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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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WATCH: Hate is a business, and here’s how you unplug it
Check My Ads’ Claire Atkin appeared on MSNBC’s 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle and broke down how disinformation sites use adtech to threaten democracy and make a buck. Transcript: Stephanie Ruhle: Misinformation is a big, big business and like a lot of digital companies it is fueled by advertising dollars. But many companies might not
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Did Rumble just offer Jordan Peterson front-page real estate?
Video streaming site Rumble, which platforms QAnon conspiracy theorists, men facing sexual misconduct allegations, and a white nationalist influencer, has a new opportunity in its sights: Jordan Peterson. In a tweet on Monday, Peterson complained he was facing censorship on YouTube, where he claimed “pathological shadow-figures” were hiding his name from search results. Another X user was
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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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Alex Jones is making things worse for advertisers on X
It’s been a little over a month since X owner Elon Musk restored the account of conspiracy grifter Alex Jones, who was supposedly permanently suspended in 2018. Now Jones’ following has more than doubled to over 2 million, making X less safe for everyone on it — especially advertisers. It looks like Jones himself isn’t
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Meet the ad exchanges making money from climate disinformation (hint: you already know them)
Ad exchanges can’t seem to keep themselves from sending money to climate deniers — even when it’s flagrantly against exchanges’ own policies. Check My Ads research, published in a new report from the Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition, shows how over 150 ad exchanges are enabling the monetization of climate mis- and disinformation on
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