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As ad fraud places time-poor SMEs in grave danger, this AI start-up could have the answer

The Oversight Board's ruling on Trump is a warning for other world leaders.

Sixty percent of all ad spending is digital. Within digital, almost 90% of the display ad spending is done through programmatic ad tech. It should be obvious that this is an unhealthy concentration of ad spending. What should marketers do differently?

Our democratic habits have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.

What if you were considering robbing a bank? What if you were thinking about selling cocaine? How about digital ad fraud? You wouldn't let ethics hold you back, right?

The three tech giants now collect more than half of all ad dollars spent in the U.S. The pandemic economy got them there.

Current antitrust law has trouble measuring the competitive harm in free services from huge aggregators, says Neeva cofounder Sridhar Ramaswamy.

Law professor Zephyr Teachout called the series a "devastating takedown" of the Federal Trade Commission and its economists under the former president.

The social network analysis company thwarts online misinformation efforts before they have offline consequences.

"Bezos has become a symbol of the unfettered capitalism that we are living under right now," said the Vermont senator.

In the digital era, the old rule book on ownership doesn’t work anymore. But beware of what’s replacing it.

Experts are split on whether the coming years will see less misinformation online. Those who foresee improvement hope for technological and societal solutions. Others say bad actors using technology can exploit human vulnerabilities.

"It shouldn't be up to Facebook and Google to cherry pick and groom publishers it deems acceptable for side deals."