- Facebook: Voter Registration Efforts More Effective Than More Content Control
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, July 2, 2020
Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives are focusing on the company's voter registration effort amid the high-profile #StopHateForProfit ad boycott, as they continue to argue that American voters, ...
- How Publishers Can Benefit From Facebook Boycott
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, July 3, 2020
Advertisers boycott of Facebook is an opportunity for publishers to tout the advantages the offer for brand safety. ...
- Microsoft Building One Platform To Run Ads On Bing, Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 2, 2020
Microsoft Advertising has revealed a Garage Project that developers are working on to help small- and medium-size businesses advertise on search and social media platforms. It gives SMBs one place ...
- Facebook Brand Trust Is Expensive To Rebuild
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 2, 2020
At issue is not only the brands' trust in Facebook, but consumers' trust that brands will do what is ethically and morally correct. ...
- Amazon, Google, Facebook To Face New EU Legislation On Content, Competition, Taxes
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan -
The goal is to quash anti-competitive behavior in companies such as Google, Amazon.com, and Facebook. It would make the companies pay more taxes and take more responsibility for illegal content ...
- Slowly, Then Suddenly: How Big Change Happens
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, July 3, 2020
The social unrest we've experienced over the past six weeks seems sudden. But it's not, not really. ...
- Facebook Struggles To Contain Ad Boycott
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
With more than 400 brands committing to a Facebook boycott, the social giant is struggling to explain its position on hateful and hostile content. ...
- Report: Zuckerberg Said Advertisers Will Be Back 'Soon Enough'
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, July 2, 2020
In a video town meeting with employees last Friday, Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg also said the boycott is more a "reputational and partner" issue than a financial one, and ...
- The Futility of Meta Hate
Media Insider, Ted McConnell - Thursday, July 2, 2020
Gasp, as big dogs push Facebook off the roster! That'll show 'em! Or will it? ...
- Badwill
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Thursday, July 2, 2020
The focus of the brand boycott of Facebook has been on how it impacts its bottom line, especially ad revenues. But it has something greater at stake: Its brand value. ...
- Facebook To Highlight Sourced News Stories
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
In order to prioritize originally reported articles in News Feed, Facebook will be looking at groups of articles on a particular story topic and identifying the ones most often cited ...
- Facebook To Seek Supreme Court Intervention In Privacy Battle Over 'Like' Button
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Facebook plans to ask the Supreme Court to rule that tracking logged-out web users via the "Like" button doesn't violate the federal wiretap law. ...
- Facebook Bans 220 'Boogaloo' Accounts; Talks With Ad Boycott Reps To Continue
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Removals are Facebook's latest effort to demonstrate greater responsibility in the face of the rapidly expanding #StopHateForProfit boycott. Facebook Inc. pointed out that it has removed other Boogaloo-linked accounts in ...
- The Lincoln Project Baits Trump With Propaganda
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Facebook has allowed a series of YouTube ads targeting Trump to run on its platform, while YouTube has given the baiting ads a home. ...
- Facebook's News Feed Change Won't Quell Critics
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Most legitimate publishers already follow practices to make their reporting methods more transparent. Facebook's changes aren't likely to affect them. ...
- Conservative Activists To Pursue 'Censorship' Battle Against Tech Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 29, 2020
Conservative activists Freedom Watch and Laura Loomer will ask an appellate court to reconsider claims that Google, Twitter, Facebook and Apple violated the First Amendment and antitrust laws by conspiring ...
- Microsoft Suspends Facebook, Instagram Ads
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Fearful of appearing alongside inappropriate content, Microsoft has decided to temporarily suspend all advertising on both platforms. ...
- MRC Asked To Audit Facebook Policies, Brand Safety Controls
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Promising more transparency, Facebook outlined additional measures designed to protect brands on its platform. ...
- Centro Basis Integrates With Microsoft Advertising For Paid-Search Campaign Management
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 29, 2020
With the integration, customers who also use Microsoft's self-serve ad platform can receive real-time performance data in Centro's Basis platform, similar to the LinkedIn agreement. ...
- Facebook To Alert Users To News Articles More Than 90 Days Old
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, June 26, 2020
The move is designed to ensure people have the context they need to make informed decisions. ...
- Unilever Suspends All U.S. Advertising On Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, June 26, 2020
Unilever has just decided to pull advertising for the remainder of year on all three social platforms. Last year, it spent $42 million on Facebook. ...
- Facebook Must Face Wiretap Claims, Court Confirms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 26, 2020
Handing a defeat to Facebook, a federal appellate court has refused to revisit its earlier ruling that the company may have violated federal and state privacy laws by tracking people ...
- Facebook Modifies Content Policies
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, June 26, 2020
Most notably, the social giant will soon begin labeling posts from influential figures that violate its standard content policies. ...
- Coca-Cola, Others, Pause Social Ads Hours After Facebook Policy Change
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Saturday, June 27, 2020
Facebook announced changes to its content and ads policies hours after Unilever suspended ads on its platforms and Twitter. ...
- Honda, Ford Withhold Social Ads -- Will Other Automakers Follow?
Drive Time, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, June 29, 2020
"The existence of content that includes hate speech, violence and racial injustice on social platforms needs to be eradicated," Ford said. ...
- In July, All Of Facebook Will Be 'Brand Unsafe'
MediaDailyNews, Kevin Lee - Monday, June 29, 2020
I recommend that all advertisers and marketers conduct a cost-benefit analysis for July and make a conscious decision whether Facebook and the other social media platforms need to take on ...
- Gnats On An Elephant's Back
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Sunday, June 28, 2020
Rishad Tobaccowala once famously described the ad industry as cockroaches. He meant it as a compliment, but today I'd like to compare it to gnats, in a not-so-flattering way. ...
- Verizon Latest To Pause Facebook Ads, After Boycott Flags Extremist Content Adjacencies
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, June 26, 2020
Verizon is among several big companies whose ads are shown positioned next to hate or conspiracy content on Facebook, in a post by the Anti-Defamation league. ...
- What Facebook Can Learn From Ryanair
Media Insider, Maarten Albarda - Friday, June 26, 2020
In 2014, after business slippage, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said it was "going to stop publicly pissing off people," which led to a turnaround. ...
- Republican Senators Claim 'Warrant-Proof' Encryption Jeopardizes National Security
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Facebook responds: "Rolling back this vital protection will make us all less safe, not more." ...
