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Science & Technology | Social Media
Influencer Marketing: A Phony Industry Based On False Premises
No, influencers are not going to rule the world. At least not the kind of influencers we’ve seen so far. Some people will attain positions where they can help change things or sell products and services, but it won’t be thanks to some trashy industry base
Science & Technology | Social Media
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
Politics | Big Tech vs Conservatives
Facebook Suddenly Deletes Policy Permitting Death Threats Against People They Don't Like
For all of Facebook’s talk of wanting to provide a safe environment, the truth of the matter came to light yesterday as the guidance for how Facebook enforces its policy on death threats was posted.
Politics | Libtards
REPORT: Remember How Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Had No Social Media Footprint? Here's Why.
When Christine Blasey Ford came forward to accuse then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of decades-old sexual assault, little was known about her; in fact, she had no social media footprint at all — an extreme oddity for modern times.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Big brother? Instagram will now ask you to think twice before posting profanities
Instagram today released two new features with a view to curb bullying on the platform - but it remains to be seen how effective they are.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook will start taking a cut of fan subscriptions in 2020 | TechCrunch
Facebook will take a cut of up to 30% on fan subscriptions, beginning on January 1, 2020. The social network is revealing its plans as part of a broader slate of monetization-related announcements this week at VidCon. The news confirms a TechCrunch report
Business & Finance | Marketing
The Best Social Media Management Tools for Small Businesses | Digital Trends
Social media is a great way to spread the word about your business, connect with customers and network within your niche. There are some online tools that can help you schedule posts, keep track of engagement and much more. Here's the best social media ma
Business & Finance | Business
How startups can make influencer marketing work on a budget | TechCrunch
Influencer Marketing has ballooned into a $25 billion industry, yet many marketing managers are left confused by this, because for them, it’s really not delivering the results to justify the hype...
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook’s content oversight board plan is raising more questions than it answers – TechCrunch
Facebook has produced a report summarizing feedback it’s taken in on its idea of establishing a content oversight board to help arbitrate on moderation decisions. Aka the ‘supreme court of Facebook’ concept first discussed by founder Mar
Politics | From CNN
Twitter says it will label tweets from Trump and other leaders that break its rules - CNN
Twitter plans to place a disclaimer on future tweets from world leaders that break its rules but which Twitter decides are in the "public interest," the company said in a blog post Thursday.
Politics | Politics
The White House may host a social media summit next month
The White House will reportedly host a social media summit next month. According to The New York Times, White House spokesman Judd Deere said the meeting will "...
Science & Technology | Social Media
Exclusive: LinkedIn goes niche - Axios
Users may have noticed that their notifications or engagements on LinkedIn have increased.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Big Tech’s problem is its lack of competition - The Verge
Kara Swisher talks antitrust, regulation, and breaking up big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
Politics | Big Tech vs Conservatives
Big Tech's Big Problems And A Conversation With The Pinterest Whistleblower
Pinterest Whistleblower Eric Cochran joins the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the rampant censorship of conservatives and Christians in Silicon Valley.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
10 LinkedIn Background Photo Ideas To Make Your Profile Stand Out
What's the best LinkedIn background photo you can feature on your LinkedIn profile to make yourself truly stand out? Here are 10 ideas for your background photo that can reinforce your professional value and personal brand.
Food & Drink | Food & Drink
Under the influencer
They’re hard to miss—@isbeeracarb, with her candy-colored hair and ornate septum ring, rocks tattoos from head to toe. Then there’s @thegirlwithbeer, who sports impeccably manicured eyebrows and thick, chestnut-colored hair.
Politics | Big Tech vs Conservatives
Twitter Punishes Project Veritas For Exposing Pinterest's Censorship Of Pro-Life Group
Pinterest has come under fire for declaring the pro-life website Live Action as "pornography." A whistleblower leaked internal documents to Project Veritas.
Politics | Big Tech vs Conservatives
Don't Minimize Conservative Concerns About Big Tech Censorship
To assert with such confidence that 'most red Americans either don’t know or don’t care about social-media censorship' seems very unwise indeed.
