Advertisers are increasingly skeptical of using Facebook messages to connect to the public, even after Facebook took credit last week for squashing a couple of large spammer networks using fake accounts to generate automated bot “detection systems” and “friend” requests.
Popular conservative YouTuber Mark Dice has allegedly been suspended from Facebook after attacking a Baby Dove soap commercial that featured a transgender “mother.”
Facebook says it has targeted 30,000 fake accounts linked to France ahead of the country’s presidential election, as part of a worldwide effort against misinformation.
Former chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission Ann Ravel recently spoke at an event at UC Berkeley titled “Future of Democracy” where she discussed the possible need for regulating political speech and ads on social media. Ravel, who has previously
Facebook will stop “fake news” using a similar algorithm as the platform’s one against “click-bait,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
With the rollback of the Obama Administration’s Net Neutrality almost complete, the Internet Association issued a manifesto to the now Republican-dominated FCC stating they intend to fight to bring back politicized regulations they worked so hard to implement.
Facebook and The Poynter Institute have partnered on a new “three-course” certificate program for journalists.
The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel, according to a new comprehensive study.
Press Gazette, a British media trade magazine dedicated to journalism, has begun a campaign to highlight the advertising duopoly that Facebook and Google have established.
The CEO of WPP, the largest advertising company in the world, told CNBC that companies are looking for other platforms to place their advertising online beyond the “duopoly” of Facebook and Google. “What our clients want, and indeed what the
In an effort to combat “fake news,” Google has launched a new feature on their search engine titled “Fact Check” which adds a label to certain links indicating whether they have been confirmed by partisan fact-checkers Snopes and Politifact.
Facebook has introduced an anti-revenge porn feature to the platform which will be able to detect previously-flagged malicious images and stop users from posting them.
A growing number of people are learning that if you are going to claim you can’t work or need disability insurance payouts to help with your physical limitations, you should avoid posting photos to Facebook showing you on vacation riding jet skis, wrestling with a giant fish, or engaged in other strenuous activities.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a new bill that punishes social networking sites if they fail to swiftly remove illegal content such as hate speech or defamatory fake news.
Following a report by The Times that big brand advertisements were appearing alongside extremist content online, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson spoke out against algorithms and online censorship. Speaking at the Asia society in Hong Kong, News Corp CEO Robert
Ten additional plaintiffs have joined a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Pulse nightclub shooting victims, claiming that Twitter, Google, and Facebook allowed their platforms to be used to radicalize the nightclub shooter.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s LeanIn.org has launched an “equal pay” campaign that claims “women are still paid 20 percent less than men, on average, in the United States.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook and Mozilla are among the companies and organizations launching a $14 million fund to promote news literacy and increase trust in journalism.
In a meeting with Amber Rudd, the British Home Secretary, tech companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft promised to crack down on terrorist content being accessible on the internet after the Westminster attacker, Khalid Massood, reportedly found tips as to how to orchestrate such an attack online.
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Pakistan has reportedly accused an Islamic extremist imam of “hate speech” for accusing activists of committing blasphemy and has ordered the radical to apologize in an apparent effort to portray the Muslim-majority country as tolerant towards minorities.
The CEO of advertising giant WPP, Martin Sorrel, declared advertisers boycotting YouTube for hosting extremist content “doesn’t make sense,” but that Google and Facebook need to “step up” their fight against the inappropriate content on their platform. Speaking to CNBC,
Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey has left Facebook and Oculus six months after his support for an anti-Hillary Clinton organization during the 2016 presidential election was revealed.
Facebook has introduced a new crowdfunding feature, similar to sites like GoFundMe, allowing users to raise money for particular causes.
A new report suggests that Snapchat will be a more popular ad platform than Twitter, Yahoo, and AOL by 2020.
Facebook are encouraging users to engage with their respective elected officials as part of the platform’s new “Town Hall” feature.
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has launched a crackdown against anti-Islamic “blasphemy” on social media, and Facebook and Twitter are doing little to stop it.
Just two hours of social media use a day can double the risk of young adults feeling “socially isolated,” according to a recent study.
BERLIN (AP) — A Syrian refugee in Germany won’t pursue further legal action against Facebook after a court rejected his call for an injunction forcing the company to seek and delete posts falsely linking him to crimes committed by migrants.
Social media platforms spewed more than 382,000 anti-Semitic posts over the course of 2016 – an average of more than 43.6 posts per hour, or one post every 83 seconds, according to research by the World Jewish Congress (WJC). Sixty-three percent of all the anti-Semitic content found a megaphone on Twitter.
A new piece from CNBC argues that Facebook could “learn a thing or two” about “fighting fake news” from heavily censored Chinese social media companies.
Browsing Facebook while driving is the “most likely mobile phone activity to result in an accident,” while three percent of accidents were caused by people streaming movies behind the wheel, according to a recent UK report.
In a message to young people Monday, Pope Francis warned today’s youth to beware of the falsehoods behind much of social media and “reality shows,” urging them to live their own lives and to create their own histories.
A patent filed by Facebook detailing a proposed meme analysis engine has been uncovered.
CHICAGO (AP) — A 15-year-old Chicago girl was apparently sexually assaulted by five or six men or boys on Facebook Live, and none of the roughly 40 people who watched the live video reported the attack to police, authorities said Tuesday.
Seven decades ago, the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank is unlikely to have imagined that her story would be kept alive for new generations via a computer-generated bot.
Iranian MPs have criticized the arrests of journalists and social media organizers ahead of the presidential election in May, with one directly accusing the elite Revolutionary Guards in a letter published Saturday.
A study released Thursday by LendEdu, an online marketplace for student loan refinancing, shows that millennials are most likely to check Snapchat before turning to Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify Pakistanis suspected of blasphemy so that it can prosecute them or pursue their extradition.
Facebook just put me on the naughty step for a piece I wrote defending the future Rector of Glasgow University. (aka Milo).
