Industry Research

The following is industry research on crowdsourced content reviews, brand safety for programmatic advertisers, Section 230 compliance, and polling data on American news consumers’ distrust in online media:

 
 

PNAS

Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality
Many people consume news via social media. It is therefore desirable to reduce social media users’ exposure to low-quality news content.

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TECH POLICY PRESS

EU Releases Guidance for Strengthening Code of Practice on Disinformation
Proposals include new enforcement and transparency mechanisms, more data availability and more user control over algorithmic recommendations.

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KNIGHT FOUNDATION

American Views 2020: Trust, Media and Democracy
Overview Update: On Nov. 9, 2020, Gallup updated the report “American Views 2020: Trust, Media and Democracy,” to correct a…

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DISNEY ADVERTISING

No News Is Bad News
News has always been a key part of culture, but over the past five years, the medium has literally transformed before our eyes: more sources, more content types and more ways to watch. This transformation has shaped the way viewers engage with advertising within news content. To determine if news environments provide a safe space for advertisers, and to better understand its impact on brand KPIs, Disney Advertising Sales partnered with Magna to conduct a research study.

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ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
47 U.S.C. § 230, a Provision of the Communication Decency Act Tucked inside the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 is one of the most valuable tools for protecting freedom of expression and innovation on the Internet: Section 230.

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AD AGE

Misinformation is thriving-and what brands should do about it
Brands need to be especially careful when it comes to running ads in places where misinformation thrives: That's because consumers are just as likely to blame a brand for so-called fake news it appears next to as the author who posted it, according to a new study.

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The Credder Podcast

Featuring deep-dive discussions with industry leaders working at the intersection of media and tech.

Previous guests include the top executives from TechCrunch, Craigslist, Rotten Tomatoes, Mozilla, Firefox, Verizon Media, HuffPost, Yahoo!, Meedan, AllSides, Ad Fontes Media, Digg, Colombia Journalism Review, Sovrn, Quartz, Factmata, Disqus, Brave, The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, IFCN, Minds, Poynter, Grindr, Hackernoon, Project Censored, The Media Freedom Foundation, Tech Policy Press, ScienceAlert, and more!

 
 
 
 

Scoring website and content credibility at scale for the advertising ecosystem