Facebook's algorithm has wiped out a once-flourishing digital publisher

The company was one of a group of media company that had quickly amassed a big following on Facebook. But Facebook's recent algorithm tweak had throttled its traffic severely, causing its profit to plummet, the company says.

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The Curious Case of Facebook's Clinton Ad Controversy

On Monday night, a new voice joined the furious debate over the extent to which Facebook is culpable for President Donald Trump. “We should all care about how social-media platforms play a part in our democratic process. Because unless it's addressed it will happen again,” tweeted Hillary Clinton.

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Facebook Says Donald Trump Paid More for Online Ads Than Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump's presidential campaign paid slightly more for ads on Facebook than Hillary Clinton, the social network said, refuting claims that it had tacitly helped get the Republican elected. Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth said Tuesday on Twitter that Trump's campaign “paid slightly higher CPM ...

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The weird and surprising things I found in the file Facebook has on me

The video is of a TV screen playing an old VHS tape and appears to be taken on a camera phone. My guess is my younger sister found the tape and filmed the video to send to me. But maybe I should just ask Facebook, because that's where I found it — in the huge file containing my extensive Facebook ...

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Donald Trump Paid Higher Ad Prices Than Hillary Clinton, Facebook Says

Facebook Inc. wants to set the record straight: presidential candidate Donald Trump spent slightly more per ad on the site than his rival Hillary Clinton did ahead of the general election in 2016. The revelation comes after a former employee wrote an article for Wired that posited a theory: since Facebook ...

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Trump's New Campaign Manager Is Already Facebook's Worst Nightmare

He's running!!! Again. On Tuesday, President Trump announced that Brad Parscale, his digital strategist, will serve as campaign manager for his reelection effort. This is, basically, the worst possible news for Facebook right now, and it's already causing political trouble for the social media giant.

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What Facebook Isn't Saying About Trump and Clinton's Campaign Ads

According to Facebook, during the 2016 election, President Trump's campaign actually paid higher rates to advertise on the platform overall than Hillary Clinton's campaign did. The disclosure by Facebook came Tuesday by way of Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth's Twitter feed. It follows days of ...

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Facebook: Trump campaign paid more for ads than Clinton campaign

Facebook is on the defensive about ad spending by political campaigns. Andrew Bosworth, the social network's current vice president of augmented and virtual reality, and former VP of advertising, took to Twitter to share how much the Trump and Clinton campaigns spent on political ads during the 2016 ...

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Barack Obama calls on Facebook and Google to change approach amid exploitation by 'Isil and ...

Barack Obama has demanded Facebook and Google change their business models after warning the platforms are being exploited by jihadists and “neo-Nazis”. The former US president called on the internet giants to realise they are a “public good” rather than simply commercial companies seeking ...

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Facebook says Trump paid more than Clinton to reach its users during 2016 US election campaign

A Facebook executive who ran the company's advertising business during the 2016 U.S. election said Tuesday that President Trump paid more than Hillary Clinton to reach potential voters on the social media platform. "After some discussion we've decided to share the CPM comparison on Trump ...

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Facebook's New Face Recognition Features: What We Do (and Mostly Don't) Know

When we reached out to Facebook for more information on how the face recognition features work, they referred us to two blog posts from December announcing the new settings and addressing privacy concerns. Reading those statements closely can tell us a lot, but there's just as much we don't know.

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North Carolina Facebook Live Murder Suspect Arrested

A suspect is charged with murder in the shooting of a man who filmed his own death on Facebook Live Monday in Wingate, North Carolina. “He turned himself in this morning,” Tony Underwood, media relations officer for the Union County Sheriff's Office, said. Douglas Cleveland Colson, 65, was ...

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Another livestreamed murder, and renewed scrutiny for Facebook

The biggest problem with Facebook's live-streaming service may very well be its primary selling point. “The issue with live-streaming is that it's live,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a professor of communications and social media at Syracuse University's Newhouse School. “When they opened this product to every ...

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Facebook Is Helping Local News Publishers Get More Digital Subscribers

Head of news partnerships Campbell Brown announced in a blog post that the Facebook Journalism Project launched a $3 million, three-month Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, which will work with several metropolitan news organizations on building their digital customer acquisitions on and off ...

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Facebook's support for local news subscriptions is one move in the larger dance between ...

The $3 million, three-month-long pilot brings in 13 metropolitan newsrooms: the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post, The Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Omaha World-Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The ...

