Coverage of Security Lab Work Studying Misleading and Other Problematic Online Ads

Recent coverage of Security Lab PhD candidate Eric Zeng‘s work studying problematic online ads (with Yoshi Kohno and Franzi Roesner, published at ConPro ’20 — “Bad News: Clickbait and Deceptive Ads on News and Misinformation Websites” — and under ongoing investigation):

• “Q&A: UW researchers clicked ads on 200 news sites to track misinformation” from UW News
• “Misleading ads, masquerading as news you can trust” segment on KUOW’s The Record
• “Deceptive Ads” segment on the Big Picture Science podcast