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Social Media Laws: What Are They and How Do They Impact Brands?

Contently - Strategy

The FCC primarily focuses on telecommunications, and the FTC’s oversight is mostly confined to ensuring truthful advertising and protecting consumer privacy. District Court for the District of Maryland upheld the social media law in early 2024 , marking a significant precedent in the regulation of digital advertising.

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Trust: Business Tops Media and Government in Ethics and Competence, Finds Survey

Sword and the Script

Businesses are increasingly viewed as more ethical and competent than government, media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). That’s according to the 2021 Trust Barometer by Edelman (opens in PDF). Business is ethical and competent. To that end, NGOs were categorized as ethical but less competent. Stay in your lane.

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Blowing Your Own Horn Falls Flat. When it Comes to Reputation, Third-Party Validations Bring True Harmony.

Reputation Us

According to Performance Marketing World, 84% of millennials don’t trust conventional advertising. So the question arises: Is it ethical to pay for positive reviews or endorsements, even if they come from unbiased sources? According to a 2021 report by PowerReviews, over 99.9% of customers read reviews when they shop online.

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Challenges and changes for PR in 2021

Stephen Waddington

In short, 2020 into 2021 has been tough and, while there is most definitely light at the end of the tunnel, patterns have emerged that have changed and will continue to change forever the industry and how we practice communications.

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This Week in PR Ethics (5/18/23): Taking on Climate Lies

Ethical Voices

The most popular media outlets for this type of native advertising were Forbes, BBC, and CNN. The study found this native advertising has an impact on editorial coverage in those prominent outlets. The researchers found a decrease in negative coverage of key companies after they purchased native advertising.

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S&T Live Recap: Local News Deserts Leave Residents Uninformed, Encourage Misinformation

PRSay

Despite the demand for local news, news deserts “are counties with no newspaper, no digital-only news site, no ethic media, and no public radio,” Franklin said. Local news has lost 60% of its advertising revenue in the past decade, and 80% over the last 20 years. Some 1,561 U.S. counties have just one news source.

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When AI Goes After Your Job

Mindful Marketing

I’d recently written a couple of pieces about AI and ethics based on some extended conversations I’d had with ChatGPT. In those discussions I probed the bot’s moral mind, asking it almost any ethical question I could conceive. But how mindful are they in their advertising?

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