- Vaccine Critics Seek To Revive Free Speech Claims Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 23, 2021
Children's Health Defense, an organization founded by vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is aiming to revive a lawsuit claiming its free speech rights were violated when its posts we ...
- GroupM Exits Facebook Global Media Review
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, July 23, 2021
The review was launched in March shortly after the appointment of a new CMO at the client - Alex Schultz, who replaced Antonio Lucio. ...
- FTC Gets Extra Time To Beef Up Antitrust Case Against Facebook
Raw, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 23, 2021
The FTC was granted an additional three weeks to reformulate its antitrust complaint against Facebook. ...
- Facebook Wants To Become A 'Metaverse'
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 23, 2021
What's a "metaverse" company? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative -- the company would "strive to build a maximalist, interconnected" set of experiences from sci-f ...
- GroupM Unfriends Facebook Review
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Friday, July 23, 2021
Onerous risk and liability of terms cited. ...
- Bill Seeks To Strip Websites Of Protections For False COVID-19 Information Posted By Users
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 22, 2021
President Joe Biden recently accused Facebook of "killing people" by allowing false information about the COVID-19 vaccines to spread on the platform. ...
- How Facebook's Newsletter Platform Threatens Publishers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, July 23, 2021
The main goal of Bulletin is build a stable of writers that support Facebook's goal to keep people engaged on its platforms ...
- Startup Surge: Yelp Data Shows Massive Amounts Of New Business Openings
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 22, 2021
New U.S. business applications from June 2020-May 2021 experienced the greatest increase on record since 2004 as more people looked for increased flexibility in work or turning hobbies into full-ti ...
- New Book On Zuck & Co. To Cluck Over
Social Media Insider, Phyllis Fine - Wednesday, July 21, 2021
From "NYT" review: "An Ugly Truth" "provides the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse:." ...
- Taboola Powers Personalized News Feeds Now In More Than 80 Countries
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 19, 2021
Taboola, which powers recommendations, on Monday released numbers reflecting the significant adoption of its News product, which can be integrated into the mobile carrier's offering or be pre-loaded on phon ...
- TikTok Taps Vimeo To Go After SMB Market
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 19, 2021
TikTok and Vimeo want to explore ways to support performance marketing. ...
- FTC Chair Shouldn't Participate In Antitrust Case, Facebook Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Facebook aims to disqualify FTC chair Lina Khan from participating in any decisions regarding the agency's antitrust battle with the company. ...
- Florida Wants Appellate Court To Reinstate Law Banning 'Deplatforming'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Florida officials will ask a federal appellate court to lift a block on a state law that imposes sweeping restrictions on social media companies' ability to moderate content. ...
- Google Fined Millions in France, Allegedly Violated Orders To Negotiate With Publishers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 13, 2021
France's Competition Authority fined Google $593 million for allegedly violating orders to negotiate paid deals with news publishers. ...
- Texas Governor Pushes Unconstitutional Crackdown On Social Media
Social Media Insider, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 13, 2021
A proposed Texas social media bill would prohibit large platforms from blocking, banning or demonetizing users based on their political opinions. ...
- Facebook Ad Targeting Bounces Back In Wake Of Apple iOS 14.5
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 13, 2021
The Facebook Audience Size Report for July 2021 offers a view into how Facebook audience segments have changed over time, including a specific focus on trends since the release ...
- News Corp Shutters Knewz
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 9, 2021
News Corp launched Knewz service in January 2020 to fend off search engines and news aggregators such as Google, and Facebook. Now the company is shutting it down. ...
- Trump Sues Social Platforms For 'Censoring' Him
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Former President Donald Trump has sued Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for allegedly violating the First Amendment by suspending his account after the January 6 riot in Washington, D.C. ...
- House Republicans Propose Fast-Tracking Antitrust Suits Against Tech Platforms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee want to require judges to handle antitrust lawsuits against tech companies quickly, and allow the cases to be appealed directly to the Supreme Co ...
- Facebook Ad Products Chief: Context Will Be More Of Our King
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, July 8, 2021
Facebook may or may not be a content company, but it is definitely a context one, and the next generation of paid and organic ad products will be leveraging t ...
- Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten To Leave Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Big tech companies threatened to leave Hong Kong Tuesday after the Chinese government released new guidelines that focus on data security, cross-border data flow and other confidential information
management. ...
- Nextdoor Steps In Line To Go Public Under Ticker 'KIND'
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Neighborhood network Nextdoor plans to become a publicly traded company through Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II, which will serve as a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). ...
- People Spend Nearly 2 1/2 Hours Daily On Social Media
Social Media Insider, Larissa Faw - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
We Are Social and Hootsuite's report outlines the expanded use of social media, with 45% of users aged 16 to 64 searching for brand information. ...
- Facebook Backs Local Australia Newspaper Fund
Around the Net In Publishing, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 2, 2021
Facebook will provide money for an "innovation fund" for 170 regional Australian newspapers. This is one of several deals announced by Facebook since Australia forced it and Google to negotiate conte ...
- FTC Urged To Continue Antitrust Battle With Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 2, 2021
"It is essential that the Commission take action to deter anticompetitive conduct by digital monopolists by ensuring that they are held liable for antitrust violations to the full extent ...
- Mobile App Spend Tops $34B Worldwide In Q2 2021: App Annie
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 2, 2021
Consumers spent $34 billion worldwide in Q2 2021 on mobile apps -- up $7 billion year-over-year, breaking an all-time record, according to an App Annie report released this week. ...
- Judge Throws Out Vaccine Critics' 'Censorship' Lawsuit Against Facebook
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 1, 2021
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr's Children's Health Defense against Facebook over its policies regarding vaccine-related posts. ...
- Facebook Sues Over $36 Million Ad-Fraud Scheme, Targeted Agency Employees
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Facebook on Tuesday sued four Vietnamese residents who allegedly ran an ad-fraud scheme that took control of accounts of users who worked at ad and marketing agencies. ...
- Facebook's Bulletin Newsletter Service Debuts
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Writers can self-publish their work and charge for subscriptions and content. ...
- Google's Kantak Vows To Improve Automation, Develop Lift As Performance Metric
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Darshan Kantak, VP product management for Google Ads and Search, has a passion for search ad automation and is determined to make lift measurement as a performance metric work f ...
