- News Anchor's Lawsuit Will Have 'Far Reaching Consequences,' Facebook Warns
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 22, 2021
A recent court ruling that revived Philadelphia news anchor Karen Hepp's lawsuit against Facebook will have "far-reaching consequences," including a chilling effect on online speech, Facebook argues in papers fil ...
- Illicit Web, Search Engines, Browsers Become Security Risk
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 25, 2021
The visual web indexed by Google, Bing and other search engines is well known to all, but an unregulated web has led to illicit activities that many people do n ...
- Apple's New Privacy Rules Are Hurting Tech Companies
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 22, 2021
Apple’s new restrictions on user tracking are hurting technology and e-commerce companies. They are driving up advertising costs and causing a problem for Snap and
Facebook. ...
- Duplicate Profiles Make Facebook's User Measurement Unreliable
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Friday, October 22, 2021
Facebook employees said that in an internal presentation this spring, the platform admitted their system for detecting double accounts tends to undercount them, as reported in "The Wall Street Journ ...
- Zuckerberg Sued By Washington, D.C. Over Cambridge Analytica Debacle
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 21, 2021
Facebook has made more than its share of questionable privacy decisions in its 18-year history, but one of its biggest mistakes may have been to allow developers to obtain informati ...
- AppsFlyer SKAdNetwork Ranks Performance After Apple's ATT Launch
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 21, 2021
Marketing measurement and experience platform AppsFlyer released a Performance Index ranking the top media sources in mobile advertising. The company pioneered a SKAdNetwork ranking after Apple's ATT framework this y ...
- D.C. AG Tries To Hold Zuckerberg Personally Responsible In Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 22, 2021
D.C. AG adds CEO to suit against Facebook filed in 2018, alleging Zuckerberg participated in Facebook's decisions to allow Cambridge Analytica to improperly use profile data on 85 million Face ...
- Oversight Board Says Facebook Didn't Reveal Cross-Check System When Asking for Guidance on Trump
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 21, 2021
Board says Facebook withheld critical info about the "cross-check" system reportedly used to give high-profile platform users immunity from its content rules--and didn't mention the system when the company ask ...
- Under-Siege Facebook To Reveal Corporate Rebrand
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The rebrand is reportedly meant to tie the company and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a focus on the "metaverse," and shift focus away from the social media brands that ha ...
- Facebook Fined By U.K. Competition Regulator Over Giphy Acquisition
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Facebook is being fined nearly 70 million dollars for knowingly breaching an order set by the U.K. competition regulator. Facebook was caught "consciously refusing to report all the required informatio ...
- Brands Begin Using 'Incrementality Experiments' To Fill Facebook Measurement Gaps
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, October 19, 2021
A new method using "incrementality" experiments is showing promise, and could shift some power from Facebook back to brands and agencies using it. ...
- Watchdogs Urge Senate To Confirm Privacy Expert Bedoya To FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 18, 2021
"When it comes to holding Big Tech monopolies accountable, time is of the essence," dozens of digital rights groups say in a letter to Senate leaders. ...
- Facebook's Latest Reckoning: Will Anything Change?
Publishing Insider, Tony Silber - Friday, October 15, 2021
Consumers love to hate Facebook, but they don't stop using it. ...
- Father Of Slain Reporter Asks FTC To Investigate Facebook Over Videos
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The father of a journalist killed on the air is urging the FTC to investigate Facebook for allegedly allowing videos of her murder to remain on the platform. ...
- Detoxing From Social Media, However Briefly
Social Media Insider, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, October 13, 2021
When Facebook resumed operations after a six-hour outage, it was an opportunity to examine our fixation and, in some cases, addiction, to the social network. ...
- Facebook Outage Proves Brands Are Vulnerable
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Last week’s Facebook outage proves that marketers need other ways to distribute content—for example, email newsletters. Brands have to take control of their messaging and not rely on “rented land,&rdqu ...
- Facebook Battles Users Over 'Scam Ads'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 11, 2021
"This suit seeks to hold Facebook liable as a result of content provided not by Facebook, but by various advertisers," Facebook writes in a motion asking U.S. District Court Jud ...
- Texas Social Media Law Unconstitutional, EFF Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 11, 2021
Editorial decisions about what content is permissible on social media platforms are best left to the platforms themselves -- even if their standards appear less than clear, the EFF tel ...
- Texas Social Media Law An 'Acute Threat' To Free Speech, Advocates Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 8, 2021
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, ACLU and other groups are urging a court to block a new Texas law that prohibits social media platforms from suppressing spee ...
- FTC Urged To Police Teen Privacy On Instagram, YouTube, Other Tech Platforms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 8, 2021
"The need to protect young people from privacy threats online is more urgent than ever," Sen. Ed Markey and Reps. Kathy Castor and Lori Trahan said Friday in a lett ...
- Facebook Trumpets Plan To "Nudge" Teens To Stop Fixating On Instagram
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, October 11, 2021
Under growing pressure after a whistleblower's accusations and leaked documents spotlighted Instagram's harm to some teens, Facebook says it will add more parental controls and "nudge" teens to take brea ...
- Americans: Facebook Contributing To National Health Crisis, Should Be Regulated Like A Drug
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, October 11, 2021
Many consider it physically addictive and felt like they were going through withdrawal during last week's outage. ...
- Ad Execs: Facebook's Loss Is CTV's Gain
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, October 11, 2021
Ad executives explain why Facebook's "headwinds" are CTV's "tailwinds." ...
- Email Marketers Seize Opportunity In Facebook Failure
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 8, 2021
Facebook’s failure has opened the door for email marketers to capitalize on the outage. Several have already responded with emails that address the episode. ...
- Study Reveals Social Media Addiction, Impact On Critical Thinking
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Monday, October 11, 2021
A recent article in "The Atlantic" equated social media to "attention alcohol" and "The Wall Street Journal" drew a comparison between Facebook and the tobacco industry in its manipulative targeti ...
- Slew Of Apps In Addition To Instagram Being Analyzed Amidst Child Safety Concerns
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 8, 2021
The delay of Instagram's app for kids highlights a need for tighter laws. The U.K. leads the U.S. in this area, introducing a new code earlier this year, the A ...
- The Crumbling Of The Facebook Empire, Part II
Media Insider, Kaila Colbin - Friday, October 8, 2021
More evidence of trouble brewing in Menlo Park: Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen -- and she brought RECEIPTS. ...
- Trump Seeks To Force Facebook To Restore Account
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2021
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal court to order Facebook to restore his account, arguing that his ongoing ban from the service could hurt the Republican Party ...
- What Happens When Facebook Goes Down? Traffic To The Open Web Soars
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Data reveals traffic to other destinations on the open web jumped by 21% when Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went dark Monday. ...
- Facebook To Seek New Hearing In Battle With News Anchor Over Dating Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Facebook will ask the 3rd Circuit to reconsider its decision to allow Karen Hepp to sue the company for misappropriating her image by hosting dating ads with her photo. ...
