Would You Pay for an Ad-Free Facebook?
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Imagine a social platform where you could connect with the people and the information that’s important to you, minus the spam, the sleaze, and the intrusive advertising. Sounds great, right?  Now imagine paying that service around $7.63 a month. That’s...
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Publishers Balk at FB’s New Ad Policies
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We’ve said it before – Mark Zuckerberg either doesn’t understand journalism or doesn’t care about its importance to our democratic society.  A bold statement? Sure. But just look at the dodgy way Facebook is ranking news outlet for trust to...
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Facebook Bans 500 Million New Accounts for Fraud
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More than 500 million new Facebook accounts were flagged as fraud and deleted in the first three months of 2018, according to Alfred Ng in C|Net, who explains that these accounts were blocked within minutes of being registered. “That's an...
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The Dodgy Way FB is Ranking News Outlets for Trust
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In an effort to reestablish trust and reduce their liability in the fake news mess, Facebook has started ranking news organizations on its platform, boosting them in the news feed according to how trusted they are. But the way they’re...
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Facebook Tracks Your Browsing Even If You Don’t Have an Account
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A lot of folks have been glued to the screen the last two days, as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress on the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. And it’s safe to say he’s not making us feel any better about...
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The Genie is out of the Social Media Bottle
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It wasn’t long ago that people were wondering if social media was okay. It seems like brands had just started coming to terms with misleading video metrics on FB when the whole YouTube scandal hit. Then Twitter fell headlong into...
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Do We All Work For Facebook?
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Deleting Facebook has become a mantra in the days since the news about the Cambridge Analytica data breach broke. But there’s more fuel to the fire than just your personal data being compromised. On closer look, the social media giant...
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Hot Off the Press – the 2018/19 Innovation Report
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Wondering what the rest of the publishing world is up to? Then lay your hands on a copy of the 2018/19 edition of Innovation in Magazine Media World Report, just launched this week at the Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS) in...
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What Facebook Really Knows About You
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This week was an eye-opener for a lot of folks, with big data, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica making headlines on just about every news outlet. It’s becoming painfully obvious that every move you make on Facebook is being bought and...
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What’s Hearst’s Chief Content Officer Doing on Snapchat?
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She’s unabashedly pro print; so why is Joanna Coles on Snap’s board of directors? Hearst does magazines. And they are unabashedly pro print when it comes to what’s important to their brands. That leaves some people wondering why the publisher’s...
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