Politics | Big Tech vs Conservatives
WATCH: Whistleblower: Pinterest Censors Conservative, Pro-Life Content; Pinterest Reacts | Daily Wire
A new report by Project Veritas presents a series of accusations of political and ideological bias against conservatives, Christians, and pro
Science & Technology | Social Media
Agencies voice concerns that Instagram is killing organic reach
Scores of Instagram users and agencies recently took to the social network to voice concerns over a sudden dip in engagement on their posts. Speculation around an algorithm change was dispelled by an Instagram spokesperson, but it’s left a question mark
Science & Technology | Social Media
Survey: Micro-influencers offer big rewards for brand managers - PR Daily
Do those online celebrities with smaller followings really have the engagement that some industry experts suggest? New research offers insights for your next influencer campaign. Just how successful can a “micro-influencer” be at engaging his or her audie
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
French Rock Star’s Instagram Defeats His Widow in Inheritance Battle
If Johnny Hallyday, the “French Elvis,” was a United States resident, then his fourth wife stood to inherit his whole fortune. Social media evidence led a French court to rule otherwise.
Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing
Five Tips For Developing A Successful Instagram Marketing Strategy
Nowadays, it's hard to come by a brand that doesn't want to be ahead of the game on Instagram.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook and Twitter disable new disinformation campaign with ties to Iran - The Washington Post
The disabled accounts include two on Twitter mimicked Republican congressional candidates in order to push pro-Iranian political messages
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook removed 2.2 billion fake accounts in three months - CNN
Facebook took down 2.2 billion fake accounts between January and March, a record high for the company.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users - VICE
Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Grumpy Cat’s owner is facing a major financial loss — there’s no insurance for pet influencers
‘Your dog is essentially treated like a table under the law.’
Science & Technology | Social Media
Trump White House Asks Public To Report Social Media Sites If 'Suspended, Banned' For Being Conservative | Daily Wire
President Trump's White House is asking people to report social media sites, including Twitter, Google, and Facebook, if they suspect the site's "political bias" has caused them to be banned.
Politics | Politics
Online Censorship is Growing and it Threatens Us All
We produced the following video a year ago warning about the online censorship we were already seeing and experiencing ourselves.
Politics | POLITICS
Undermining Our Principles Is a Facebook Feature, Not a Bug
Earlier this month Facebook announced that independent journalists and media personalities Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos would be permanently banished from its global community of 2.3 billion people.While leftists in
Advice & Self-Help | Tips & Tricks
The Difference Between How Younger and Older Gen Xers Use Social Media – Adweek
They also have differing streaming habits.
Politics | Big Tech vs Conservatives
How Silicon Valley Bias Disrupts Local Politics – American Greatness
Silly me. I believed Justice Louis D. Brandeis when he said more speech was the remedy for speech you don’t like. "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies,” Brandeis wrote nearly a century ago, “to avert the evil by the
Science & Technology | Social Media
Instagram is working on new rules for banning accounts
Less than a week after banning Alex Jones and other far-right extremists, Instagram has revealed that it is working on a new policy for account removals. These...
Politics | Action Items
Please Sign The Petition: Get Hamas Off Twitter | CIJA
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs is a non-partisan organization that serves as the advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada.
Science & Technology | Social Media
If Instagram Gets Rid Of Like Counts, What Will It Mean For Influencers?
Instagram is testing out hiding like counts on profiles. How could this affect influencers and creators, who rely on metrics like these for business?
Science & Technology | Social Media
Everything Facebook announced at F8 2019 | VentureBeat
A comprehensive compendium of everything Facebook announced at its F8 2019 developer conference in San Jose, from Messenger to virtual reality.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts | TechCrunch
TechCrunch - Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Science & Technology | Social Media
What If a Girl in the Holocaust Had Instagram? | Israellycool
Here in Israel, billboards have appeared on the Ayalon Highway advertising something called Eva Stories.The trailer has now just dropped on Instagram.
Science & Technology | Social Media
The Most Active 10% of Twitter Users Are Responsible for 80% of Tweets Overall – Adweek
It turns out that Twitter users are younger and are more likely to be Democrats than the general public, according to a new Pew Research Center report.