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Facebook is dead serious about getting you reading more local news

The news: Axios reports that the social network is launching a “$3 million, three-month pilot program” to coach “10-15 metro news organizations” and help them “build digital customer acquisitions on and off Facebook.” Ex-New York Times exec Tim Griggs is running the show. Backstory: As part of its ...

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Facebook launches a local news accelerator for publishers

Facebook is trying to play extra nice with local news publishers by putting $3 million behind the launch of the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator. The three-month pilot program will help 10 to 15 U.S.-based metropolitan news organizations gain more digital subscribers both on and off Facebook.

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A Judge Denied Facebook's Attempt to Kill a Privacy Suit Over Biometric Face Prints

The Illinois law included in its purview “faceprints,” which is what companies like Facebook and Google use to identity you in photos. They create faceprints by analyzing your face in the many tagged photos of you that have already been uploaded to their servers. Class-action lawsuits were filed against ...

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Murder suspect surrenders after killing North Carolina man on Facebook Live

Douglas Cleveland Colson, 65, fled the scene after allegedly gunning down a North Carolina resident walking home from the police station, video of the incident showed. But now, he's turned himself in. Colson, who police named as a suspect in the murder, surrendered to the Wingate Police Department ...

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Facebook wants to boost your local newspaper's subscriptions

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a $3 million, three-month pilot program in the US to help metropolitan newspapers with digital subscriptions. Called the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, the program will work with 10 to 15 metro newspapers, and it will include some unspecified funding grants.

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When he went on Facebook Live, he didn't know he'd be streaming his own murder

A man was shot and killed in Wingate, NC on Monday – and it was caught on Facebook Live, officials confirmed to the Observer. The man was identified as Prentis Robinson by the Union County Sheriff's Office. The shooting sent Wingate University into a lockdown, though the shooting was off campus ...

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Facebook launches European digital hubs

Facebook has launched a new European digital skills training programme, aimed at teaching 300,000 people internet skills, media literacy and online safety by 2020. The programme will be delivered in person from three community skills hubs based in Poland, Italy and Spain, but will also operate ...

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How to land a job at Facebook

"Mark's personal challenge for 2018 is to fix Facebook, so when you talk about separating recruiting and retention, I actually think its quite part and parcel of recruiting people who want to work on the most important problems about connecting the world," she said during Glassdoor's Best Places to Work ...

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Facebook program aims to boost local news subscriptions

Just because Facebook is downplaying publishers in your News Feed doesn't mean it's uninterested in giving media outlets a helping hand. The social network's Journalism Project is launching a Local News Subscriptions Accelerator that will help "metro newspapers" grow their reader bases. The $3 ...

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Facebook is starting to tell more users about facial recognition

Facebook users have been noticing a strange new notification in their News Feeds, letting them know about the platform's increasingly comprehensive facial recognition features. Users with further questions are directed to a privacy page with more information and more detailed instructions for opting out ...

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Even Barack Obama thinks Facebook and Google need to change their ways

“I do think the large platforms—Google and Facebook being the most obvious, Twitter and others as well, are part of that ecosystem—have to have a conversation about their business model that recognizes they are a public good as well as a commercial enterprise. They're not just an invisible platform, ...

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Facebook's vaguely worded face recognition “announcement” coincided with a legal setback

For background: Facebook has long analyzed biometric data in photographs to make it easier to tag people. In fact, this technology has been the subject of many lawsuits–most of which took place in states like Illinois, which restrict companies' ability to collect and store biometric data without consent.

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Facebook should disclose and limit pricing for political campaign ads

An interesting report by Antonio García Martínez at Wired on the Facebook ad machinery in play during the 2016 election highlighted an issue that I hadn't considered before: that Facebook's ad marketplace gave a huge pricing advantage to one candidate over the other. It seems like a no-brainer in ...

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Trump's Facebook advertising advantage, explained

Over the weekend, that meant plugging Wired's extensive look at how Trump's campaign effectively used Facebook. And, in response to a question posed by Wired editor in chief Nick Thompson, a bold claim about how much more effective his campaign's ad spending was, relative to Hillary Clinton's.

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Suspected Facebook Live killer turns himself in

Robinson was known for strolling around Wingate and filming, “walking and talking. Just walking and talking. If somebody messed with him he'd definitely go on Live,” one family member told the outlet. He broadcast himself on Facebook Live almost daily and filmed himself the day he died marching to ...

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'Good Samaritan' musician films his own murder on Facebook Live 'as drug gang seek revenge for ...

