, To Power Public Health Campaign
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, May 25, 2021
In a major endorsement of news veracity rating system NewsGuard, Publicis Grou ...
- Cancel 'Red, White & Blog,' Please!
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, May 19, 2021
I only ask because I'm growing weary of the harangue of F ...
- Contextual Ad Net Begins Filtering Publishers For Fake COVID News, Other Misinformation
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
In response to advertisers voicing concerns about their ads showing up ...
- You Don't Need To Be A Weatherman To Know The Veracity Of Fox News Blows
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, May 12, 2021
On the eve of Fox News' upfront ad pitch, a top Wa ...
- NextGen TV May Be Able To Fact-Check News Content
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 23, 2021
Some reports suggest ATSC 3.0 might also be a tool to identi ...
- 'Editor & Publisher' Plays April Fool's Joke On Readers
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, April 2, 2021
Publication says it is acquiring the Gannett newspaper chain. ...