Twitter joins Facebook in supporting Honest Ads Act
Facebook has already said it's going to support legislation that regulates how political ads are shown online. Now, we can add Twitter to that list. The move by Twitter leaves Google as the only other major tech company to not support the Honest Ads Act, which would require companies to …
Twitter backs digital ad regulation
“@Twitter just joined @Facebook and announced support of my bill to require social media companies to post paid political ads and require disclaimers. We need to hold tech companies to same rules as everyone else. #HonestAdsAct #Progress Need to hear from @google,” Klobuchar tweeted. Read More
Twitter says it will comply with Honest Ads Act to combat Russia social media meddling
Twitter today pledged to support a proposed Senate bill that would require technology platforms that sell advertising space to disclose the source of and amount of money paid for political ads. Called the Honest Ads Act, the bipartisan bill was first introduced back in October by Sen. Amy Klobuchar … Read …
What the government could actually do about Facebook
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before Congress Tuesday and Wednesday in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and revelations about the platform's role in the dissemination of Russian disinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign to answer questions … Read More
Zuckerberg faces grilling over Facebook controversies
Mark Zuckerberg has been told by lawmakers that if Facebook cannot staunch its privacy leaks then he should be prepared for the US Congress to wade in to police it. In opening statements at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, lawmakers excoriated Mr Zuckerberg for failing to protect users' personal … Read …
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook didn’t notify FTC of leak: ‘We considered it a closed case’
Mark Zuckerberg is testifying at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday. It's the first of two congressional hearings for the Facebook founder and CEO. Zuckerberg is likely to face tough questions on user privacy, foreign meddling on the site and abuse of social media … Read …
Social Studies: Reds’ Lisa Braun On Fan Engagement, Bloopers
We have in terms of overall information a program called Reds Way, which is a customer service training. Everyone who interacts with the fans from the people who work in the parking garage to concessions to the ushers and security, everyone goes through this training. It's really to enhance the …
New documents reveal Cambridge Analytica pitched ‘unique’ social media data in multiple US …
According to previously unseen documents obtained by Channel 4 News, Cambridge Analytica was pitching its “unique” social media data and “psychographic profiling” to multiple Republican election campaigns in the US after harvesting the profiles of up to 87 million mostly American Facebook users. Read More
Take advantage of social media that will pay you real money
While Facebook steals your information and makes billions off of it, here are some social media platforms that give you part of the cut. In the age of smartphones, we find ourselves more and more attached to social media. This new relationship with social platforms on the internet has quite …
Explainer: What social media platforms and search engines know about you
What it shares: Most social media platforms are open to outside developers who create apps fed in varying degrees by using data from users of these networks. In the case of Facebook, the public profile — the whole page for some people, or just the first and last name and …