Science & Technology | Tech
Facebook beats Q1 2019 profit estimates, sets aside $3 billion for privacy penalty | VentureBeat
Facebook blew away Wall Street profit estimates in the first quarter, and set aside $3 billion to cover a settlement with U.S. regulators.
Science & Technology | Tech News
Jack Dorsey Is Reportedly Meeting With President Trump | WIRED
The Twitter CEO said in an internal email obtained by WIRED that it's "important to meet heads of state in order to listen, share our principles and our ideas."
Science & Technology | Social Media
Reddit’s Subreddits Are Getting Collections, Events Posts
The site tested the new feature with the "Game of Thrones" Subreddit first.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Pinterest shares rise 28% on first day of trading, worth $13 billion | VentureBeat
Shares of Pinterest closed 28.58% higher than the IPO price on the first day of trading, giving the image-sharing site a $12.83 billion valuation.
Gaming | Gaming
Facebook's AI extracts playable characters from real-world videos | VentureBeat
In a newly published paper, scientists at Facebook AI Research describe a system that can extract controllable characters from real-world videos.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook exposed millions more Instagram passwords than we realized
Facebook today revealed it'd discovered millions of improperly secured passwords on its server. So, you know... business as usual.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Thousands of leaked Facebook documents show Mark Zuckerberg as ‘master of leverage’ in plan to trade user data
Facebook’s leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.
Science & Technology | Social Media
The chat feature may soon return to Facebook’s mobile app
Facebook upset millions upon millions of users five years ago when it removed chat from its core mobile app and forced them to download Messenger to communicate privately with friends. Now it looks like it might be able to restore the option inside the Fa
Science & Technology | Social Media
Twitter drops the number of people you can follow in a day
The change is aimed at cracking down on spammers.
Science & Technology | Social Media
To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself
Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried to take the high road versus Facebook, with Spiegel claiming “Our values are hard to copy”. That inaction allowed Zu
Politics | Interesting Links
If you thought New Zealand’s gun ban was fast, check out their new social media laws – twitchy.com
It's amazing how quickly you can get things done when individual rights aren't a concern.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook asks for public input about its plans for a content oversight board
In November, Facebook announced its plans to create an external content oversight board that would serve as something of a “supreme court” for Facebook’s more controversial content policy decisions. With the release of a draft charter i
Science & Technology | Social Media
New Facebook tool answers the question “Why am I seeing this post?”
Facebook announced today that it is adding a feature called “Why am I seeing this post?” to News Feeds. Similar to “Why am I seeing this ad?,” which has appeared next to advertisements since 2014, the new tool has a dropdown menu that gives users
Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing
Taking A Stand On Authenticity In Influencer Marketing
In an age where digital avatars are the new social influencers and an egg is the most "liked" picture on Instagram, does authenticity even exist anymore?
Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing
10 Instagram Marketing Tools to Help Grow Your Brand on Instagram in 2019
Instagram marketing can help you scale your brand quickly, and these tools can help you do that.
Humor | Humor
Learn to drive traffic and sales through social media marketing for $29
This 10-course social media master class bundle dives into everything from Facebook to influencer marketing.
News | Israel/Jewish Community
Twitter Defends User Who Wants to ‘Stone The Jews’
So much for that “healthy conversation.” Twitter’s rules on abusive behavior and hate speech apparently exclude any form of anti-Semitism. Arsen Ostrovsky, executive director of the Israeli-Jewish Congress, reported a tweet directed at him which sho
Science & Technology | Social Media
3 Key Impacts of Facebook's Latest Changes on Brands
This is what Zuckerberg's latest announcement means for your business
News | The News
LET THEM FIGHT: Sesame Street’s desert island tweet takes an awfully dark turn – twitchy.com
Sesame Street has put us in an ugly situation here.
Science & Technology | Social Media
MySpace Probably Lost Everything Uploaded To Its Servers Before 2015
In what can only be good news for future political candidates — but is definitely bad news for technology company MySpace — it seems the predecessor to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram lost most of what users uploaded to its social media platform befo
Science & Technology | Social Media
Council Post: How To Apply Social Selling To A Social Media Marketing Campaign
Today, salespeople are increasingly connecting with prospects on social networks.
