Facebook is approaching community reviewers to help outsourced organizations of fact checkers address false claims faster. After conducting a test run in the United States in the next few months, Facebook is hiring a “diverse group of community reviewers” as contractors through one of their program partners. The community reviewers will submit their initial review …
Facebook announced an initial commitment of $130 million to launch its new Oversight Board, which is designed as a way for users to appeal the social giant’s content decisions, but the entity is behind schedule with initial board members to be announced in 2020. The Oversight Board — which has been dubbed Facebook’s “Supreme Court” …
Two months ago, Facebook published a white paper that sought to address some of the key issues involved in making data portable between online services. Now, Facebook has launched a tool to free media stored on the platform. The new image transfer tool will let users copy all their photos and videos from Facebook to …
A March 2019 legal settlement between civil rights groups and Facebook has consequences that are coming to light. Advertisers, including auto dealers and anyone linking to credit or APR financing offers, will suffer major changes and restrictions to the way Facebook ad targeting is done. The settlement resulted from accusations of unlawful discrimination against minorities, …
Facebook was forced to add a correction to a post after Singapore said it contained false information, presenting fresh questions about how the company will abide by government requests to regulate content. “Facebook is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says this post has false information” Facebook states. At the Government’s end, …
Facebook has always been careful not to lose touch with the kids. Enter their latest attempt to stay cool with the younger generation. The screenshots in the header image are from a new app called Whale (not to be confused with Whale Chat!) which is now available to Canadian users via a company called NPE …
Stuck trying to decide where to market your startup? Well, you’re in the right place! When starting a business it is extremely tempting to create an account on every social media platform possible, you feel under pressure to create content immediately and start selling. Take a step back and WAIT. You need to take time …
The holidays, an amazing season in all aspects of life. For shoppers, the holidays are all about getting those special gifts for loved ones. Which in turn means marketers must have the right insights and employ the right tools in order to make this possible. The perfect gift may seem magical, but in hindsight there’s …