- Facebook Is Main Source Of Vaccine Misinformation For Latinx Consumers
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 22, 2021
Of those who have seen misleading or harmful information, 49% say they saw it on Facebook. ...
- Microsoft Launches Multimedia Ads For Search, Facebook Import Tool
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- Microsoft Launches Video Ads, Video Extensions, Facebook Adds Topic Targeting
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 22, 2021
Microsoft made a move into video this week with the launch of Video Ads and Video Extensions. Facebook followed on Thursday, announcing the ability to target videos based on topi ...
- Facebook And Twitter Face New Pressure To Boot Anti-Vaxxers
Social Media Insider, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Senators Amy Klobuchar and Ben Ray Lujan suggested Facebook and Twitter should ban at least 12 of the most prominent individuals who allegedly spread falsehoods about vaccines -- including Robe ...
- GARM Aggregates Platform 'Transparency Reports,' Finds More Action Taken
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, April 20, 2021
GARM this morning released its first report tracking performance on brand safety across seven platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube. While the report does not ra ...
- Senator's Bill Would 'Bust Up' Amazon, Google, Others
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 19, 2021
The Bust Up Big Tech Act would ban tech companies that market cloud services, search engines, marketplaces, and exchanges from advertising or selling their own goods and services on the ...
- Making Science Enters U.S. Market With Acquisition Of 360 Conversion Analytics
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 19, 2021
European-based companies making U.S. acquisitions have an advantage when it comes to consumer privacy concerns. Making Science has spent years building privacy into its platform, giving it a head sta ...
- Nextdoor To Serve Up Anti-Racism Notification, Become Gatekeeper Of Language
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 19, 2021
Spend some time on social media and you'll likely find racial profiling or restrictions on language. Neighborhood social networking app Nextdoor is no exception. ...
- House Committee Approves Antitrust Report Recommending Curbs On Big Tech
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 15, 2021
The House Judiciary committee has approved a staff report alleging that Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google abused their "tremendous power." ...
- Facebook Wants Draft Versions Of FTC Settlement To Remain Confidential
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
"These draft settlement documents, replete with proposed revisions, reflect Facebook's confidential commercial information," the company writes in papers filed late last week with the 1st Circuit
Court of Appeals. ...
- Facebook Says BrandTotal Not Entitled To Gather Ad-Related Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 12, 2021
Facebook is telling a federal judge that its ability to protect users from scraping depends on its power to prevent companies like BrandTotal from collecting data from the site. ...
- FTC And States Press To Proceed With Antitrust Claims Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 9, 2021
Facebook's alleged monopolization of the social networking market enabled the company to decrease users' privacy protections and increase the number of ads shown to them, 48 attorneys general argue ...
- Facebook, LinkedIn Job Ad Algorithms Studied For Gender Bias
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 9, 2021
The USC research, conducted on Facebook and LinkedIn, found that one platform's algorithms discriminate by gender, whereas no evidence was found on the other. ...
- Irish Ad Agency Rebrands To Enter U.S. Market As Optimization, Performance SaaS Specialist
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 12, 2021
We Are Bionic has rebranded to Optily after a decade of providing media buying and workflow automation services to agencies such as GroupM and Havas. The company used its optimizati ...
- Facebook, Zuckerberg Get Slapped With Lawsuit From Muslim Advocates
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Muslim Advocates on Thursday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CFO Sheryl Sandberg and others at the company, demanding that the social network begin taking anti-Musl ...
- Facebook Paying People For Information That Feeds AI Algorithms To Prevent Bias
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Facebook on Thursday released a dataset for AI researchers that includes a diverse group of people who were paid to provide the company with information about age and gender. ...
- GDPR Is A Privacy Recipe For The World
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Locales around the world are taking their cue from the GDPR as the European law approaches its third anniversary. For example, the California Privacy Rights Act, which was passed la ...
- Pew: YouTube Dominates Social Media Reach, TikTok Now Rivals Snapchat, Twitter
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, April 7, 2021
In its debut in a highly regarded study of Americans' social media platform usage, TikTok ranks just behind Snapchat and Twitter, and well ahead of the far more established Redd ...
- SMBs Ready To Restart 2021 Ad Budgets, Study Shows
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Local traditional media may see strong benefits. Several marketers at small and-medium sized businesses surveyed said they would "return" to advertising with a "shop local" message, Borrell Associates finds, buyi ...
- Six Ways To Combine Email Marketing And Social
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Email is a powerful marketing medium. But it works even better when tied to social media. Here are six methods to incorporate into your email campaigns, starting with including appropria ...
- ACLU Shares Data With Facebook: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The American Civil Liberties Union has acknowledged in its revised privacy policy that it is sharing data with Facebook, a firm whose policies it frequently criticizes. Here are the details.&n ...
- Court Ends Battle Between Trump And Blocked Critics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2021
The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Dept. of Justice's request to vacate a lower court's ruling that former President Donald Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking critics ...
- Instagram For Kids Raises 'Serious Concerns,' Lawmakers Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2021
"Children are a uniquely vulnerable population online, and images of kids are highly sensitive data," Sens. Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal and Reps. Kathy Castor and Lori Trahan said Mond ...
- Supreme Court Won't Revive Right-Wing Activists' Lawsuit Against Tech Platforms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2021
In a defeat for right-wing activists Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider reviving a lawsuit accusing Google, Twitter, Facebook and Apple of conspiri ...
- Facebook Unveils New Ad Units Tailored For Streamers
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, April 5, 2021
"[Streaming] advertisers no longer have to manually create new campaigns for each individual title," said Facebook's James Smith. ...
- Facebook Breach Exposes Data On 553 Million Users
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 5, 2021
Data on 553 million Facebook users was published on an online hacking forum. Included were names, birthdates, locations and some email addresses. ...
- Facebook Hacked, Zuckerberg's Phone Number Leaked To Web
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 5, 2021
A hacker on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of Facebook users, exposing personal information of more than 533 million users from 106 countries, including over 32 milli ...
- How Neustar Changes Customer Identity Data Management
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 5, 2021
Facing significant changes, from Apple's IDFA to Google Cohorts, marketers need to think outside their silos. Working with one provider drives accuracy and less data loss. ...
- Facebook Explores Ranking Some Key Content Categories Differently
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 2, 2021
Facebook has been exploring how and whether to rank some important content categories differently such as news, politics, and health, to make it easier to find posts it deems valuab ...
- Facebook Prevails In Robotexting Battle
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 1, 2021
Handing Facebook a victory, the Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously reversed a lower court ruling that would have required the company to face a lawsuit over unwanted text messages. ...