Business & Finance | Business & Finance
Council Post: How To Apply Social Selling To A Social Media Marketing Campaign
Today, salespeople are increasingly connecting with prospects on social networks.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Twitter reveals big changes to conversations and new camera features
The changes are meant to make good on the company's promise to promote "healthy conversation."
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger are down for some users
It's not just you: Facebook's apps are having an outage.
Business & Finance | Marketing
3 Reasons Why Marketers Are Moving Away From Never-Ending Feeds to Strategy-Based Stories – Adweek
The future of social media is ever-changing.
Science & Technology | Technology
Twitter is testing a method for users to hide replies to tweets
Twitter has been hiding replies from what it deems to be suspect or troll accounts for a little while now.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature | TechCrunch
Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the same way the Facebook-owned app did to Snapchat. Code buried in Instagram for Android shows the company has prototyped an option to create public “Collections” to which mul
Science & Technology | Social Media
How to Use Visuals Effectively for Social Media Marketing
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a meme or infographic must be worth a thousand likes, right?……
Science & Technology | Social Media
Twitter may let us 'clarify' (but not edit) our old tweets
Twitter 2025 could be a non-stop line of 'No, that's not what I meant.'
Business & Finance | Marketing
Three Skills a Marketer Should Have to Master Instagram
Do you use Instagram for business? Here are 3 skills you should have to play and master Instagram and the game of visual marketing.
Science & Technology | Tech
Facebook reportedly negotiating multibillion dollar fine with FTC
Facebook could face a multibillion-dollar fine from the Federal Trade Commission.
Business & Finance | Business
How To Build A Brand Through Social Media
Social media is an incredible tool to grow a business. Designers Anne Maxwell Foster and Suysel dePedro Cunningham of Tilton Fenwick used social media to get press features, clients, and brand partnerships. Here's how they did it and their top 10 tips for
Miscellaneous | Other Stuff
14 Influencers Talk About Their Most Popular Image on Instagram - Feature Shoot
© Christopher Anderson Christopher Anderson “To be honest, this IG thing confuses me. Some images I am convinced will be crowd pleasers don’t generate interest, and then some that I almost don’t post because I think they are not good en
Science & Technology | Technology
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gives himself a 'C' in 'tech responsibility'
In a live interview conducted on Twitter, ReCode's Kara Swisher pressed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about what grade Dorsey would give his company and himself at fulfilling "tech responsibility."
Science & Technology | TECH
LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service
LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users globally — says that video is the fastest-growing format on its platform alongside original written work, shared news and other content. Now it’s taking
Science & Technology | Social Media
Is Facebook About To 'Break' Instagram, And What Does That Mean For Influencers?
Until now, Instagram has kept its distance from Facebook and the brands have been kept separate. But that could all be about to change, driven by influencer marketing, and the challenge for Facebook is to make that work without breaking the Instagram infl
Science & Technology | Social Media
5 new features Twitter is testing in its iOS app
Twitter has been quietly testing improvements to night mode, encrypted direct messages, and new ways to use GIFs, according to new screenshots.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Researchers say Twitter's not doing enough to combat abuse
Does Twitter need to do more to police its APIs? Researchers say yes.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Account linking could make Instagram the heir to Facebook Login
Teens’ aversion to Facebook jeopardizes not only the company’s feed ad revenue, but its dominance as an identity provider. The Facebook Login platform keeps people tied to the social network in order to easily access other apps without a separ
Science & Technology | Technology
Snopes quits fact-checking partnership with Facebook
Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook.
Science & Technology | Tech
Apple yanks Facebook and Google apps from the App Store
Apple disables Facebook and Google’s internal applications
Science & Technology | Tech News
Google+ will bid users farewell on April 2nd
The enterprise version will continue to live on, though.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Instagram outage forces millions to look directly at the world for nearly half an hour
Photo-sharing app and social network Instagram was briefly taken offline on Monday afternoon, causing nothing of consequence to occur other than a brief respite from one source of the constant deluge of inconsequential information to which we all voluntar
Science & Technology | Social Media
Exclusive: Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable
Snap Inc is considering changes to its Snapchat app, known for disappearing phot...
Politics | Politics
Google Manipulates Search Results on ‘Controversial’ Topics, Report Says
Google tweaks search results on topics the company deems “controversial,” sometimes even changes the results manually, Google sources revealed to Breitbart.
