- As Deepfakes Get Better, The Onus Is On Us To Determine Trustworthiness
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, July 31, 2020
Deepfakes have become terrifyingly good, as in a video of Nixon deliveri ...
- FTC's Chopra Says Congress May Need To Revisit Tech Companies' 'Privileges'
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 16, 2020
Congress may need 'to reassess the special privileges afforded to tech platform ...
- Millennials, Gen Z: What They Really Think About Today's News
Marketing Insider, Paul Neto - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Social media has long been blamed for falsely spreading "fake news," b ...
- Fox News Site Removes Digitally Altered Protest Photos After Newspaper's Inquiry
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, June 15, 2020
An image of a masked man with an assault weapon was add ...
- Biden Demands Facebook Ban Election Misinformation, Including False Ads
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, June 12, 2020
Biden's social media/petition campaign, dubbed #MoveFastFixIt," demands that Facebook prevent candidates a ...
- Ad Campaign Calls For Google Breakup As Alphabet Shareholder Meeting Begins
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Freedom From Facebook & Google has launched a digital ad campaign targeti ...
- We Need A New Facebook For The Rest of Us
MediaDailyNews, George Simpson - Thursday, May 28, 2020
To everyone who is NOT a Trumper, Nazi, racist or fascist: Clo ...
- Fox News Defeats Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Comments
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Siding with Fox News, a judge in Washington state has thrown o ...
- Twitter Dodges Demands To Discipline Trump
Social Media Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The latest problem involves Trump tweeting baseless theories that MSNBC "Morning Jo ...
- Zuckerberg Defends Facebook Over COVID-19 Fake News Fears
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, May 22, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg has taken to the airwaves via "BBC News' to defe ...
- Fake News Case 'Cannot Proceed In An American Court,' Fox Tells Judge
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 21, 2020
A lawsuit accusing the cable network of spreading false information about COVID- ...
- Puerto Rico Fake News Law Faces Challenge
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 20, 2020
A new Puerto Rico law criminalizing "fake news" about emergencies like COVID- ...
- Fox News Presses Judge To Throw Out Claims Over COVID-19 Commentary
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 18, 2020
Fox News is slamming a Washington state nonprofit's "dangerous" and "frivolous" argume ...
- WSJ Identifies Thousands Of Links On Google That Vanished
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 15, 2020
A copyright claim citing a 1998 law led Google to make unfavorab ...
- Sinclair Hid Paid Advertising - And Paid A High Price For The Deception
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 11, 2020
The big TV station group was fined $48 million by the F ...
- NewsGuard Identifies 10 'Super-Spreaders' Of COVID-19 Untruths
Publishing Insider, - Friday, May 8, 2020
Just as the coronavirus has "super-spreaders," inaccurate reporting has carriers that a ...
- 'Fake News' President's 'Trust' Falls To Lowest Level Yet, Lags Biden 4-to-1
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, May 5, 2020
After years of calling America's major news outlets "fake news," the President ...
- MPs Blast Tech Giants' Response To COVID-19 Fake News
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, May 1, 2020
MPs have blasted the tech giants for a lack of acceptable answe ...
- Are Deep Fake Ads Coming To Traditional TV?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Consider State Farm's ad, via ESPN, about the 1988 Chicago Bulls sea ...
- Government Tackles 70 COVID-19 Fake News Stories Per Week
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, April 23, 2020
The team set up by the Government to tackle COVID-19 misinformation ...
- More Than 400 Online COVID-19 Scam Shops Closed Down
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, April 21, 2020
The National Cyber Security Centre has told the "BBC" it has sh ...
- Facebook Points Fake News Likers To WHO's COVID-19 Page
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, April 17, 2020
Facebook is to roll out posts pushing people to check out factu ...
- Facebook Alerts Users To COVID-19 Misinformation
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, April 16, 2020
The move is part of a much larger effort to slow t ...
- Facebook Sues Software Developer For Allegedly Circumventing Ad Review Filters
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 9, 2020
Facebook has sued the founder of LeadCloak for allegedly enabling advertisers ...
- Prominent Figures Filling Apps With Fake News
Mobile Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Researchers found misinformation from prominent figures made up 20% of the clai ...
- Fox News Sued Over COVID-19 Commentary
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 6, 2020
Fox's "malicious misrepresentation and false information deprived the public of information necessa ...
- Google To Fund Drive To Tackle COVID-19 Fake News
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, April 6, 2020
Google has set up a $6.5m fund to tackle fake news ...
- COVID-19 Emails Attributed To Johns Hopkins Are Fake, University Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 6, 2020
The alleged false reports include an "excellent summary." The university says ...
- 74 Journalism Professors Write Open Letter To Murdochs, Criticizing Fox News Coverage Of COVID-19
Around the Net In Digital, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, April 3, 2020
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- Nearly Two In Three Have Seen Fake COVID-19 News On Social
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, April 3, 2020
Research by Channel 4 not only shows that its viewing figures a ...