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According to a recent report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), social media website Twitter has removed a privacy option that the EFF believes proves why stronger privacy laws are essential.

And now we come to the moral of the story… All these establishment media outlets now suffering due to these hyper-sensitive advertisers, said nothing when Sleeping Giants and Media Matters attacked conservative publishers like Breitbart.

A new report shows that e-commerce sites doubled their ad spending between mid-February and the second week of March as social distancing became the norm due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

If the ads project an Oz-like image of Bloomberg that can’t be sustained—because soon enough, somebody will pull back the curtain—then the ads are misconceived, perhaps even counterproductive.

Can you explain why one of these is so empowering it has to be displayed everywhere and the other is so demeaning it had to be banned?

According to a recent report, Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch is failing to generate as much ad revenue as expected.

Social media giant Facebook is reportedly setting up a new engineering team in Singapore to focus on the extremely profitable mainland China advertising market.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg (D) spent over $155 million on political advertising in 2019 — millions more than billionaire rival Tom Steyer (D), according to data from Advertising Analytics.

A Facebook contractor has reportedly been fired for taking thousands of dollars in bribes to reactivate banned advertising accounts on the platform.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveiled her new bill to rein in government agency public relations and advertising spending on mascots, koozies, and fidget spinners on Breitbart News Daily.

Lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret featured a transgender model for the first time in the windows of its stores in New York City and London on Friday.

Tech giant Facebook will pay $40 million to settle a class-action lawsuit after admitting that it overstated video-viewing metrics over an 18-month period between 2015 and 2016. The overinflated video view counts led advertisers to overpay for ads.

One of America’s largest media and communications companies, Comcast, has reportedly joined the regulatory fight against Google’s stranglehold on the online advertising market.

A report by the CBC reveals that Facebook advertisers are able to write their own headlines when sharing news stories, given many users the impression that the advertiser’s headline is part of the original piece. Facebook says it is adding “additional safeguards” to the advertising tool.

CNBC published an article recently taking issue with Google’s argument that the tech giant competes with “lots of companies” in the advertising industry.

As antitrust investigations into Google heat up, business owners are speaking out against one of the company’s ad practices, known as “conquesting.” Edible Arrangements CEO Tariq Farid says the practice is “killing” business for his franchisees, and Basecamp CEO Jason Fried called the tactic “a shakedown” and “ransom.”

Google and other Silicon Valley tech giants are attempting to water down the first major data-privacy law in the United States, the California Consumer Privacy Act, according to a recent report. Google and the rest of Silicon Valley wants special exemptions from the law to keep collecting your data for advertising purposes.

A group of British ex-servicemen – former Labour voters with a military intelligence background – has released what it calls The Traitors Chart: a map illustrating some of the hundreds of reasons why they no longer vote Labour.

A television advertisement featuring a mother caring for her baby while men are being adventurous was taken off air after new rules came into force banning portrayals of “harmful gender stereotypes” in commercials.

Social media company Twitter has admitted that an internal bug in its ad targeting system means that the site shared user data with advertising partners without consent.

In the course of critiquing the NRCC ad campaign, the Times appeared to confirm Republicans’ underlying claims about Lauren Underwood.

The New York Times published an article recently outlining how Google ads can be used to influence and “socially engineer” users.

LONDON (AP) — Hapless husbands and housework-burdened moms were being banished from British advertising, as a crackdown on “harmful” gender stereotypes came into force Friday.

Connecticut pro-life activists celebrated the demise of a Democrat bill that claimed pregnancy care centers engage in deceptive advertising.

Google has reportedly developed a new way to “disrupt” the $129 billion digital advertising industry while claiming to give users greater control over their online privacy through changes to how tracking cookies work.

The White House will put measures in place as soon as this summer to require further transparency from drug advertisers.

Gillette’s new Gillette Venus advertisement campaign features morbidly obese women and transgender models. The company claims “ALL types of beautiful skin deserve to be shown,” but it has experienced resistance and widespread mockery on social media. An advertisement featuring one

Facebook’s advertisement targeting system can’t help but discriminate, according to a report, which claimed it discriminates by race and gender even when told not to.

Facebook is changing its political advertising rules to ban parties and campaigns from advertising in countries where they do not have a representative.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) have proposed a bill which would ban targeted advertising by Big Tech to young children. The goal is an “eraser button” to remove data about children from social media platforms and other Big Tech sites.