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Update Grocery store Lidl stops advertising on TV channel found spreading Russian propaganda
Lidl is no longer advertising on a Serbian TV channel found spreading Russian propaganda — though the grocery chain says it’s not a political decision. The European company’s ad halt comes as researchers and nonprofits, including Check My Ads and Balkan Free Media Initiative, have been sounding the alarm about advertisers unknowingly funding the spread of
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Disinformation is one of the world’s biggest risks ahead of elections, reports say. But it doesn’t have to be.
As we hurtle toward one of the most consequential election years of our lifetimes, major groups are warning of a huge risk on the horizon: mis- and disinformation. That’s according to both the World Economic Forum and the Eurasia Group, which published separate but eerily similar reports on the biggest risks the world faces as
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Guide How to block Rumble from your ad campaigns
Major advertisers have started axing Rumble from their media buys — and for good reason. Rumble, known as “the free speech alternative” to YouTube, is the exclusive home of Russell Brand’s daily live show. Last week, Brand was accused of assaulting and grooming women and girls as young as 16. Rumble has said they plan
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Investigation Is RealClearPolitics secretly running a disinfo ad network called Publir?
At the end of 2022, The_Donald quietly started running ads. The_Donald, a MAGA forum banned by Reddit for its role in organizing the January 6 riots, had not only found new life on its self-hosted website patriots(.)win, it was being financially propped up with ad revenue. The question is: Who would do that? Who would
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Google’s Epic Multi-Billion Dollar Ad Scam Makes Sense To Us
Since its launch, YouTube’s TrueView skippable in-stream ad product has been underpinned with a single, tantalizing promise: you “don’t pay a dime” if viewers skip your ad. But turns out there’s a catch: they’ve made it almost impossible to skip the ads. This is just one of the revelations that Dr. Krzysztof Franaszek of Adalytics
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Confirmed Damn girl, look at this confirmed list
Welcome back to BRANDED, the newsletter uncovering how adtech companies fund hate and disinformation. Here’s what’s new with us: One year ago, we told you that we are going to dismantle the disinformation economy. But we never told you what we meant by “we.” Sure, there’s we at Check My Ads. We watch the pipelines
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