In the seconds leading up to his death on Monday, Prentis was talking on Facebook Live about his desire to move from Charlotte to Atlanta, when suddenly a figure in a blue jacket appears in the frame. Prentis appears agitated by the sight of his gun, and says: "You on Live" repeatedly in a calm voice, ...

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The man behind Trump's Facebook campaign strategy will reportedly run his 2020 campaign

The campaign's — and Parscale's — Facebook strategy has drawn particular scrutiny. As The Verge has reported, Facebook's system rewards more polarizing ads — a boon to the Trump campaign, which ended up paying a better rate for ads compared to the Clinton campaign. “Facebook and Twitter ...

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Facebook launches program to help local news outlets boost digital subscriptions

The Facebook Journalism Project has announced a new program today called Local News Subscriptions Accelerator that will work with several local US outlets over the next three months to help bolster their subscription efforts. The pilot program has $3 million in funding and will work with 10 to 15 news ...

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Barack Obama isn't happy with Facebook and Google, either

Google and Facebook aren't just incredibly profitable tech companies — they are “public goods” with a responsibility to serve the public, says Barack Obama. “I do think the large platforms — Google and Facebook being the most obvious, Twitter and others as well, are part of that ecosystem — have to ...

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Facebook Live murder: North Carolina man arrested

Police in North Carolina say a man was fatally shot as he was broadcasting himself on Facebook Live. Prentis Robinson, 55, had just left a police station where he had reported one of his phones as stolen, and was filming himself with a selfie stick. A man is then seen in the short video exchanging words ...

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What is Vero? The 'Facebook Killer' app that's become so popular it's CRASHING in parts of the UK

It's been described as the "new Instagram" and a "Facebook killer" and is attracting thousands of users - but you'd be forgiven for never having heard of Vero. Just like Facebook and Instagram it offers a way to post updates and pictures and connect with your friends. But there are a few subtle differences ...

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Facebook says page of firebrand anti-Rohingya Myanmar monk removed

YANGON: Facebook has removed the page of a Myanmar monk once dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" for his incendiary posts about Muslims, the company confirmed, as it faces pressure to clamp down on hate speech. Wirathu, a prominent face of Myanmar's Buddhist ultra-nationalist movement, had ...

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Facebook Messenger funded counter-extremism pilot project

Facebook used a pilot project to try and de-radicalise people with extremist views on Facebook Messenger. Big tech companies have been under fire of late for the radicalisation and propagation of extremist views that can often take place on their platforms. The EU has had measures in place to monitor ...

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Facebook will reportedly work with local media to tackle digital subscription strain

Participating organizations will receive coaching from digital subscription experts and take part in weekly training sessions. Facebook has been criticized for diverting traffic from traditional news publishers, despite insisting that it's not a media company. The pilot program through the Facebook ...

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US man who 'outed suspected drug dealers' captures own murder on Facebook Live video

Multiple sources tell me the victim (Prentis Robinson) in the Wingate shooting had been outing people on Facebook Live who were suspected drug dealers in the neighborhood. Victim was shot, killed while on Facebook Live — minutes after visiting the Police Department. @FOX46News pic.twitter.com/ ...

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Facebook says page of firebrand anti-Rohingya Myanmar monk Wirathu removed

YANGON (AFP) - Facebook has removed the page of a Myanmar monk once dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" for his incendiary posts about Muslims, the company confirmed, as it faces pressure to clamp down on hate speech. Wirathu, a prominent face of Myanmar's Buddhist ultra-nationalist ...

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Facebook is playing nice with its telecoms frenemies this year

Facebook is in a sharing mood at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show this year, inviting telcos and equipment vendors to share the spotlight with it. Jay Parikh, the social network's infrastructure chief, held a briefing for the media with five telco partners, announcing partnerships and projects ...

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Full disclosh: Facebook to pay shareholders $35m over IPO non-disclosure claims

Facebook and its top execs have agreed to pay out $35m to get shareholders off their case over allegations the biz knew mobile use was affecting ad revenue before it went public in 2012. The company filed its initial public offering on May 17, 2012, when it sold more than 421 million shares at $38 per ...

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Facebook pays terror victims to talk down extremists on Messenger

Theresa May has repeatedly chastised technology companies like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, which have become hotbeds for hiring and recruiting extremists. The government now expects Facebook to remove offending content within two hours of being identified. The technology giant has always ...

