Tag: Social Media

WhatsApp Gets Another Great Feature And This One Is Long Overdue

WhatsApp is getting a really important new feature that could save a lot of irritation – Photo credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS WhatsApp has one especially frustrating feature – the ability for anyone to add you to a group, even if you don’t want to be in it. This has fairly serious implications for a number of […]

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Revealed: Facebook enables ads to target users interested in ‘vaccine controversies’

Social media platforms under pressure by US congressman to crack down on anti-vaccine propaganda, citing Guardian investigations acebook has been pressured to stop promoting anti-vaccine propaganda. Photograph: Facebook Facebook enables advertisers to promote content to nearly 900,000 people interested in “vaccine controversies”, the Guardian has found. Other groups of people that advertisers can pay to reach […]

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Facebook taps user data to defend workers from threat

A Facebook spokesman said the company’s physical security team exists to keep workers safe Facebook gathers intelligence from its platform to identify people who threaten the firm or its workers, the social network said Thursday in response to media reports of the security tactic. CNBC reported that it interviewed more than a dozen former Facebook […]

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10 Social Media Marketing Tools You Just Might Need

Social media marketing is a rather counterintuitive field. It looks like anyone could do it: post something (anything!) on social media, look for existing content, talk to people, fill your company’s Instagram account with your most photogenic team members. Sounds like a task for any kid of today’s social media era. However, if you want your […]

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Facebook needs regulation – here’s why it should be done by algorithms

Facebook has been likened to a “digital gangster” by a critical parliamentary report into disinformation and fake news. One witness in the 18-month inquiry into the way digital platforms have transformed the flow of information describes the current use of technology as “hijacking our minds and society”. The report, commissioned by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport […]

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