It’s Time For Facebook To Stop Talking And Start Listening
At strategic PR moments Facebook in particular has assured its users it is listening to them, but nowhere in its 15 years has the company just sat down quietly at the table, turned to its two billion users and said “we don't have the answers, so we're going to stop …
Facebook To Vet Advertisers’ Identity Before Allowing ‘Issues’ Ads To Better Protect Elections
Moving forward, Facebook will require every advertiser to be individually authorized to run both political and "issues ads,” Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post on Friday. The verification process entails confirming each advertiser's identity and location, and any entity … Read More
Facebook reportedly suspends AggregateIQ over connection to improper data-sharing
AggregateIQ, a Canadian advertising tech and audience intelligence company, has been suspended by Facebook for allegedly being closely connected with SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, reported the National Observer. News broke late last month that AIQ, which was deeply … Read More
Facebook: apologise, reform, repeat
Facebook's leaders have been making up for lost time. After spending much of last year rejecting accusations of Russian election interference, and after responding late to mounting anger over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the expressions of regret are now flowing freely. Chief operating officer … Read More
Zuckerberg: Facebook has systems to stop hate speech. Myanmar groups: No, it doesn’t.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's systems detected and stopped violent messages from being sent on the social network in Myanmar. Civil society groups working in the country are pushing back and saying that isn't the case. Close to 700,000 Rohingya, a minority Muslim group, have … Read More
We’re Keeping Track of All of Facebook’s Scandals So You Don’t Have To
The political analysis firm acquired the data of millions of Facebook users from a researcher who collected it via a quiz app on the platform. Cambridge Analytica was also linked to President Trump's campaign during 2016 and had used the data to build psychological voter profiles ahead of the election. …
Facebook demands ID verification for big Pages, ‘issue’ ad buyers
Facebook is looking to self-police by implementing parts of the proposed Honest Ads Act before the government tries to regulate it. To fight fake news and election interference, Facebook will require the admins of popular Facebook Pages and advertisers buying political or “issue” ads on “debated topics … Read More
New Facebook controls aim to regulate political ads and fight fake news
Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight fake news and political misinformation, with new controls intended to ensure authenticity and transparency among advertisers and publishers on the site. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post shortly after the moves were announced: “These steps by themselves … Read More
Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook
In 2004 Zuckerberg cofounded Facebook, which rapidly spread from Harvard to other universities. And in 2006 the young company blindsided its users with the launch of News Feed, which collated and presented in one place information that people had previously had to search for piecemeal. Read More
Facebook announces changes to combat election meddling
Facebook rolled out another big set of changes to its platform on Friday in advance of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony on Capitol Hill next week. The social media company will now begin labeling all political and issue ads, and showing who paid for them, and it will require anyone who …