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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results. Image Source: [link].

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“Post Truth.” Navigating Misinformation and Managing Reputations

Reputation Us

If we can’t trust journalists from reputable media outlets, scientific studies, doctors, the government, the education system, marketing, or previous generations, who can we trust? Not only is “post-truth” in the Oxford Dictionary, the organization actually selected it as the word of the year in late-2016. Wake up America!

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Luxury PR and Marketing: TikTok’s Potential for Luxury Brands

Prohibition

In recent years, TikTok has emerged as a powerful social media platform, capturing the attention and engagement of millions of users worldwide. The Growing Luxury Landscape on TikTok The Rise of TikTok and Its Appeal to Gen Z Since its inception in 2016, TikTok has experienced exponential growth, with an average of 78.7

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” He concludes that the trendy, less traveled social media channels aren’t as important to PR professionals as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs.

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How the U.K. government set up a misinformation unit to combat fake news

NewsWhip

where he and his analytics team were tracking online news articles and social media posts to gauge their impact on the newly elected minority government. At first, mainstream media outlets didn’t cover this piece of non-news, which centered around the government omitting mention of animals as sentient beings in its Brexit bill.

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Brand crisis research: vaccine mandates, Striketober, & misinformation

NewsWhip

We discussed our latest brand crisis research around misinformation, worker strikes, and vaccine mandates and the key features of public and media interest during the October episode of the NewsWhip Pulse. Nicholson explains that in 2016 “outright false stories were going viral” and now it has become harder to identify.

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How Public Relations Can Fight Fake News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

By attacking the advertising model that supports sites like World News Daily Report and NewsBuzzDaily, they might help slow the viral spread of false, defamatory, and even dangerous stories. Fake content has been around as long as the internet, but as a culture, we didn’t take it so seriously until after the 2016 election.

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