Frontline Club panel discuss the problem of ‘alternative facts’ and concede that social media is not the only organisation publishing falsehoodsPrivate Eye’s latest cover shows a picture of Donald Trump, hand on bible, at his inauguration with a speech bubble saying: “I swear to tell the post-truth, the alternative truth and nothing like the truth.”Excellent stuff and, unsurprisingly, it raised a laugh last night at the first of my monthly series of conversations at the Frontline Club, The Editor’s View. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2017-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#alternative facts
Now that Facebook has been outed as keeping videos you've recorded but never published, the social media has promised to actually delete them. Last week, the sister of a New York Magazine writer found old videos that should have been cleaned off the... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#facebook promises
A few months ago Facebook implemented a big change in its algorithm that impacted what kind of content it would surface to users. In a move that sent shivers down the spines of media professionals, Facebook said it would de-prioritize publisher content in favor of posts between connections. For... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#media professionals
#big change
Buzzfeed has published an internal Facebook memo entitled "The Ugly" from 2016 that shows just how much emphasis the social network places on growth above safety, privacy and everything else. Written by Facebook VP Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, one of Mark... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#growth tactics
#ugly truth
Mark Zuckerberg's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad 2018 keeps getting worse. As people have begun downloading their Facebook data, they've found something unsettling: videos they recorded, but never published on the site. Recently, a Select/All... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#ve found
#mark zuckerberg
#facebook data
IBM-owned The Weather Company says it's going all-in on Taboola Feed, which mimics the look and feel of Facebook's News Feed, the publication said Thursday, making it perhaps the largest publisher to adopt the format.Like Facebook's News Feed, Taboola Feed is an infinite scroll that surfaces... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#thousand impressions
#infinite scroll
#largest publisher
#weather company
It doesn't seem so long ago that a lot of publications would compete for readers by publishing hagiographical stories about the world-changing visionaires at social media companies, including Facebook.Particularly in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we may still think that Facebook... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#bloomberg businessweek
#long ago
#including facebook
Playboy announced its intention to deactivate its Facebook accounts and leave the social network amid escalating concerns about the platform's mismanagement of user data.The publisher said the decision follows the difficulty it has felt for years to express its "values" on Facebook, due to the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#recent news
#facebook pages
#facebook accounts
Apple CEO Tim Cook had some harsh words for Facebook and defended his company’s manufacturing practices during an interview with Recode and MSNBC on Wednesday. The full interview won’t air until April 6*, but Recode published some excerpts on its website. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#harsh words
Quitting means beating the addiction, making a political statement and redefining social life. Are you ready?When I wrote an about-to-be-published book last year about problems with social media, I thought it would be cute to call it Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#facebook told
#elon musk
The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday that it opened an investigation of Facebook and the Senate Judiciary Committee called on the company’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to testify as scrutiny mounts over the social media giant’s handling of user data. The unfolding crisis at... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#user data
#mark zuckerberg
#privacy practices
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that the site's News Feed algorithm would further emphasize posts from friends and family, publishers that hadn't diversified across many platforms faced a reckoning. Publishers like Little Things, despite testing its content on other... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday that it has opened an investigation into Facebook Inc.'s privacy practices. The social media giant’s stock quickly dropped more than 5% before recovering somewhat. Around 10:20 a.m. Pacific Time, Facebook shares were down 1.8% at $156.41 — down 19%... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#pacific time
#privacy practices
#facebook shares
It’s even worse than I feared. I left Facebook in 2013, less for my own sake than for what my presence on the service was doing to others. I knew that anyone who “liked” my page could have their data harvested in ways they wouldn’t necessarily approve. Over the past five years, people have not... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Apple News is expanding its DoubleClick for Publishers test to publishers just as they look harder for ways to monetize their content outside of Facebook. The post Apple expands test to sell ads in Apple News appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#apple news
#sell ads
Publishers are trying to monetize Facebook groups through advertising, focus groups and subscriptions. The post How publishers are monetizing their Facebook groups appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#focus groups
#facebook groups
GMG received legal letter from Facebook day before Observer report on mass data harvestingIssuing a warning to the Guardian Media Group ahead of its publication of an exposé of mass Facebook data harvesting was not the wisest move, one of the social networking giant’s senior executives has said.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#news partnerships
#campbell brown
#news conference
#senior executives
In this week's Rundown: Publishers look to new platforms for audiences, and Facebook's Cambridge Analytica headache could have repercussions far beyond Facebook. The post The Rundown: Publishers move beyond Facebook appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#publishers move
#facebook appeared
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that his company “made mistakes” in protecting user data obtained by Cambridge Analytica, but said steps already taken and new policies unveiled Wednesday would prevent developers from misappropriating such information in the future. Part... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#cambridge analytica
With consumer revenue and loyalty newly important, news publishers are personalizing their products more. The post News publishers are giving personalization a fresh look appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#consumer revenue
#news publishers
It’s hard to fathom why Facebook’s number two has gone along with a crisis strategy that puts herself (and Mark Zuckerberg) squarely behind the curtain. Over the weekend it was business as usual on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s profile page. On Saturday, she shared two photos from a visit to... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#standard fare
#blockbuster book
#elementary school
#sheryl sandberg