Follow the Money: How the Online Advertising Ecosystem Funds COVID-19 Junk News and Disinformation
Follow the Money: How the Online Advertising Ecosystem Funds COVID-19 Junk News and Disinformation
The ecosystem of junk news & disinformation around COVID-19 is enabled by search engines and advertising platforms that contribute to their visibility and financial revenue. Sites that consistently publish junk news, including harmful stories relating to COVID-19, show professional SEO strategies tasked with disseminating their content through search engines. They have high levels of domain authority, meaning that their content will rank high in search results for popular keywords.
Authors
Emily Taylor, Stacie Hoffmann
Oxford Internet InstituteCOVID-19+2 more
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