- 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 ...
- Should Spreading COVID-19 Fake News Be An Offence?
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, April 3, 2020
As Conservative MP Damian Collins helped to launch a fact-checking website f ...
- Is COVID-19 The UK's Fake News Moment?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, April 3, 2020
Social media regulation is already being considered. Surely the Government will co ...
- Bots Take On Human Behavior, As Google, Facebook Work To Stop Misinformation
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 3, 2020
Advanced bots make it easy to exploit platforms and spread disinformation abo ...
- Government Unit Finds COVID-19 Fake News Read More Than NHS Content
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, March 30, 2020
A fact-checking unit set up by the Government is tackling ten ...
- COVID-19 Misinformation Sites Monetised By Google
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, March 30, 2020
"Press Gazette" reveals new research has found Google is inadvertently monetising fa ...
- 'Trump Health Bombshell': Pro-Prez E-Letter Raises Funds, Carries Cure-All Ads
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, March 30, 2020
One ad implies that the President has benefitted from a purported st ...
- Lies, Damn Lies And COVID-19 Fake News
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Monday, March 30, 2020
We must applaud our key workers, but also call out the growi ...
- Social News Consumers Least Likely To Read About COVID-19
Publishing Insider, - Thursday, March 26, 2020
People who mostly depend on social media for news only make ...
- Twitter Bans Misinformation On COVID-19
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 20, 2020
Twitter has widened its rules on banned content to include anything th ...
- Government Works With Big Tech Companies To Tackle Coronavirus Fake News
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The Government is working with Google, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to tack ...
- James Murdoch Launches Accelerator To Tackle Fake News
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 6, 2020
"The Telegraph" brings news that James Murdoch has set up an accelerat ...
- New Worry: Covid-19 Scams That Carry Their Own Kind Of Viruses
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, March 5, 2020
Cybersecurity firm Check Point reports a big uptick in phony domains a ...
- Standards To Combat Fake Reviews Needed As Trust Erodes
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 6, 2020
Nearly three-quarters of consumers want the retail industry to set new standar ...
- Twitter Tests Feature To Correct Fake Information
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, February 21, 2020
Under the headline "Harmfully Misleading," the box includes the following warning: "Twitt ...
- No, It's Not A Deepfake. Yes, The Language Matters
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, February 14, 2020
Trump co-opted the term "fake news," so let's be careful with "deepfake ...
- How Blockchain Technology Might Battle 'Fake News'
Publishing Insider, - Thursday, January 23, 2020
"Deepfake" videos that swap out a person's face with someone else's a ...
- Consumers Seek Belief-Driven Brands As Income Inequality Undercuts Trust
Research Intelligencer, - Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Most consumers worldwide said the media they use are contaminated with untrustwort ...
- Journalists Give Highest Marks To Twitter, Google For Combating Disinformation
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Friday, January 10, 2020
Publishers of journalism worldwide give the highest marks to Twitter for combati ...