- Meta Pitches Reach At NewFronts: Unveils New AR, Shopping Ads
MediaPost Live, Colin Kirkland - Friday, May 5, 2023
With new AR ad features for Instagram Reels and Facebook Stories a ...
- Instagram Tests New Generative-AI Sticker Creator, Expands AI Use Cases
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, May 4, 2023
Instagram is testing a generative AI feature that would allow users ...
- Meta Intros Personalization Controls For Facebook Reels
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Meta is introducing new personalization controls to its video format, inviting use ...
- FTC Seeks To Prohibit Facebook From Harnessing Minors' Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Meta Platforms violated prior privacy settlements, and as a result should st ...
- Senators Introduce Revised Teens Online Safety Bill
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Lawmakers introduced a revision version of a bill that would regulate h ...
- Meta's $37.5 Million Location Privacy Settlement Advances
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 28, 2023
If granted final approval, the deal will resolve a complaint alleging Facebo ...
- Meta Tests New Automated Tools For Shops Ads, Implements Required In-App Checkouts
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Friday, April 28, 2023
Meta has announced its further investment in AI ad targeting through Sho ...
- Media Measurement Has A Big Problem: The Deprecation Of Big Data
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, May 1, 2023
A funny thing happened on the ad industry's way to a B ...
- Advertisers Advised To Pursue Meta For Refunds For Delivery, Overspend Glitch
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, April 27, 2023
Meta says it's doing an analysis to assess refund "opportunities." ...
- System Glitch Causes Significant Facebook Advertising Overspend
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Monday, April 24, 2023
Some larger brands lost hundreds of thousands, at least temporarily, with f ...
- Social Platforms Urge Judge To Throw Out Suit Over Teens' Mental Health
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 18, 2023
The major social media platforms are urging a federal judge to dismi ...
- Analytics Business Voyager Asks Judge To Toss Meta's Suit Over Data Scraping
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 17, 2023
Voyager Labs says Meta shouldn't be able to proceed with a lawsu ...
- Arkansas Requires Age Verification To Use Social Media
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 13, 2023
Arkansas this week became the second state to require social media platfor ...
- Facebook Recovers From Tuesday Morning Outage
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Facebook has recovered from a worldwide outage that left users unable ...
- Meta Pushes Court To Reject Class Action Over Inflated Ad Metrics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 7, 2023
"A fraud class where over three million members have seen dramatically differe ...
- Meta Pays Metaverse Programmers Salaries Approaching $1M, Despite Layoffs
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Friday, April 7, 2023
Reality Labs, Meta's metaverse division, received 20% of the company's total spendi ...
- Arkansas Passes Bill Banning Minors From Social Media Without Parents' Consent
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 6, 2023
Arkansas on Thursday joined Utah in passing legislation that would ban mino ...
- Animal Rights Activists Lose Fight With NIH Over Social Media Comments
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 5, 2023
The government did not violate the First Amendment by blocking comments ...
- Facebook Fires Salvo In Fight Against The JCPA
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 3, 2023
Paper argues that Meta derives little economic benefit from sparse news conte ...
- Senators Reintroduce Bill Requiring Platforms To Subsidize News
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 31, 2023
Lawmakers in the Senate are renewing their attempt to pass a controversi ...
- Brand Influencer Platform Launches Social Media Advertising Via Content Creators
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Friday, March 31, 2023
Creator-guided shopping platform LTK has launched a new ad solution that invit ...
- Arkansas Sues Facebook, Instagram And TikTok
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 30, 2023
"We are sending Silicon Valley a clear message that their success cann ...
- Meta Introduces New Video Ad Solutions, Winds Down In-Stream Reserve Program
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, March 28, 2023
On Tuesday, Meta announced new video capabilities for advertisers including a call-to-acti ...
- Bill Requiring Warnings For Social Media Advances In Florida
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Florida lawmakers advanced a proposal to require platforms to warn underage use ...
- Meta Urges Judge To Toss 'Speculative' Privacy Claims Over In-App Browser
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 24, 2023
Meta says allegations that it tracks smartphone users through an in-app brows ...
- New Metric Measures How Videos Perform Based On When They Were Uploaded
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, March 23, 2023
Tubular Labs has announced a new measurement capability for how videos perfo ...
- Meta Launches Paid Verification On Instagram, Facebook In U.S.
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Friday, March 17, 2023
Meta Verified is now being rolled out to U.S. Instagram and Facebo ...
- Twitter Urges Court To Reject Trump Claims Over Suspension
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 16, 2023
Former president Donald Trump has no valid claim that his First Amendme ...
- Meta Announces 10,000 Additional Job Cuts
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Meta has also announced the cancellation of 5,000 open roles. The fir ...
- Meta Defeats Video Privacy Claims Over Live Streaming
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Siding with Meta Platforms, a judge has dismissed claims that the soci ...