In Brief: FTC gives ByteDance, Facebook, YouTube 45 days to explain customer data use
Enforcement action could follow.
Enforcement action could follow.
Offers consumers streamlined privacy management to manage preferences depending on level of relationship (active, neutral, none) they have with a given company.
Consumers are indeed unhappy: 85% think a some or great deal of online content is dangerous, offensive, or inappropriate, according to this survey from the Trustworthy Accountability Group and Brand Safety Institute. Nearly all said they’d reduce spending on a product whose ads regularly appeared near malware (92%), terrorist recruiting videos (90%), Nazi propaganda (86%), or pirated content (83%).
Misleading election-related ads are “running rampant” on Meta-owned Facebook, but Google-owned YouTube is also making money from misinformation. Research by Media Matters, independently confirmed by the New York Times, found 30 YouTube channels that between them had posted almost 300 videos containing misinformation which had earned some 47 million views. YouTube is monetizing them with ads and sharing revenue with the creators. YouTube says election-denial falsehoods don’t violate its guidelines.