Tag: Facebook
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Facebook refuses to release political advertising data
Television stations must disclose to the public which politicians bought advertising on which station, how much they spent, and where the ads run. It’s available for anyone that wants to go the station’s section on the FCC website for all to see. Not so for the internet. Facebook, not known…
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News organizations ask Congress for authority to collectively bargain with Google, Facebook
The New Media Alliance represent almost 2,000 news organizations, primarily newspapers. This week, the organization starting asking Congress for some help in taking on the big internet companies. Call it a pre-emptive strike for collective bargaining with Google and Facebook. It’s no secret that Goo-book dominates digital advertising. In the…
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Insights: Analyzing 105,000 Facebook pages for emoji’s
Facebook places weight on reactions – those love, sad, angry, lol emoji’s – when determining what to put in your news feed. It values them more than likes. “Over the past year we’ve found that if people leave a Reaction on a post, it is an even stronger signal that they’d…
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Man fined $4,000 for clicking the Like button of defamatory Facebook posts
Here’s a twist. A Swiss man has been fined roughly $4,000 bucks for clicking the Like button on Facebook. Yup, you read that right. Fortune reports that the man (not named in court) clicked the Like button on what a judge termed defamatory comments on Facebook. By clicking the Like…
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Instagram growth is exploding
ICYMI, Instagram growth has exploded. It’s now exceeded 700 million active users monthly. The growth rate itself is incredible, adding more than 100 million users already this year. The growth has come at the expense of SnapChat, which has seen growth slow down some 82% since Instagram launched Stories –…
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New study links social media use to less gray matter in your brain
Too much Facebook = less brain cells, according to a study in the medical journal Behavioral Brain Research. The researchers did MRI scans of active 85 Facebook users. “Higher daily frequency of checking Facebook on the smartphone was robustly linked with smaller gray matter volumes of the nucleus accumbens,” the…
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Social Media: “More addictive than cigarettes and alcohol”
Researchers from the Royal Society for Public Health in the U.K. interviewed 1,500 some teens and young adults (age 14-24) to quantify the impact of social media on their health. They looked at thing like depression, loneliness, body image, sleep, self-identity, and bullying. The conclusion? Instagram is the worst offender…
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Social media companies facing fines for failing to remove hate speech, illegal content quickly enough
Social Media is under attack again in Great Britain as government officials debate fines if Facebook and Twitter don’t remove illegal content fast enough. Britain’s home affairs committee unleashed a scathing report, going so far as to suggest the social media companies pay for policing. They compared it to a…
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Every generation is the Facebook generation… for now
Every generation is the Facebook generation, proclaims a new survey by Sprout Social. It’s hard to argue. The study looked at the social media habits of 1,000 Millennials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers.
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It’s over: Mobile has won
We passed the tipping point in 2014. Since then, the use of mobile has exploded. If you’re still focusing on your desktop website first, you’re way behind. 71% of web traffic in the United States is mobile, according to ComScore. Mobile usage is larger than desktop in almost every country.…
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Media outlets hits by massive “fake like” campaign; Facebook purges 200 million
USA Today lost nearly 6 million likes in April. They were fake Facebook accounts that had liked the paper. Parent company Gannett said there are still more than two million more fake accounts floating around. That adds up to roughly 38% of all likes, according to a CBS analysis of…
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Heavy social media use = depression in young adults
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s research shows the more young adults spend on line with social media, the more likely they are to suffer from depression. Maybe it’s that “everyone else seems to have all those friends and do really interesting things and all I do is sit here and…
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Self-serve Snap Ads coming to Snapchat
Snapchat is about to launch a self-service ad platform. Digiday reports the interface will allow you to do Snap ads. Snap ads are full-screen videos (vertical) that show up between stories. Previously, you had to buy these through a Snapchat ad partner that would manage the process. That left a…
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Facebook’s 10-year road map includes typing with your brain, listening with your skin, and no more smart phones
Mark Zuckerberg laid out his 10-year road map at the F8 Facebook developers conference and hinted at some of the projects in the works at the social media company. It’s either genius or madness.