Music | Music
Facebook teams up with Yad Vashem to commemorate Shoah victims online
New project lets online users be randomly matched to one of the 4,800,000 names recorded in Yad Vashem’s central database of Shoah victims.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook is integrating WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger | TechRadar
Facebook is bringing its three messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger closer.
Science & Technology | Technology
Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook - The Verge
Today, advocacy groups are calling for Facebook to be broken up as a result of its Cambridge Analytica scandal, subsequent privacy violations, and repeated consumer data breaches.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Twitter starts rolling out simplified web interface to some users
Twitter is starting to deploy a revamped web client that's simpler to look at and promises tweaks like an emoji button and a revised trending section.
Sports | Sports
NFL playoffs 2019: Social media reacts to controversial no-call in final minutes of Saints-Rams matchup
The Saints were not happy with the referees in the final minutes of their NFC Championship matchup with the Rams on Sunday.
Business & Finance | Marketing
The 9 Worst Things Your Business Can Do on Social Media (And What to Do Instead) - SMALL BIZ AHEAD
Even if you understand the ins and outs of using social media from your personal experience, running a social media account for your business is a whole different ballgame. One insensitive post can garner negative coverage and public backlash, and even ha
Science & Technology | Social Media
Instagram will now let you post to multiple accounts at the same time
Instagram is rolling out a new feature today, which will allow users who manage multiple accounts to post the same content to all feeds more directly. Previously, users were required to either manu…
Science & Technology | Social Media
A 23 Step Social Media Marketing Checklist for 2019 [Infographic]
Looking to make sure you stay on track with your social media marketing efforts in 2019? This checklist will help.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Proving the ROI of influencer marketing is challenging but it can be done
Marketers have singled out measuring ROI as one of the biggest challenges they have with influencer marketing, but there are ways it can be done.
Business & Finance | Marketing
7 Digital Marketing Trends You Must Use in 2019
You Can No Longer Ignore These Trends
Science & Technology | Social Media
10 Improvements Influencer Marketing Has To Make In 2019
If influencer marketing wants to move from a line item in the "experimental" budget to a line item in the media budget, the industry will need to continue to mature in 2019.
Science & Technology | Technology
What’s next for 2019? Influencer marketing trends | ZDNet
Will professional influencers become all the rage in 2019 – or will they disappear as the next new influential technology arrives?
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Study Finds Being On Your Phone Constantly Can Be Harmful | Psychology Today
A new study shows why you should take a break from your phone once in a while.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
The Complicated Relationship Between Social Media and Depression - Neuroscience News
A new study reveals a correlation between the passive use of social media and depression symptoms such as loneliness and fatigue.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Confronting Facebook's Growing Pains
It is not that Facebook wants to promote poisonous material, but its system is designed in a manner that is allowing it to happen.
Science & Technology | Tech
How To Start, Manage and Grow Your Social Network Without a Huge Time Commitment
Owning or managing all marketing for a small business is hard! Without a large staff (or, let’s be honest, any staff) you probably find yourself pulling long days and fulfilling a variety of roles…
Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices
Facebook Is Full of Emotional-Support Groups - The Atlantic
People are sharing their deepest secrets on Facebook. Does the social network understand what it’s gotten into?
Science & Technology | Technology
Facebook is ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment complaints - The Verge
Facebook is ending the controversial practice of mandatory arbitration for sexual harassment claims, following protests over such policies at Google, which ended them earlier this week.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Instagram might be working on school Stories
It would only contain content from a particular school’s student body.
Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing
8 Old School Marketing Tactics That Work for Social Media
Okay, so it’s hard to imagine Don Draper meeting with Bethlehem Steel execs in Sterling Cooper’s top floor Madison Avenue […]
News | News
Facebook says it 'mistakenly' removed rabbi's story about harassment by Farrakhan supporters
Facebook “mistakenly” removed a New York Rabbi’s story about being harassed by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s supporters on Thursday.
