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Dec 3, 2024 | 
salesforce.com | Natalie Mathes
Building meaningful relationships with customers isn’t just a goal – it’s a necessity. Customers expect brands to know them, understand their needs, and provide seamless, connected experiences across every interaction. Data and AI can help marketers reach these customers in new ways and be more efficient, but it’s far from reaching potential for many organizations.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Payton Armstrong |Ethan Collier |Jack Winstanley |Jack Wheatley |Natalie Mathes
Early in the morning on March 26, a large cargo ship collided with a support structure for the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, leading to the bridge's collapse. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated that the incident was likely an accident and that there was no evidence to suggest that the collision was a terrorist attack. [Baltimore Sun, 3/26/24]In video of the collision, the cargo ship appears to lose power twice, belching thick smoke as it drifts into the support pillar.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Alex Paterson |Natalie Mathes |Carly Evans
As Meta's Oversight Board considers the company’s content moderation policies and enforcement practices around election-related misinformation, Media Matters has submitted a public comment asking Meta to bolster and more robustly enforce its content moderation process during the 2024 election cycle.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Natalie Mathes
On February 5, the Oversight Board upheld Meta’s decision not to remove a video of President Joe Biden that was misleadingly edited to suggest that he inappropriately touched his granddaughter, agreeing that the video didn’t violate the company's existing rules against manipulated media.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Natalie Mathes
On January 30, NBC News reported that it had reviewed 12 YouTube accounts that have been using “a mix of artificial intelligence-generated and manipulated media to create fake content” about dozens of Black celebrities, including actor Denzel Washington and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, with some videos generating millions of views.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Winstanley |Reed McMaster |Camden Carter |Natalie Mathes |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski
According to a report from The New York Times, Biden’s reelection team is hoping for an endorsement from Swift. The singer endorsed Biden during the 2020 election. [The New York Times, 1/29/24; NBC News, 10/7/20]Former President Donald Trump reportedly responded by asserting that he is “more popular” than Swift. Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller claimed that the Biden team is “counting on Taylor Swift to save him” in the 2024 election.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | John Knefel |Camden Carter |Kayla R Gogarty |Natalie Mathes |Zachary Pleat
In response to a recent Supreme Court ruling allowing Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire Texas laid along the border with Mexico, right-wing pundits are claiming the Biden administration has sparked a second American Civil War. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, two members of the court’s conservative block, sided with the three liberal justices in ruling for the federal government. The issue stems from Texas Gov.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
mediamatters.org | Ethan Collier |Natalie Mathes |Payton Armstrong |Alicia Sadowski |Helena Hind |Isabella Corrao | +1 more
Fox host Laura Ingraham opened her show by declaring, “Tonight, America is seeing the ultimate election interference.” Ingraham complained that “four unelected state judges all appointed by Democrat governors have ruled that Donald Trump must be kept off next year's presidential ballot.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 12/19/23]Ingraham also called the decision “judicial activism.” She explained, “They take the Constitution and turn it into a piece of Silly Putty for political ends.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
mediamatters.org | Camden Carter |Natalie Mathes |Kayla R Gogarty
Since November 27, Meta has earned over $1.6 million from ads The Daily Wire has run to promote its first feature-length “comedy,” Lady Ballers, a movie pushing anti-trans rhetoric about women’s sports. Meta has a record of failing to adequately moderate anti-LGBTQ content and has profited from anti-trans Daily Wire ads in the past, earning over $5 million on such ads from June 2018 to March 2023.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
mediamatters.org | Natalie Mathes
On December 12, Meta announced that “early next year” it will extend its fact-checking system to allow its third-party partners “to review and rate false content on Threads,” its text-based platform that launched in July. The announcement, which comes after Media Matters previously highlighted the platform’s content moderation gaps, is a positive step for the company, but it's not clear if it will be enough to prevent the spread of misinformation on Threads.
