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Facebook launches Instagram Reels, its TikTok clone
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The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser
@Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H
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Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?
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US Congress made Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google CEOs sweat during antitrust enforcement hearing
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US congressional antitrust hearing with the the CEOs of Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook
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Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth
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Facebook has an internal simulation of the site populated entirely by bots that they're using to test the effects of possible changes
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Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built
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I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads
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The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
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Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law
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Boycott Facebook
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Spies, lies, and stonewalling: What it’s like to report on Facebook
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Over 400 advertisers hit pause on Facebook, threatening $70 billion juggernaut
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Pressure mounts as Starbucks, Coca-Cola join Facebook ad boycott; Facebook updates policy
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Apple and Facebook—a contrast of corporate strategies
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Coca-Cola pauses advertising on all social media platforms globally
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Anti-Defamation League sends open letter to advertisers, urging them to boycott Facebook due to ads being placed adjacent to hateful content
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Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire receives far more Facebook engagement per article than any other publisher, largely driven by a network of deceptive and toxic pages that systematically promote it
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Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
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Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
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Facebook vowed to investigate horrific abuse by anti-vaxxers. Nine months later, no one was penalized.
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Shows of support for racial justice from social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t address the way the platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs
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'Facebook doesn't care': Activists say accounts removed despite Mark Zuckerberg's free-speech stance
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Facebook and Google refuse to pay revenue to Australian media
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Facebook groups are falling apart with drama, infighting, and deleted comments about Black Lives Matter posts
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Copyright blocks interview of protesters because Marvin Gaye's 'Let's get it on' was playing in the background
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Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest US President Donald Trump posts
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US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
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Zuckerberg dismisses fact-checking after bragging about fact-checking
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Real reasons why tech giants are hugging “remote work”
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Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR
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Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable?
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Tech companies are pretending to be on their best behavior: Big tech is watching its step and trying to appear ethical during coronavirus. Don’t be fooled
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A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs
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Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million
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Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group
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A state-of-the-art open source chatbot
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Facebook approved ads with coronavirus misinformation, in an experiment which raises questions about how the social media giant screens ads on its platform
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Facebook invests $5.7 billion in India's Jio Platforms, becoming the largest minority shareholder in the telecommunications company
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Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
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Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy
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Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
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Facebook is giving $1,000 to all of its 45,000 employees
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Inside the pro-Trump Facebook group where first responders call coronavirus a hoax
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I wonder what the social media meta data is like right now
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what...
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what kind of research they are doing? I know it's all usually a tight secret.
One idea that came to mind is that this would be excellent data to weaponize. Now we (as in social media corps.) can generate a pretty good model of what a global conflict looks like on the level of individual behavior and how that can be used for an advantage. The other edge of the sword would be this will help future public health initiatives but somehow I don't see this info being made publically available...
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Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
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Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
5 votes