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CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces intention is to hire 3,000 extra members of staff to review content. The increase comes on top of the 4,500 employees Facebook already has to review content broadcast or posted that could be judged as being in violation of the companyâs community standards. In the post on... Read more
Photo-matching tech will allow users to easily report intimate images, posted without consent. Facebook is acting in a new bid to limit the amount of ârevenge pornâ being shared and reposted across its contingent of social media platforms, in a move praised by campaigners and advocacy groups. The new measures... Read more
WhatsApp Status now offers photo-based status updates taken by your phone’s camera, as well as the ability to add text, emojis, decorations, and more! This isn’t your grandmother’s social media anymore, or at least that’s what one company is hoping to project with its newest worldwide rollout. Facebook-owned WhatsApp... Read more
YouTube To Stop Lengthy “Unskippable” Ads
NewsSocial Media February 21, 2017
“Unskippable” ads will be ditched on YouTube – great for viewers but not so good for YouTubers! We all want something for nothing, and in the case of online video content, the trade off is typically annoying popup offers or irritating video ads that play before the desired content.... Read more
Disney Drops YouTube Star PewDiePie After Anti-Semitism âJoke.â
NewsSocial Media February 15, 2017
Disney severs ties to worldâs highest paid YouTuber over allegations of anti-Semitism. PewDiePie, one of the worldâs most popular and enduring social media stars and who has 53 million subscribers on YouTube has landed himself in hot water over âhumorousâ content he released in January, that he says has... Read more
Twitter Releases New Anti-Abuse Tools
NewsSocial Media February 13, 2017
Twitter has announced more changes intended to limit the amount of abuse on its network, but is it too little too late? Twitter has announced three main changes to its platforms to challenge online abuse at some point in the “coming weeks”. The move comes as the platform continues to... Read more
Facebook And Google Join With French Media To Fight âFake Newsâ
NewsSocial Media February 7, 2017
Google and Facebook have announced partnership ahead of French presidential elections in April. Both Facebook and Google will work with French media brands to fact check and flag hoaxes, conspiracy theories or propaganda; more commonly referred to as âfake newsâ, in a move that mirrors similar efforts already under way in the... Read more
Trump Inauguration Breaks Live Streaming Records
NewsSocial Media January 27, 2017
Here Are Some Viewing Stats The New President Wonât Have To Defend. While Donald J Trumpâs public ascendancy to President of the United States of America may â or may not â have gathered quite as many people as Barack Obama’s inauguration, it did manage to break records when... Read more
Twitter Forces Users To Follow Trump
NewsSocial Media January 25, 2017
Apology from Twitter after 500,000 users made to follow @POTUS In a major transition of power “oops,” Twitter accidentally forced more than half a million people to follow Donald Trump’s new @POTUS account when it made the shift from being President Barack Obama’s @POTUS account. The well-intentioned yet seriously... Read more
Facebook Germany To Tackle Fake News Ahead Of Election
NewsSocial Media January 20, 2017
Facebook has announced plans that it will introduce new measures to reduce the dissemination of fake news stories in Germany ahead of this Septemberâs national elections. The move comes hot on the heels of last Novemberâs US Presidential election where âFake Newsâ shared on social media sites has been... Read more
Zuckerberg To Visit Every State In The US: The Start Of A Political Career?
NewsSocial Media January 6, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, has given more credence to growing rumours that he is planning an eventual move into political life, by announcing that he intends to travel across the US in 2017, and meet people in every state. The news was released in a Facebook... Read more
Facebook, WhatsApp, And The (Alleged) Misleading Of The EU
NewsSocial Media December 28, 2016
Facebook has found itself formally accused by the European Commissionâs merger and anti-trust watchdog of misleading EU oversight regulators over its 2014 takeover of WhatsApp. The European Commission says it was misled when Facebook said it was impossible to match users’ Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. In August, this year... Read more
Fake News Spreads To Law Enforcement Agencies
NewsSocial Media December 26, 2016
The onslaught of fake news has reached epidemic proportions, so much so that a number of social media sites are taking action. Once limited to just satire sites – and a few sites whose satire wasn’t quite witty enough to be recognized as satire – the reach of fake... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg’s Own Personal Jarvis
NewsSocial Media December 22, 2016
What’s better than an Alexa or a Google Home virtual assistant? Building one yourself, making it meet all your personal specs, having it customized to interact with all the members of your household, and getting to name it Jarvis after Tony Stark’s VA in Ironman. Of course, when you’re... Read more
Trump Dumps Twitter From Tech Meeting Over Emoji
NewsSocial Media December 22, 2016
Donald Trump isn’t even officially the President yet, but he’s already affecting the economic statuses of major corporations through his late-night social media criticism. Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin suffered stock dips after critical rants from the PEOTUS, but the most Twitter-addicted politician in history took aim at Twitter... Read more
According to new research by the EU, US tech firms only manage to remove less than half of all confirmed reports of hate speech within one day. The news comes as the European Commission decided to investigate whether the tech giant companies were delivering on the promise they made... Read more
Facebook Develops Tool To Censor Posts Based On Location
NewsSocial Media November 30, 2016
There’s never been a better time to install a VPN, especially if you’ve come to rely on your social media feeds to discover news articles that matter to you. According to a new report, Facebook has developed a tool that will let third-parties (ie, the government) censor posts based... Read more
Facebook Details How It Will Fight ‘Misinformation’ And Fake News Stories
NewsSocial Media November 25, 2016
With controversy still rampant over how big a role fake Facebook news stories played in the US Presidential election, company founder Mark Zuckerberg has publicly laid out new options for how the social network could handle ‘misinformation.’ Current President, Barrack Obama singled out Facebook and websites for the impact... Read more