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Websites That Pay Users With Blockchain Aim to Disrupt Facebook

The so-called financial internet stands the Facebook business model on its head. With Facebook, users post content on the site and the company collects the money -- last year, $41 billion in revenue. On Steemit, the money goes in the other direction. Facebook, with 2.1 billion monthly users, may not ...

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German prosecutors drop case against Facebook involving 'hate speech'

Despite the list of posts, the prosecutor said: "Failing to delete illegal posts on the internet platform in a timely way is not a basis for suspicion of criminal behaviour by executives at Facebook." Germany has in recent months moved to clamp down against online hate speech. A new law that came into ...

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He was suspected of outing drug dealers on Facebook. Someone came for him during a livestream.

He was on Facebook Live Monday, recording himself with a selfie stick, wearing the straw cowboy hat he often wore in videos. He talked about how his phone was stolen as he walked around his town of Wingate, North Carolina, 30 miles southeast of Charlotte. He stopped by the Wingate Police ...

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Man killed while livestreaming on Facebook after allegedly outing drug dealers

Prentis Robinson rarely went a day without using Facebook Live - his go-to way of broadcasting his music and his musings. He was on Facebook Live Monday, recording himself with a selfie stick, wearing the straw cowboy hat he often wore in videos. He talked about how his phone was stolen as he ...

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Facebook settles class-action lawsuit over 2012 IPO

Facebook has agreed to pay US$35 million to settle claims that its officers and directors misled investors in the company's 2012 initial public offering, Bloomberg reports. The company, which operates the world's largest social media network, didn't admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement, which was ...

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North Carolina man shot to death while live on Facebook

A North Carolina man who was broadcasting himself live on Facebook as he was walking down a street was shot and killed by another man on Monday, police said. Just minutes before the 10 a.m. shooting, Prentis Robinson had been to the Wingate police department and spoke with the chief about a ...

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North Carolina man killed on Facebook Live minutes after leaving police station

Robinson's Facebook page is filled with live videos of him playing instruments and walking down the street with a selfie-stick. Nothing seemed different when the 55-year-old was filming live Monday morning, selfie-stick in hand, complaining about a family member who Robinson claims stole one of his ...

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Facebook expands customer service tools in Messenger

Google isn't the only one looking to improve messaging software to help businesses connect meaningfully (and profitably) with customers. Facebook just announced a new update to its own Messenger platform, which improves quick replies, expands on customer chat plugins and better customization ...

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Facebook updates Messenger with more business chat features

Facebook has updated Messenger with more business chat features. The social networking giant said Messenger 2.3 will bring deeper engagement between businesses and customers via improved customization features for customer service chats.

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Facebook Messenger used to fight extremism

Facebook Messenger has been used to try to deradicalise extremists in a pilot project funded entirely by the company. People posting extreme far-right and Islamist content in the UK were identified and contacted in an attempt to challenge their views. Of the 569 people contacted, 76 had a conversation ...

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Why Is Vero Going Viral?

By Monday evening, the app had risen to the top spot in the iOS App Store, ahead of YouTube, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook. (Note that the App Store rankings are based on an algorithm that emphasizes spikes in popularity, rather than the total number of downloads.) ...

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Facebook reaches a $35 million settlement for class-action lawsuit over its 2012 IPO

Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reached a $35 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought on by shareholders. The shareholders claimed that Facebook had been hiding concerns about its growth just before the social media company's IPO in May 2012; Facebook shares dipped ...

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Facebook is letting automated chat-bots offer dangerous health advice on its apps and website

The diagnoses were offered by bots in response to symptoms typed into Facebook Messenger. Doctors have warned the service, which is unregulated, puts patients at risk. Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, from the Royal College of GPs, said: “A system which uses robot-based instant messaging via social ...

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Curling and US snowboarder Shaun White were popular Olympics topics on Facebook — we just ...

The Olympics are already over, and while American athletes didn't dominate the podium, they did dominate the public conversation on Facebook. On Monday, the social network unveiled some data about the past 17 days of Olympics-related conversations, including things like the “most-talked-about ...

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NC man livestreams his own killing on Facebook

A gunman shot and killed a North Carolina man Monday while the victim was broadcasting live on Facebook using a selfie stick. Police say Prentis Robinson — who often livestreamed himself via his phone while walking around the town of Wingate, N.C. — was shot while on one of his typical Facebook ...