Science & Technology | Technology
Twitter is sorry about that whole 'Kill all Jews' thing
Many New Yorkers awoke to a bit of a surprise when “Kill all Jews” briefly made an appearance in their Twitter sidebar. On a social network with a hate speech problem, it’s not unusual to see this type of content. Twitter has been locked in a perpet
Science & Technology | Social Media
I Built a Social Media Following of 1 Million in 30 Days. Here's How You Can, Too.
By applying these social strategies you can build a huge following with high levels of engagement.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Forget celebrity influencers - reach micro-influencers who impact your brand
Celebrity endorsements may not have the traction we think - fake followers included.Takumi thinks it has found a better way - with micro-influencers.
Science & Technology | Tech
Why Personal Curation Led To 90 Million Readers On The Apple News App
Sure, Apple includes its News app on iOS devices and Macs, but how many people actually flip through it on a regular basis? Quite a few, it seems. As part of...
Science & Technology | Social Media
How to Become the Social Media Manager Every Company Dreams Of
As more brands realize the need to reach their audience online, the demand for social media managers to help grow their business through social is rapidly increasing. As social media marketing recrui…
Science & Technology | Social Media
A New App Will Plan Your Next Vacation Based on an Instagram Photo | Mental Floss
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
Science & Technology | Technology
Pinterest Just Made It Easier To Sell More Stuff...And Other Small Business Tech News This Week
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
Business & Finance | Marketing
Influencer Marketing: How To Make Human Connections Work For Your Brand
Emotions have always played a role in consumers’ purchase decisions, and today’s digital influencers are the ideal launchpad for brands looking to form authentic bonds with audiences.
Science & Technology | Tech
Twitter now shows if a tweet was deleted for policy violations
Twitter recently announced it’s rolling out a feature to provide context around deleted tweets – including who deleted them and why. It’s a small change, but it’s the latest in a series of moves Twitter is making in an effort to bolster transpare
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook will delete posts that spread voting misinformation this election
Facebook today announced it’s tackling the most basic form of fake news to circulate around the time of an election: Voter misinformation and anything that might keep users away from the voting booths this fall. Specifically, the company revealed it wou
Science & Technology | Social Media
YouTube Stars Accused of Profiting Off Fans' Depression - The Atlantic
Viewers are outraged that some of the site’s biggest celebrities have partnered with a controversial online counseling service.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Here’s how to find out if your Facebook was hacked in the breach | TechCrunch
Are you one of the 30 million users hit by Facebook’s access token breach announced two weeks ago? Here’s how to find out. Facebook breach saw 15M users’ names & contact info accessed, 14M’s bios too Visit this Facebook Help center link while
Business & Finance | Marketing
Little-Known Best Practices For Launching A Successful Influencer Marketing Campaign
Influencer-driven word-of-mouth marketing is entering a Golden Age -- the result of an explosive rise in social media usage. And marketers need to take advantage.
Science & Technology | Social Media
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."
Science & Technology | Social Media
Google+ to shut down after coverup of data-exposing bug
Google is about to have its Cambridge Analytica moment. A security bug allowed third-party developers to access Google+ user profile data since 2015 until Google discovered and patched it in March, but decided not to inform the world. When a user gave per
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook, are you kidding? | TechCrunch
Facebook is making a video camera. The company wants you to take it home, gaze into its single roving-yet-unblinking eye and speak private thoughts to your loved ones into its many-eared panel. The thing is called Portal and it wants to live on your kitch
Science & Technology | Social Media
Extreme selfies have resulted in 259 deaths, says US report
The desire for ever more extreme selfies has so far resulted in 259 deaths, says a new report by the US National Library of Medicine ...
Science & Technology | Social Media
Relike lets you turn a Facebook page into a newsletter | TechCrunch
French startup Ownpage has recently released a new product called Relike. Relike is one of the easiest ways to get started with email newsletters. You enter the web address of your Facebook page and that’s about it. The company automatically pulls your
Science & Technology | Social Media
How Facebook could screw up Instagram - Recode
Let’s hope it doesn’t.
Science & Technology | Tech
Facebook warns that third-party apps could have been affected by recent breach
It may not just be your Facebook account at risk. The social media giant has warned that third-party apps which allow users to log in via their Facebook accounts may also have been affected by the recent security breach, though the company has yet to conf
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook Hacked, 50 Million Users Affected - Motherboard
Facebook "discovered a security issue" that the company said allowed attackers to "take over people's accounts."
