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Oct 2023
42m 53s

Brand Unsafe with Claire Atkin

THE LINCOLN PROJECT
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Claire Atkin, Co-Founder of Check My Ads, an independent watchdog non-profit that's reshaping the digital ad-tech industry by cutting disinformation off from its lifeline…which is advertisements and money. They discuss the latest with the video platform Rumble and how a disturbing amount of toxic content/disinformation continues ... Show More
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