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PR Ethics: What Happens When There is a Coup?  – Alex Dance

Ethical Voices

For Ethics Month, I wanted to look at new topics and geographies. He discusses several important ethics issues, including: What should you do when clients are even tangentially affiliated with a coup? Ethical challenges with clickbait. That’s obviously not ethical. The state of misinformation in Cambodia.

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Why Facebook & Google Can’t Afford to Legitimize Fake News Sources

Cision

Brands like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are doing nothing to prevent it, resulting in a very confusing and convoluted media world. Given the rising popularity of user-generated content, some fake news creators might fancy themselves journalists of a sort, without the actual ethics or experience that a real journalist would have.

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Is It Plagiarism or Jumping on a Trend? The Ethics of Social Media Content

Contently - Strategy

Social copying happens across all social platforms: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and the like. A 2018 report by Jeff Allen, Facebook’s senior data scientist, noted that: “About 40 percent of the traffic to Facebook pages…went to pages that stole or repurposed most of their content.”

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Maxim Behar on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in "One more thing with Flora" on BNT TV

Maxim Behar

I am still on the executive board of the global PR organization ICCO and together with my colleagues we’re trying to establish principles on how to govern the ethical use of AI in terms of copyright. All that has a clear purpose and reason is ethical, as I’ve been saying for years. Good morning. Maxim Behar: Good morning.

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Leading US CEOs Media Impact July – September 2023 

Onclusive

Controversy over alleged censorship around Covid-19 Facebook posts also weighed heavily, with Republicans seeking to hold the tech leader in contempt. Consumers are calling for transparency more and more. Zuckerberg’s continues to be mentioned alongside X owner (formally Twitter), with the launch of Threads as a key driver.

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PR: Less Elitist Than Ever

Maxim Behar

If you work with grocery products, mass consumer goods such as consumer electronics, or other types of goods that various groups of people use, you have to use their language to communicate effectively. There are already online stores with no specific websites that sell products solely on social media — the so-called Facebook stores.

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The New Era of Global: What Marketers Need To Know

Deirdre Breakenridge

Today, companies are compelled by their consumers to do more for society’s common good. In the New Era of Global, the biggest changes come with a different set of expectations; what consumers expect from their brands and what brands expect from themselves. They reflect the values of their consumers and use their power to act.

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