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Facebook adds a rocket to its lineup
You may have noticed a little rocket icon pop up on your mobile version of Facebook. Tap it and it will take you to alternative news feed. No, not “alternative facts,” but an algorithmic design feed of content similar to what you interact with on your regular feed, but…
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Social Media sites under increasing pressure to police themselves – or risk huge fines and prosecution
It’s not just advertisers putting increasing pressure on social networks and platforms that share user-generated content. In Germany, the government is considered legislation that would fine Facebook, Twitter and the like fines of tens of millions of dollars for failing to remove hate speech quickly enough. In the UK,…
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Should Google & Facebook be regulated, pay license fees for news content?
The British government has officially opened an inquiry into “fake news.” Damian Collins MP, Chair of the Committee investigating, summed it up: “The growing phenomenon of fake news is a threat to democracy and undermines confidence in the media in general.” Now British publishers have responded. The newspaper group News Media…
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Google ad changes hurt organic search
When Google announced expanding text ads in April allowing publishers more characters to use in text ads, it claimed it could lead to up to a 20% increase in CTR (click-through-rates) for advertisers. So how did it do?
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At what point does Facebook stop adding users?
In its earnings report this week, Facebook said monthly users of its social media platform now top 1.86 billion people. That’s roughly 25% of the entire world’s population that users FB regularly. In total more than half the world’s population that have Facebook accounts (although to be fair, a lot…
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Facebook testing targeted ads in Messenger app
A test in Australia and Thailand this week may lead to more ads from the folks at Facebook. This time, they’re testing adding advertisements to its Messenger app. “This means that a business is able to place an ad in an area of Messenger below your recent conversations, similar to…
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Brand loyalty is not dead, even for Millennials and new parents
Brand loyalty dead? It makes for a catchy headline and fits the narrative new-age brand marketers are selling: 90% of the leading household goods brands are losing market share on consistently low-growth categories – Study by Catalina The story goes that in the post-media age (whatever that is), consumers –…
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Cyber Criminals now spreading ransomware through Facebook, LinkedIn
If you find a graphic or image on your computer and you don’t remember downloading it, stop before opening! Experts have seen a dramatic increase in what’s Locky Ransomware being shared by unsuspecting victims, now through social media platforms LinkedIn and Facebook. Ransomware is insidious. It locks up your computer…
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New Facebook feature: Adding live video tab to mobile app
I opened up my Facebook mobile app and found something new today: a little video icon at the bottom next to my newsfeed button.
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What’s on your ballot? Easy way to find out before going to the polls
OK, so you know who’s running for President and maybe the local school board (maybe). Do you know what statewide initiatives are on the ballot and what the language means? It might help to look at the info ahead of time so you’re not trying to decipher legalize in the…
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Instagram appears to be readying live streaming by users
Is it any surprise that Instagram would be playing around with the idea of live streaming in its app? Some users have seen a Live icon pop up according to Russian website, TJournal (Thank goodness my browser will translate Russian), which published pictures showing a “Go Insta” button on the…
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Google News adds Fact Checking to top stories
In the world of social media and online aggregation, the one thing that is most rare is truth. Every day I come across stories and posts that stretch the truth or obliterate it completely. I believe it’s a big part of why the trust in media in general has plummeted…
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I watched Team USA beat China… live on Facebook
I had the most surreal experience last night. I was watching Team USA (you know, the team made up of NBA All-Stars that will represent the US in the 2016 Olympics) take on China. But I was watching the game Live… on Facebook.
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Facebook sued for $1 Billion, lawsuit claims they support terrorism
The families of five American victims in terrorist attacks in Israel have filed suit against Facebook. The lawsuit, reported first by Bloomberg, claims the company should be held liable for providing a platform for Hamas. Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel, and the European…
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Publishers seeing a 42% drop in Facebook reach
Drug dealers like to give away a “taste” of their product for free. They want to get you to sample it and then get hooked. It’s only then that they start charging for it and, the more you crave it, the higher the price. Now I’m not really comparing Facebook to…
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Google is tracking you on 70% of all websites: How you can opt-out of tracking cookies
I thought it was creepy enough when I noticed Google had pulled information from my email (via Gmail) and displayed it when I searched on Google. Like when I bought airline tickets and got the confirmation through Gmail… and then noticed when I searched Google, it displayed the flight information…
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