Facebook is taking another step to penalize the lowest quality websites by lowering their visibility on the social network.Facebook is using artificial intelligence to identify when a link leads to a website with the worst ad experiences, like sponsored content spam and other negative cues, and then will restrict the posts and ads leading to those pages.The change to Facebook's rankings will target the worst publishers that often peddle in false news and promote shocking and sexualized content. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Kremlin-backed Russian Internet Research Agency operated dozens of Twitter accounts masquerading as local American news sources that collectively garnered more than half-a-million followers. More than 100 news outlets also published stories containing those handles in the run-up to the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook confirmed that it is testing a way for publishers to add a "breaking news" label to their posts. The Next Web director of social media Matt Navarra shared a screenshot of the feature via tweet: NEW: Facebook working on a 'Breaking News' tag for news publishers Pages?... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Chicago-based news affiliate recently topped a list of news publishers that included Fox News, NPR and the BBC. The post How Fox 32 became the most engaging news publisher on Facebook appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook came under fire after it admitted that it published 3,000 Russian-linked advertisements designed to influence the US Presidential Election. Those ads pointed to Pages that trafficked in fake news, which has been one of the social network's b... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Tuesday unveiled its News Feed Publisher Guidelines, a set of best practices. Head of News Feed Adam Mosseri announced the release in a Newsroom post, writing, "We launched the Facebook Journalism Project to collaborate with the news industry in support of an informed community. A... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Antsy publishers are starting to fear for their position within Facebook's powerful News Feed, now that tests have begun pushing their posts to an alternate timeline.On Monday, Facebook acknowledged it was testing a version of the social network overseas where publishers' articles appear in a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers on Facebook who have complained for years about declining organic reach may look back in the near future and think of these times as the good old days. The social network confirmed that it is testing a division of its News Feed into two separate feeds--one containing posts from... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New system could destroy smaller publishers if implemented, after journalists report drop in organic reach – but users will still see their friends’ postsFacebook is testing a major change that would shift non-promoted posts out of its news feed, a move that could be catastrophic for publishers... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A man who says he was defamed on Facebook by a fellow college student filed a lawsuit Friday against the woman in Los Angeles, alleging she falsely accused him of raping her. The plaintiff in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit is identified only as John Doe and the defendant as Jane Roe. He... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nine days after Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as "crazy" the idea that fake news on his company's social network played a key role in the U.S.’s November election, then-President Obama pulled aside the youthful tech billionaire and delivered what he hoped would be a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook took another step toward protecting the integrity of news articles shared via links on the social network. In July, Facebook announced that non-publisher pages could no longer overwrite link metadata--such as headlines, descriptions and images--in Graph API or page composer, and it... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It was only a few minutes after my imaginary Trump supporter “Todd White” began exploring Facebook that he learned filmmaker Michael Moore was staging a coup d’etat against president-elect Donald Trump. Todd also learned that Trump won the popular vote. And that there were people paid to protest... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More details emerged Thursday on the subscription-based news product announced by Facebook head of news partnerships Campbell Brown earlier this month. Brown said at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York earlier this month that the social network would begin testing a... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has begun implementing a new feature that can prevent fake news from making it on the social network. It has started killing non-publisher Pages' ability to edit the link previews that appear on the website when they post a story, including... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The next battleground in Facebook's war against fake news is the link previews on shared posts from publishers. Product manager for news Alex Hardiman announced in a blog post that non-publisher pages can no longer overwrite link metadata--such as headlines, descriptions and images--in Graph API... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A paywall is coming to Facebook, much to the delight of publishers. Head of news partnerships Campbell Brown made the announcement at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York Tuesday, as reported by Leon Lazaroff of TheStreet. Her announcement comes just over one week after several... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's ongoing battle against fake news continues, and the social network has a new weapon in its arsenal. To cut down on the amount of spam and fake news appearing in News Feeds, users who post a lot each day will have their visibility reduced. The thinking behind this is that there are... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At a time when premium publishers have pulled out of Facebook Instant Articles, Apple is showing that it is open to creating custom units for publishers. The post For Axios, Apple News beats Google AMP and Facebook Instant Articles appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp., publisher of the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London, is holding "very advanced" discussions with Facebook about subscriptions to its content online, CEO Officer Robert Thomson said."I've been talking with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, exchanging thoughts, on how important it... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The software-development kit for Facebook's Instant Articles media-rich, quick-loading stories from publishers now supports Google AMP, and the social network said support for Apple News is on the way. Partner engineering director Piyush Mangalick said in a Facebook Media blog post that an... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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