- Disney, Apple, Lionsgate Pull Ads From X After Elon Musk's Remarks
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 17, 2023
Major media, entertainment and other marketers have pulled advertising from X/Twitter ...
- Facebook Ads Spread Malware In Fake Google Bard Downloads
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 13, 2023
Social media has turned into an easy tool to spread misinformation a ...
- Meta Bans Political Advertisers, Campaigns From Using Generative AI Ad Tools
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, November 7, 2023
One month after rolling out various generative AI tools to advertisers, Me ...
- 'Wired' Is Launching Politics Vertical To Counter 2024 Election Disinformation
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 6, 2023
Two new staffers have been hired for the product: Leah Feiger a ...
- X Amplifies 'Detrans' Campaign In 'Timeline Takeover'
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, November 3, 2023
It appears that Elon Musk's new Twitter, now X, is comfortable prioritizi ...
- Study Finds Most X Users Don't Know Blue Verification Marks Are Paid For
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Thursday, November 2, 2023
The findings correlate with a NewsGuard analysis of the first week ...
- The High Cost Of Misinformation For Brands, Publishers, Platforms
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 20, 2023
Collectively, posts on X that advance misinformation received 1,349,979 engagements and we ...
- AI, Disinformation Might Save The News -- But Not How You Think
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, October 20, 2023
In wartime, millions of people are turning to social media to st ...
- What (Not Who) Can Reason Better - Ernie, Bard Or Bing?
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 18, 2023
A Stanford computer scientist, speaking at the Wall Street Journal conference, sa ...
- Telegram CEO Defends Allowing Sensitive War-Related Content On App
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, October 13, 2023
Pavel Durov, CEO of encrypted social messaging platform Telegram, announced that t ...
- TikTok Warned, Takes Action On Israel-Hamas War Misinformation
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, October 15, 2023
TikTok is the latest tech company to counter misinformation after the ...
- EU Asks YouTube, X To Remove Misinformation As Ad Industry Unites Within Israel
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 13, 2023
"It difficult to comprehend what is happening, the cruelty and atrocities ...
- Brands, Ad Platforms, Technology Companies Stand With Israel
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Global brands, tech companies and ad platforms have either suspended operations ...
- X Corp. Seeks Injunction Against California Content Moderation Law
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 9, 2023
X Corp.(formerly Twitter) seeks to block enforcement of a new California l ...
- Zuckerberg-Backed Nonprofit Launches Voter Campaign On AI Misinformation
Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 3, 2023
AIandYou says this is the first multicultural public awareness campaign on ...
- X Cuts Election Integrity Staff, After Promising Expansion
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 28, 2023
Elon Musk said the team is "gone" in a post on Wednesda ...
- TikTok Provides Creators With New Labels For AI-Generated Content
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, September 20, 2023
TikTok is launching creator-made labels and testing automated labels for AI-generated conten ...
- Republicans Urge Court To Ban White House From Contacting Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 8, 2023
A dozen Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are asking a cou ...
- Generative AI Bots Continue Spewing False Narratives, Audit Finds
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Months after benchmarking high rates of false narratives generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT ...
- 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
Search & Performance 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 ...