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North Carolina Man Shot to Death While Live on Facebook

North Carolina Man Shot to Death While Live on Facebook. Police say a North Carolina man was shot and killed by another man while he was recording himself live on Facebook. Feb. 26, 2018, at 5:31 p.m.. Feb. 26, 2018, at 5:31 p.m.. U.S. News & World Report. North Carolina Man Shot to Death While ...

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On Facebook

I think professional dress code is still necessary. Singaporeans are very shabby compared with people in other countries. Linda Lim. If so, you might as well work from home. An office is not like your SOHO (small office/home office). Have some decorum and respect. Andrew Singh. At many companies ...

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Facebook Can't Avoid Privacy Suit Over Biometric Face Prints

U.S. District Judge James Donato's decision to let the class-action case proceed means that Facebook is still potentially on the hook for fines under a unique Illinois law of $1,000 to $5,000 each time a person's image is used without permission. A court victory for consumers could lead to new restrictions ...

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Trump campaign gamed Facebook ads even better than we thought

Did Facebook's ad platform give Donald Trump an unfair advantage in the 2016 election? That's a question I tried to answer last October, when I looked at how the dynamics of the ad platform can promote more polarizing ads. It came up again over the weekend, as more people digested Antonio García ...

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North Carolina man murdered on Facebook Live was outing suspected drug dealers

According to Wingate police, Robinson was on Facebook Live when he was shot by an unknown suspect. It's unclear if Robinson and his shooter knew one another. Deputies say they're looking for a black man who was seen wearing a blue and black windbreaker and brown Timberland boots.

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2 of the most powerful people in media are building a case against Facebook and Google, and a ...

The heads of CNN and News Corp. have both spoken out against the power Facebook and Google have over digital media. On Monday, CNN President Jeff Zucker said the government should look at Facebook and Google's monopoly power. News Corp. executive chairman Rupert Murdoch said in ...

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Why Donald Trump Was the 'Perfect Candidate' for Facebook

Here is the central tenet of Facebook's business: If lots of people click on, comment on, or share an ad, Facebook charges that advertiser less money to reach people. The platform is a brawl for user attention, and Facebook sees a more engaging ad as a better ad, which should be shown to more users.

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Mom's Panicked Facebook Message to Fire Department Saves Choking Son's Life

A woman in Wayland, Michigan sent a frantic Facebook message to the Wayland Fire Department: Her son was choking, the Heimlich maneuver wasn't helping, and she didn't have access to a phone to dial 911. The page's administrator sprung into action, responded to the message immediately, and ...

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Man films his own MURDER when a gunman opens fire on him as he records a Facebook Live ...

A man has tragically filmed his own murder on Facebook Live after a gunman opened fire on him near a North Carolina university campus. Prentis Robinson, who is aged in his 50s, was shot dead as he walked by Wingate University's campus on Monday morning. Robinson had been filming himself ...

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Musician celebrating birthday films his own murder on Facebook Live

Union County Sheriff spokesman Tony Underwood said after: 'We're pursuing leads and trying to figure out what this is all about.' Prentis, who regularly filmed his day-to-day activities on Facebook Live, was mourned by friends on the social media site. Walter Rorie wrote: 'I'm not only pissed but I'm hurt.

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Man films own killing on Facebook Live

A man walking while holding a live-streaming phone on a selfie stick was shot to death Monday, broadcasting his own killing on Facebook, according to a new report. Authorities put a nearby elementary school and a university on lockdown after the deadly attack Monday around 10 a.m. local time.

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Man gunned down while recording Facebook Live video near NC college campus

A man was shot dead Monday while recording a Facebook Live video near Wingate University's campus in North Carolina. The victim — identified by authorities and relatives as Prentis Robinson — was broadcasting with the use of a selfie stick when a man attacked him, firing four shots. Minutes before ...

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Man Live-Streamed His Own Murder on Facebook, Police Say

A North Carolina man filmed his own death while broadcasting on Facebook Live Monday near Wingate University, outside Charlotte, according to local media. The victim was walking near campus filming himself from a smartphone on a selfie stick when he was approached by another man, according ...

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Facebook apologizes for promoting a VR shooting game at CPAC

Facebook has apologized for showing a demo of Oculus Rift shooter Bullet Train at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a week after 17 students were killed in a Florida school shooting. In a statement, Facebook VP of virtual reality Hugo Barra said that the demo was part of “a standard set of ...

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Man Shot Dead While Filming Facebook Live Video

In May 2017, after a string of violent and viral Facebook Live videos, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would be doubling down on its efforts to monitor Live content. This included hiring another 3,000 contractors — on top of an existing 4,500 — to watch for things like suicide, murder, and ...

