What do the war in Ukraine, toilet cleaner, and the dying news industry have in common? In short: online ads.
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Cherise Seucharan
Reporter, CANADALAND
Jonathan Goldsbie
News Editor
Tristan Capacchione
Audio Editor & Technical Producer
Sarah Lawrynuik
Senior Producer
Kieran Oudshoorn
Managing Editor, Podcasts
Hosted by Jesse Brown
The digital advertising industry is worth billions, but many companies don’t actually know where their ad dollars end up. Programmatic ad exchanges and other third-party platforms have enabled companies to buy ads without the hassle of going to each seller. But in doing so, these ad exchanges have opened the door for fake news and disinformation sites to profit. As reporter Cherise Seucharan finds out, it has become easier and easier for these sites to proliferate, while real news websites lose out.
Featured in this episode:
Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, co-founders of Check My Ads; Augustine Fou, anti-ad fraud consultant; Danny Rogers, co-founder and executive director at The Global Disinformation Index
We’re bringing you a special sneak preview of Inside Kabul, an Award Winning podcast from Radio France.. Canadaland is proud to premiere the English-language adaptation of this urgent and intimate podcast
“I can look up online and track snow plows in real time, but I don't know which ambulance is in service. I don't know what the paramedic staffing level for Montreal is, but I can tell you where the snow plows are. There is something seriously skewed.” - ex-paramedic Hal Newman
25 years ago, one Canadian scientist wrote a book that detailed the history and science of gay animals: Biological Exuberance. And then he disappeared…
Investigative reporter Molly Thomas was hell-bent on not letting the
plight of women in Afghanistan fall from the headlines. But the battle
to tell that story wasn’t where she first thought it was.
This story started out like every other Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women case. But something happened that would change the trajectory of the case, the people, and even political leaders in Manitoba.
