Facebook, Twitter outpaced by smaller platforms in fight against harmful content – agency

(Reuters) – Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet’s YouTube made smaller strides than their social media rivals including TikTok and Reddit at battling harmful content such as hate speech and misinformation during the second half of 2020, a study released on Monday showed. Advertising agency IPG Mediabrands released its “Media Responsibility Index,” examining how the top social

IPG Mediabrands’ Latest Media Responsibility Index Proves Top Platforms Have Responded Favorably to Network’s Media Responsibility Push

Media Responsibility Principles Officially Adopted by the 4As and Media Responsibility Index Endorsed by the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), Continuing the Initiative’s Success New York, NY – February 8, 2021 – IPG Mediabrands today released its latest Media Responsibility Index, a quantitative report that strives to raise industry standards around brand safety and

Should social media platforms need a license to operate?

A license to operate would convey our commitment to holding powerful engines in our society responsible for our collective safety. The events of this past year have raised important questions about media in the 21st century. For many of us in the media business, it’s been a much-needed wake-up call, reminding us that our profession

IPG Mediabrands Releases First-of-Its-Kind Media Responsibility Audit of Social Media Platforms

YouTube’s Headstart In Brand Safety Efforts Help Them Top The Audit Rankings NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IPG Mediabrands today released its Media Responsibility Audit, the first-of-its-kind, as part of a larger effort aimed at enhancing brand safety and media responsibility in advertising. The social media platform audit was based on the Media Responsibility Principles Mediabrands recently released

Marketers Extend Their Social-Media Scrutiny Beyond Facebook

IPG Mediabrands begins a quarterly report on social platforms’ practices By Nat Ives The July advertiser boycott against Facebook Inc. over the way it handles unwelcome content generated some results, at least in the eyes of organizers, and a flood of headlines. But parts of the ad industry also are taking a wider look at

Mediabrands Introduces Media Responsibility Principles

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mediabrands today released its 10 Media Responsibility Principles (MRP) as part of a larger effort to balance brand safety and brand responsibility in advertising. While “Brand Safety” protects the brand, “Brand Responsibility” protects the communities that a brand serves, weighing the societal impact of the content, the publishers and services, and the platforms

We Need to Address the Elephant in the Room: Facebook

It goes without saying: these are difficult times. Recent events – including the pandemic and numerous injustices that have been committed against Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) – have weighed heavy on us all. We as a society are at an inflection point, and it’s time for us as marketers to get off the

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