The Uneasy Truce between Facebook and News Media
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In the wake of dropping engagement and rousing calls for better oversight on fake news, Facebook has announced the launch of Facebook News, which will feature content from “trusted news partners.” And many of those news publishers will actually be...
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Will Hiding Likes Us Make Us Happier on Facebook?
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Last month Facebook announced new trials where they are hiding (from the public) the number of likes a post gets, much as they did earlier with Instagram. The move is getting kudos from many, including Josh Constine in TechCrunch who...
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Facebook to Test Hiding Number of Likes
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Facebook has announced they are rolling out a new trial where they won’t publicly show the number of likes on posts, much like they recently did with Instagram. Their reasoning sounds sensible enough. “The apparent objective is to bring back...
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Let’s Face It, The Giant Has Run Amok
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The human collateral is staggering. Facebook has provided the platform on which violence and hatred is perpetrated around the globe. This goes way beyond election meddling and massive data breaches, according to Matthew Ingram in Columbia Journalism Review. “In Myanmar,...
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What Facebook Doesn’t Want Us to Know about User Metrics
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The number is staggering – in just three months earlier this year, Facebook took down 2.2 billion fake accounts. “That number is only slightly less than the 2.38 billion monthly active users Facebook has around the world,” writes Kaya Yurieff...
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Facebook Users Will Soon Be Able to Clear their Data History
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It’s one of the creepier aspects of using Facebook. You visit a website and view a product, and next time you’re on Facebook you get an ad for that product. Soon, however, you may be able to keep it from...
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Facebook Sets Aside Billions for Expected FTC Fine
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It’s always good business practice to have an emergency contingency fund. You never know when a lawsuit or government fine might blindside you. For Facebook, their current rainy day fund is in the billions (with a b) according to Hannah...
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Younger Users to Facebook – “We’re Over It”
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Facebook? Nope. That’s the growing sentiment among younger users, who are deleting the app from their phones in drives according to a recent Pew Research study. Why? According to Tallie Gabriel in The Content Strategist, it comes down to one...
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Oops, We Saw Your Passwords
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Did you know that Facebook employees could, up until recently, read user passwords on millions of accounts? According to a Bloomberg News item in AdAge, a security review in January revealed that passwords were stored in a format that made...
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Holy Metrics, Facebook Engagement Plummets for Brands
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For brands on Facebook, the writing is on the wall. Engagement is down significantly in the past year. It’s not surprising … in fact it was widely predicted when Facebook announced an algorithm change this would be bad news for...
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