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Google and Facebook Need Advertising 'Moonshots'

The Alphabet Inc. unit and Facebook Inc. pulled in a combined $114 billion in revenue from advertisements in 2017, excluding the money that Google turns over to partners such as Apple. That means more than one out of every five dollars in the $500 billion global advertising market goes to Google and ...

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Facebook settles lawsuit over 2012 IPO for $35 million

Shareholders led by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association in California accused Facebook of concealing internal concerns about how growth in mobile devices might reduce revenue, even as it quietly warned its banks to cut their forecasts.

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Dance musicians caught sharing degrading photos of women in secret Facebook group Tracks ...

Australian dance musicians and insiders have been implicated in a secret Facebook group where they shared sexually explicit photos and videos of women without their consent. The ABC has spoken to former members of the secret, male-only group called Tracks and Snatch, which existed for about ...

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CNN's Jeff Zucker calls Google and Facebook "monopolies"

CNN President Jeff Zucker is calling for greater government oversight of Google (GOOG) and Facebook (FB), calling the internet giants "monopolies." "Everyone is looking at whether these combinations of AT&T and Time Warner or Fox and Disney pass government approval and muster, the fact is ...

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This man streams his own murder on Facebook in North Carolina town

A man was shot and killed in Wingate on Monday – and it was caught on Facebook Live, officials confirmed to the Observer. The man was identified as Prentis Robinson by the Union County Sheriff's Office. The shooting sent Wingate University into a lockdown, though the shooting was off campus on ...

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Facebook fixates on connecting the next billion

But that will still leave half the world living without internet. Facebook wants to bring those people online. They're all potential Facebook users, after all. But doing so requires Facebook to work with many companies and create multiple ways to tackle problems such as network coverage and affordability.

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Facebook to Pay $35 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over IPO

Facebook didn't admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement, which was made public in a court filing Monday. The lead plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit -- public pensions for Arkansas teachers and for workers in Fresno, California -- asked U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan to approve the ...

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Facebook bug reveals identity of page admin via email

A Mexican security researcher recently wrote up a Facebook bug he claims he found in just 2'18”. Mohamed Baset spotted that autogenerated emails sent on behalf of a named Facebook page revealed more about the accounts behind the page than you'd expect. This wasn't exactly a show-stopping ...

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German Prosecutors Drop Case Against Facebook In Hate Speech Probe

Berlin: German prosecutors said Monday they were dropping a probe into whether Facebook bosses including Mark Zuckerberg were condoning hate ... Concern has risen in Germany over the vitriolic comments made by some Facebook and Twitter users, which gained intensity as public misgivings ...

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A Foolish Take: Teens Will Keep Leaving Facebook

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) hasn't grown its 12- to 17-year-old user base in the U.S. since 2015, according to eMarketer. The firm believes that ... Last August, eMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson said, "Facebook is fortunate that it owns Instagram, which remains a strong platform for teens." Williamson ...

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A Foolish Take: Teens Will Keep Leaving Facebook

Facebook is struggling to retain teen users as more adults -- many of them the parents of those teens -- sign up. Adults have higher spending power, which gives Facebook more clout with advertisers. But the loss of teen users has sent brands focused on younger users toward other platforms. However ...

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Facebook apologizes over “Bullet Train” VR demo at right-wing conference

Sean Morrow, a producer for Now This News, noted the presence of the "VR shooting game" at Facebook's CPAC booth in a widely circulated tweet late Friday. Within hours of the tweet, Facebook had responded by removing the demo from the conference floor. "There is a standard set of experiences ...

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Facebook Messenger: Here's How to Block and Unblock Someone

Have you ever wanted to stop someone from being able to contact you on Facebook Messenger? Our guide will show you how to block messages from the user within the Messenger application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Messenger app on iOS. Also note, blocking messages from ...

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Is Facebook At A Tipping Point?

While we have no indication that such a trend change from Facebook's stock price, nevertheless there are several indications of red flags. ... The interesting thing about this survey is that, lower user engagement was not a result of brands and publishers spending less money on Facebook promotion.

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An ISIS recruiter who tried to radicalise strangers over Facebook is in prison after someone sent ...

They forwarded it to London's Metropolitan Police, who investigated and found that he had sent thousands more messages using services like WhatsApp and Telegram as well as Facebook. They also found ISIS propaganda on his devices. Hussain was arrested last June, and has since been found ...