Science & Technology | Social Media
I Get Paid $6,000 a Day to Write Inspirational Quotes for Instagram. Here's How I Perfected This Dream Job | Money
And here's how you can get started, too.
Science & Technology | Social Media
WhatsApp co-founder: 'I sold my users' privacy' with Facebook acquisition - CNET
Brian Acton had also tweeted in March that users should "#deletefacebook," as the social network dealt with its Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Twitter says bug may have exposed some direct messages to third-party developers | TechCrunch
Twitter said that a “bug” sent user’s private direct messages to third-party developers “who were not authorized to receive them.” The social media giant began warning users Friday of the possible exposure with a message in the app. “The issue
Psychology | Personality
Moral Outrage Can Backfire When It Goes Viral - Pacific Standard
As negative comments accumulate, they start to come across as bullying—even if they're justified.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook Started Indexing News Pages to Determine Which Publishers Belong in Its Ad Archive – Adweek
The social network developed its requirements with news organizations, academics and industry groups.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Pinterest Is a Unicorn. It Just Doesn’t Act Like One. - The New York Times
The company rejects Silicon Valley’s aggressive, hype-driven way of doing business. But its slow and steady approach has frustrated some investors and employees.
Business & Finance | Marketing
How to Get Sponsored on Instagram (Even if You Currently Have 0 Followers)
Find out everything you need to do to get sponsored on Instagram, even if you currently have zero followers.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Social media hearing takeaways: Mea culpa from Facebook, Twitter as lawmakers call for regulation
Leaders of the nation's largest social media companies were grilled by lawmakers over their plan to keep foreign actors from their platforms.
Psychology | Parenting and Kids
Don’t Believe the Hype: Tech-Induced Anxiety is Real | Thrive Global
The New York Times published an op-ed by a psychiatrist who says tech-induced anxiety among teens is a myth, but the science shows otherwise.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
Take this online class and learn how to make Insta-money
The photo sharing app sees over one billion visits every month, with a high level of engagement from its users. Learn how to get a piece of that pie.
Science & Technology | Social Media
Twitter brings Bookmarks to the web with a new design, now in testing | TechCrunch
Twitter is testing a new experience for web users, the company announced in a tweet on Thursday. A small number of Twitter users will see the updated version of Twitter for web, which will include access to Twitter’s Bookmarks feature, and scrolling thr
Business & Finance | Marketing
23 Social Media And Digital Marketing Best Practices That Are Actually MYTHS - balance
23 Social Media And Digital Marketing Best Practices That Are Actually MYTHS
Miscellaneous | Interesting stories
Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media
Generation Z has grown up online – so why are a surprising number suddenly turning their backs on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat?
Politics | Politics
Facebook sorry for removing Anne Frank Center holocaust victims image - Business Insider
Facebook apologises to the Anne Frank Center for removing an article it posted which featured an image of naked child holocaust victims. Facebook said it was...
Science & Technology | Social Media
The Five Step Formula To Instagram Engagement
Instagram is today one of the fastest growing social networks in the world. Between 2014 and 2017, the number of daily active users has grown from 200 million to 500 million. The time spent on Instag…
Science & Technology | Social Media
Twitter tested a list of suggested people to unfollow
Amid claims of liberal bias from the president of the United States
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
Facebook users are complaining the company has removed the cross-posted tweets they had published to their profiles as Facebook updates. The posts’ removal took place following the recent API change that prevented Twitter users from continuing to a
Science & Technology | Social Media
You can now apply to get a verified badge on Instagram — here’s how
Instagram is at last quenching the thirst of its thirsty, thirsty unverified users. The company just introduced a trio of new features designed to make Instagram a generally safer and more authentic place to hang out (third-party 2FA — enable it!) and f
News | International News
Facebook has TRUST ratings for users – but it won't tell you your score
FACEBOOK is rating users based on how “trustworthy” it thinks they are. Users receive a score on a scale from zero to one that determines if they have a good or bad reputation – but it&…
Music | Music
Even Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger embarrasses his teenage son
Their father-son relationship involves regular social media banter.
