- OpenAI Text Classifier Shuttered Based On Low Accuracy Rate
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Apparently it's a little more difficult than first thought to identify te ...
- Court Lifts Order Restricting Biden Admin's Contact With Social Platforms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 14, 2023
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted the Biden administration ...
- Watchdogs: Threads Already Compromised, Needs Content Guardrails ASAP
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, July 13, 2023
Instagram accounts pushing misinformation and hate speech have now simply been extend ...
- Biden Admin Asks Appellate Court To Lift Social-Media Restrictions
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 10, 2023
The July 4 injunction could be interpreted to ban "virtually any governme ...
- Masters Of The Fine Art Of Programmatic Exploitation
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, June 19, 2023
Blue-chip advertisers spend $13 billion annually funding "MFAs" (made-for-advertising websites) publishing fa ...
- Trust In Media Has Fallen, With Claims Of False Information: Study
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Subscribers in Slovakia were more likely than those in the U.S. ...
- Fox News Airs 'Dictator' On-Screen Content In Error: Ad Messaging Doesn't Follow
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 15, 2023
Fox News Channel didn't really mean to refer to President Biden ...
- Google Search Generative Experience Becomes Major Challenge For Publishers
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 12, 2023
While early concerns focused on GAI's potential to replace jobs and spre ...
- NewsGuard To Track AI-Generated Misinformation
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 8, 2023
NewsGuard has identified 150 low-quality "Unrelated AI-Generated News" sites, it says. ...
- AI Bites Dog
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Friday, June 9, 2023
On the internet, nobody knows you're an AI-generated news site. And the ...
- Twitter Head Of Trust And Safety Ella Irwin Resigns
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Friday, June 2, 2023
Irwin's resignation marks another loss from Twitter's content-moderation team. Irwin was nam ...
- YouTube Reverses Misinformation Policy, Cites Political Balance
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 2, 2023
YouTube says the ability to openly debate political ideas - even controversi ...
- Will Advertisers Be Impacted By YouTube's Reversal Of Political Ad Policies?
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Saturday, June 3, 2023
Advertisers may wonder how YouTube's reversal of its decision to take do ...
- Twitter Expands 'Community Notes' To Images
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Twitter has expanded "Community Notes" -- the platform's crowdsourced moderation feature ...
- Google To Work With Europe On 'AI Pact'
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai committed to an "AI Pact" in a meeti ...
- AI Shock And Awe: Communications Pros See Dangers And Opportunities
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, May 16, 2023
The biggest concern is the spread of factual errors and misinformation, ...
- A Former President On A CNN Town Hall: What Was Gained Here -- Or Lost?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 15, 2023
Did CNN expect different answers from what Trump has repeatedly said? We' ...
- NewsGuard Launches Podcast Info Rating Service
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, May 9, 2023
The new service follows last year's "Joe Rogan" podcast misinformation controversy a ...
- Google Breaks Promise To Defund Climate-Change Lies, Research
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Google announced two years ago it would stop running ads alongside vide ...
- RNC Uses 100%-AI Dystopian Ad To Attack Biden
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, April 25, 2023
The 100%-AI ad from the official Republican campaign body appears to sign ...
- Ahead Of CEO Testimony, TikTok Updates Community Guidelines
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, March 22, 2023
With moves to ban TikTok in the U.S., the social media platfor ...
- When Misinformation Passes The Turing Test
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, March 22, 2023
"Advertisers have another brand safety issue to worry about," NewsGuard's Gordon Crovi ...
- Harder Times Shift Advertiser Focus From Harmful Content To Performance
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, March 14, 2023
"My feeling is it's a blip and we'll see that stabilize ...
- If It Misleads, It Leads
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Monday, March 13, 2023
The only thing more partisan than American politics is points of vi ...
- Dominion Lawsuit Is Not About The 'Law' Or 'Journalism,' Lachlan Murdoch Says
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 10, 2023
"It is really about politics, right? And that is unfortunately more reflecti ...
- Google Expands 'Prebunking' In Europe
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 13, 2023
Google plans to launch a campaign in Germany that aims to he ...
- Misinformation Spreads From Weak Platform Policies, Not Users, USC-Led Study Suggests
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 19, 2023
The study indicates that the structure of social platforms such as Facebo ...
- Vaccine Critics Sue News Organizations Over Efforts To Combat Misinformation
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other vaccine critics are suing The Associat ...
- FTC Releases New Advertising Compliance Guidance For Health Care Products
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 21, 2022
The FTC guidelines are intended to prevent unfair and deceptive practices, simil ...
- Ad-tech Companies Launch Global Campaign To Encourage Action On Climate Change
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Founding AdTechCares partners including InMobi, Pinterest, Media.Monks, and Smartly.io have launched ...