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Facebook & Google: An 'Irrational' Price for Growth

The market is “irrational” when it comes to valuing expected growth at Facebook and Google when compared with other large U.S. listed companies, new research argues. • In a Sunday note, KeyBanc Capital Markets analysts said when compared Barron's Next 50 components Facebook (FB) and ...

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He fooled an entire nation with a fake Facebook profile. Then I tracked him down.

In 2013, a Facebook profile popped up with the name Alexander Nikolov. From there, his social media accounts skyrocketed in popularity in Bulgaria, according to multiple people who first followed him on Twitter and then befriended him on Facebook. In the years that followed, Vasilev would download ...

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Kylie Jenner Earned Facebook $13 Billion In One Day

Last week Jenner publicly disparaged Snapchat's redesign on Twitter, claiming she doesn't even want to open the app in the wake of the changes. Her musings saw Snapchat's shares plummet by 7.2 percent, whereas Facebook, which also owns Instagram, saw its value increase by $13 billion in one ...

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Why You Need to Stop Worrying About Facebook 'Likes' in 2018

You cannot take Facebook likes to the bank. I've built more than eight businesses over the last fifteen years. Some have succeeded whereas others did not, but they all involved building an online platform in some form. As such, content marketing and online advertising have played a large role ...

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Seychelle Media is Selected for Facebook Messenger Case Study

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital marketing innovator Seychelle Media has already earned the confidence of Facebook, Inc., qualifying Seychelle Media as a respected Facebook Agency Partner. Now the team at Seychelle Media, recognized for its skilled and ...

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Mark Zuckerberg has sold $357 million of stock this month, part of plans to unload up to $12 billion

Mark Zuckerberg has sold $356.8 million worth of Facebook shares this month, ramping up his regularly-timed stock selling to fund his philanthropic efforts. The company CEO and founder has executed seven separate sales transactions in February, according to his latest securities filings. Zuckerberg ...

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German prosecutors say won't investigate Facebook over hate postings

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German prosecutors said on Monday they would not open a formal investigation of Facebook managers including Mark ... German attorney Chan-jo Jun had filed a complaint with prosecutors in Munich in 2016 and demanded that Facebook executives be compelled to comply ...

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Vero: How to use the new app that combines Instagram, Facebook and more

It's taking on the Facebook-owned app with a range of different features, including a chronological timeline and no ads. But for now it's just yet another social media platform, albeit one that's getting a huge amount of hype. Even though it aims to set itself against Instagram, it's worth thinking about it much ...

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Facebook message leads to 7-year terrorism sentence

LONDON (AP) — A London man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for terrorism offenses after an investigation that started with a complaint about a Facebook message. Mohammed Kamal Hussain was sentenced in Kingston Crown Court Monday after being found guilty of encouraging ...

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Facebook says it has no interest in monetizing the Telecom Infra Project

Facebook, the social network giant with over 2 billion monthly users, has made a big effort to expand its business by doubling down on one of the big bottlenecks in the world of data: expensive and bad connectivity. And today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company unveiled a slate of ...

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2018 Will See Continued Decline in Facebook Use Among Teens

Is Facebook losing its cool factor? That seems to be the sad truth as the social media giant lost around 2.8 million young users last year. eMarketer's 2017 forecast stated that for the first time ever, Facebook would see a drop in users. The research firm estimated that there would be a 3.4 percent drop in ...

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Vero has one key feature that's missing from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Instagram and Facebook both show posts they think you will like at the top of your feed, rather than organising them chronologically. Snapchat recently introduced a similar mechanism in its controversial update whilst Twitter does the same, although its feed is closer to chronological than its competitors.

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Facebook has big plans to bring internet to more people in rural areas

Over the past few years, Facebook has been rolling out several initiatives to bring free internet to people in underdeveloped areas all around the world. That includes things like Terragraph, a millimeter-wave wireless technology that not only serves connectivity but does so in speedy form -- it runs on the ...

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Facebook's Flick Is Fast. Here's Why You Should Care.

In January, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced that it had finished developing a new product. It wasn't a new social network, nor was it a new feature on any of its existing services. In fact, this new "product" was a departure from anything the company had done before: a new unit of time called the "flick.

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Snapchat's rise from obscure app to Facebook rival charted in How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars

Snapchat is the great dividing line in the social media ecosystem: the old, with their fuddy-duddy Facebook, don't understand it and do not use it; the young, with their selfies and sexting, have taken to it with alacrity, their daily usage figures far exceeding that of any other app.

