- Google Jigsaw Demonstrates Link Between Search Engines And Conspiracy Theories, Misinformation
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Combating conspiracy theories and removing dangerously misleading content has been daunting duri ...
- Google Finds Balance With Election Results, As Social Media Flounders
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Social media overall -- Facebook, Twitter and YouTube -- did a po ...
- Analyzing The Problems With Analytical Content
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Fake news? There is simply too much analytical superstructure built on t ...
- This Just In From The Mars News Channel...
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Friday, October 30, 2020
A startling insight from Ipsos suggests many Americans won't accept the outco ...
- Enquiring Minds Want To Know How Rupert Murdoch Became David Pecker
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Monday, October 19, 2020
Rupert Murdoch's media empire arguably did more than any other source ...
- Insiders: Fox News Project Aims To Push Baseless Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories
Around the Net In Digital, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 15, 2020
Fox News insiders say that a so-called "Election Integrity Project" is real ...
- Facebook And Twitter Restrict 'New York Post' Story About Biden
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 14, 2020
President Trump blasted Facebook and Twitter for taking steps to prevent peop ...
- Malicious Cloned Sites, Malvertising Put Publishers, Advertisers, Consumers At Risk
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 5, 2020
Cloned versions of banks such as HSBC and Paragon Bank as we ...
- Political Leanings Affect News Habits, Opinions On Mail-In Voter Fraud
Publishing Insider, - Friday, September 18, 2020
The differing perceptions about the reliability of mail-in voting are worrisome, giv ...
- How Ted Cruz's Dad Ended A Presidency (No, Not That One)
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Thursday, September 10, 2020
It's fitting that analog media like books and newspapers may be t ...
- Facebook's Crackdown On Disguised News Has Pitfalls
Publishing Insider, - Thursday, August 13, 2020
One of the more miserable side effects of the loss of loc ...
- Consumers Of Print Media Tend To Be Best Informed About News
Publishing Insider, - Tuesday, August 4, 2020
One of the more worrisome findings in the Pew report is h ...
- 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 ...