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Facebook caught Chinese hackers using fake personas to target Uyghurs abroad
Facebook on Wednesday announced new actions to disrupt a network of China-based hackers leveraging the platform to compromise targets in the Uyghur community. The group, known to security researchers as “Earth Empusa,” “Evil Eye” or “Poison Carp” targeted
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3 social media trends to watch in 2021
Here are the changes to keep your eye on when it comes to social media engagement and outreach in the coming months. 2020 is finally over, and for most that calls for a giant sigh of relief. Digital marketers hardly have had time to relax, though, as they
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Facebook executive acknowledges 'trust deficit' to advertisers
A top Facebook executive acknowledged the platform has a "trust deficit" in a call with advertisers obtained by the Financial Times as brands join a growing bo
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Facebook pulls out of the SXSW conference citing coronavirus concerns
Facebook has pulled out of the SXSW conference in Austin, TX, due to concerns about the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Facebook’s move follows Twitter, which announced today that it would be pulling out of the conference as well.
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Twitter rolling out new 'Continue thread' option for connecting multiple tweets together
Twitter is rolling out a new feature that makes it easier to thread multiple tweets together. With this change, you can now link tweets together while you compose them. The company announced the new feature this afternoon. When you’re composing a new twee
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Facebook is testing tabs to organize your News Feed
Facebook caused a lot of hullabaloo when it changed the News Feed from chronological order to an algorithmic ranking, and some people will never get over it. While you can still sort your feed by ‘Most Recent,’ the option is currently buried in the sideba
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How starting a conversation boosts social media engagement - PR Daily
As algorithms begin to favor user interaction and community sharing, how can brand managers adapt their campaigns to get better organic reach? Here are some tips. How can PR pros break the ice and start a conversation? Even the most extroverted among us f
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Exclusive: LinkedIn goes niche - Axios
Users may have noticed that their notifications or engagements on LinkedIn have increased.
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Some major Android apps are still sending data directly to Facebook - The Verge
Major Android mobile apps from companies including Yelp and Duolingo send data to Facebook immediately after a user logs in, according to a new report from the London-based UK charity and watchdog group Privacy International (PI). This data transfer happe
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Facebook removes over 550 Pages, 250 accounts in latest spam purge ahead of US midterms
The hundreds of bad accounts were removed for breaking the site's rules for "spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior."
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Twitter tested a list of suggested people to unfollow
Amid claims of liberal bias from the president of the United States
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Instagram users are reporting the same bizarre hack
A bizarre Instagram hack appears to be spreading: users' account names, bios, and profile avatars are changed, as is all their contact information.
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Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom on winning the Stories war - The Verge
Two years after Instagram cloned Snapchat Stories, we interviewed CEO Kevin Systrom about his future plans.
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Facebook and Instagram now show how many minutes you use them
It’s passive zombie-feed scrolling, not active communication with friends, that hurts our health, according to studies Facebook has been pointing to for the last seven months. Yet it’s treating all our social networking the same with todayR
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Instagram now lets you see when your friends are online
just added a new feature that lets your followers see when you are "active" and using the app
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Twitter bots are running amok with your public Venmo data
Here's another reason why you might want to double-check your privacy settings: transactions you may have thought were private could be on Twitter right now
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How Twitter Made The Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback
A bird emerges from the ashes.
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Twitter stock is at a three-year high. What is going on? - Recode
Unlike years past, people aren’t just buying Twitter because they think the company will be acquired.
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Instagram Just Added A Mute Button, To Save Your Friendships
So many broken friendships over an unfollowing have just been prevented.
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News outlets object to how Facebook will label political ads | VentureBeat
In the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook made sweeping changes on what information it gives to users about political ads. But the changes will have consequences for more than just political groups — and not all organizations are happ
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This was the most viewed Facebook ad bought by Russian trolls
The post had simple language, but managed to fool more than 1 million people.
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Facebook is testing burying posts from media outlets in a separate News Feed — unless they pay
With the new Explore tab, Facebook is currently testing a change that would force news publishers to pay for their posts to be shown in News Feed.
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You can now add a location to your Reddit post
Thanks to a new partnership with Foursquare—yes, the check-in app you may have used in the late 2000s—Reddit posts, published via the mobile app, can include a geotag that's particular to a specific venue or as broad as a country.
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Facebook’s new features like Messenger Day are distracting and obtrusive - Recode
Facebook is breaking the user experience to promote a feature it cares about more than its users.
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A social media network just for scientific researchers has raised $52 million
ResearchGate features the scientific work of over 12 million researchers.
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How to Stop Social Media From Taking Over Your Life
In this day and age, it’s hard to live a full life without logging onto Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram every now and then. The problem is that they can become a huge waste of time.
