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Facebook And The Perils Of Opposition PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Is it ethical for a PR agency to smear a competitor? But one detail that interested communicators was that it brought on PR agency Definers Public Affairs to run political-style oppo against competitors like Google and Apple. So, was Definers ethical? Definers also sought to paint Facebook’s critics in a negative light.

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Who Is Fighting Fake News? [article]

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The online communications revolution has unleashed a Pandora’s box of disturbing problems that threaten privacy, democracy — even the concept of objective truth. Alphabet’s Google News Initiative earmarked $300 million in the war against misinformation. But whose responsibility is it to fight fake news? The tech giants.

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4 Reputation Threats Organizations Should Monitor in 2020

PRSay

As if threats of massive data breaches, technology outages or consumer-privacy rebellions weren’t worrisome enough; now, a new cause for cyber-insomnia looms: “reputation exploitation.”. With that reality in mind, here are four emerging reputation risks to consider: Targeted online attacks.

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Google’s Cookie Ban May Put a Brighter Spotlight on Original Content

Contently - Strategy

In early March 2021, Google announced plans to phase out third-party cookies by 2022, sending the targeted advertising industry into a tailspin. Their remonstrations have led to proposed legislation and, in some cases, new laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a sweeping privacy policy update implemented in the UK in 2018.

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Smear Tactics: Great for BBQ, but PR? Not So Much

Waxing UnLyrical

A couple of days ago, The Daily Beast broke a story about Facebook spreading a smear campaign against Google. According to the article, Mark Zuckerberg and his team hired Burson-Marsteller , a well-known public relations firm, to plant negative stories accusing Google of being careless with Gmail users privacy.

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AI adoption in public relations limited, so far

Wadds Inc.

Three-in-five respondents have experimented with ChatGPT from OpenAI, followed by Bing Chat (35%) and Google Bard (33%). Public relations practitioners recognise the opportunity to advocate within organisations for the moral and ethical concerns related to AI. Security, privacy, and disinformation are cited as the primary concerns.

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Future of PR and social media for International Air Transport Association crisis communications conference

Stuart Bruce

I will be talking about mobile, data and wearable technology as the drivers and ethics, real time and content as the issues. We’ll look at ethics and governance. But why be afraid of big government when we freely provide our life story to social networks and give up our privacy to airlines in return for a bribe of a few more air miles.