DeepIntent decides to take on the Russian ad army

If you’re a Russian disinformation agent planning to disrupt next year’s federal election with fake political ads, at least one demand-side platform (DSP) is suiting up to stop you.

DeepIntent is launching this week a private beta of a new feature called Verified Ads that checks whether submitted political ads originate from a genuine, US-based advertiser.

The New York City-based company says that, to its knowledge, this is the first verification layer by a DSP to weed out ads by foreign or other mysterious actors, although other kinds of ad quality filtering is increasingly common among ad tech providers. Founded last year, DeepIntent says ads handled by its platform appear on the sites of such publishers as The New York Times, Fox News and CNN.

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Barry Levine

Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.