Facing Bias Claims, Facebook Will Revamp Its Platform for Housing, Jobs, Credit Ads March 20, 2019 By Katie Paul Facebook Inc has agreed to change its paid advertising platform as part of a wide-ranging settlement to prevent discriminatory and...
Hiscox USA Promotes Hart to Product Head for Media November 2, 2018 Specialty insurer Hiscox USA has promoted David Hart to senior vice president, product head for Media. Hart, who joined Hiscox...
Lawmakers Eye Holding Social Media Firms Liable for User Posts July 19, 2018 By Ben Brody Top Republican lawmakers on Tuesday attacked one of the legal protections most prized by social media companies such as Alphabet...
Hearst Settles Magazine Subscribers’ Michigan Privacy Claim for $50 Million July 13, 2018 By Jonathan Stempel Hearst Communications Inc. on Thursday reached a $50 million settlement of a lawsuit claiming it violated Michigan privacy law by...
Media Faces Challenge in Keeping Online Threats from Escalating July 5, 2018 By Tamara Lush After a Florida radio station’s general manager told hosts they didn’t have to put an obnoxious repeat caller on the...
InfoWars Host Jones Faces Defamation Suit by Sandy Hook Victims’ Families April 18, 2018 By Polly Mosendz The parents of two children killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 sued Alex Jones, the host of InfoWars,...
QBE North America Forms Alliance with MGA Professional Risk Facilities November 1, 2017 QBE North America, an operating division of QBE Insurance Group Ltd., announced a strategic program underwriting alliance with managing general...
How to Make Facebook Liable for Its Content: Viewpoint October 19, 2017 By Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg Opinion Now that U.S. politicians know that Facebook is unable to stop malicious actors from using it to influence public opinion,...
Beef Products Firm and ABC Agree to Settle ‘Pink Slime’ Case June 28, 2017 By Timothy Mclaughlin Beef Products Inc. has settled its defamation and libel lawsuit against American Broadcasting Co. and its reporter Jim Avila, the...
Markel UK Launches Media, Creative Industry Coverage June 19, 2017 Markel UK has launched a package policy for media and creative industries that provides a wide range of covers to...