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MWC: Facebook announces new networking partnerships to bring more people online

On Monday, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Facebook announced new partner projects related to two of its next-generation wireless initiatives—Terragraph and OpenCellular, according to a blog post. The Telecom Infra Project (TIP)—a joint initiative started by Facebook and various ...

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Facebook, Telecom Infra launch new web connectivity projects worldwide

At Mobile World Congress currently underway in Barcelona, Spain, Facebook said the new initiatives, launched with the assistance of industry partners Deutsche Telekom, Magyar Telekom, Telenor, and others, will "upgrade existing networks for the future, build new networks in under-connected regions ...

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Facebook yanks violent Epic Games virtual reality video – but you can still watch it

To cap the killing spree, the bullet-filled virtual reality demo video from Cary-based Epic Games shows the player taking out a drone. Facebook made the video part of its Oculus Rift virtual reality demo at the conservative group Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on Friday – and ...

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How people are using Facebook's 'crisis response' to offer help after Leicester explosion

Facebook has activated its crisis response function in the wake of last night's fatal explosion. This allows users in the area to let friends and family know they are safe after the blast, which has claimed at least four lives. Residents living near to the incident, in Hinckley Road, also used the Facebook page ...

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Facebook makes it impossible to truly leave

Every time, Facebook would address me by my first name, like a concerned mentor, often from different eight-digit numbers, sometimes multiple times per day. Even when I was out of the country, in a wildly different timezone, Facebook found a way to optimize those texts to send during daylight hours.

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Australia launches inquiry into how Facebook, Google impact news media

Facebook and Google have been criticized for profiting from content produced by traditional media companies, which have been hit by falling revenue and a drop in advertising in recent years as consumers switched to digital media. The tech giants have also faced increasing scrutiny and from European ...

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ACCC muscles up to Facebook

Australia's competition and consumer watchdog will use its compulsory information gathering powers to obtain data from tech giants including Google and Facebook as part of its wide-ranging “world-first” inquiry into news and digital platforms. The ACCC will consider direct regulatory intervention and ...

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Facebook and Google aren't free, ACCC chairman Rod Sims says

“We will continue to work with Australia's publishers so we can deliver value to them, help them monetise their content, and help them connect to their audience on Facebook.” A Google spokesman would only say it “look forward to engaging with this process as relevant”. News Corp Australasia, which ...

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Facebook Holds Off On Bullet Train Demo After School Shooter Backlash

In a move that probably shouldn't surprise anyone, Facebook has decided to reel back on releasing a demo of their VR game Bullet Train after the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The company removed the demo from Oculus Rift stations set up for the Conservative Political Action ...

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Facebook moves step closer to 700000 sq ft Ballsbridge campus

Facebook is aiming to secure 700,000 sq ft of office space for its new Ballsbridge campus, considerably more than once thought. Rumours surrounding Facebook's plan to expand its office space in Dublin once again reached fever pitch earlier this month after it was found the company was looking to ...

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KaiOS, a feature phone platform built on the ashes of Firefox OS, adds Facebook, Twitter and ...

Quietly, a company called KaiOS, built on a fork of Firefox OS, launched a new version of the OS built specifically for feature phones, and today at MWC in Barcelona the company announced a new wave of milestones around the effort that includes access to apps from Facebook, Twitter and Google in ...

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Animal shelter lacks Facebook page, an easy avenue to showcase pets

More and more activity is taking place at the Killeen Animal Shelter thanks to efforts by the Killeen Animal Alliance and animal advocates in the area. The shelter is still lacking in one area, however: Neither the shelter nor the Killeen Animal Services Department has a dedicated Facebook page.

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Facebook set to overtake YouTube for mobile video

According to the latest findings from its Mobile Video Index (MVI) from mobile video traffic management solutions specialist Openwave Mobility, while YouTube remains the most popular for mobile video, Facebook is rapidly closing the gap in some markets – and has even overtaken YouTube in others.

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Facebook user fined RM4,000 over offensive post on Najib

KUALA LUMPUR: A social media user was fined RM4,000 by the Sessions Court here for insulting Prime Minister Najib Razak with vulgar words in a Facebook post two years ago. Judge Zaman Mohd Noor handed the sentence to former crane operator Muhammad Amirul Helmy Hisham after he ...

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HC asks Facebook, YouTube to block links showing Lay's in bad light

Mumbai: In a temporary relief to PepsiCo India, the Delhi high court has directed social media network Facebook and Google-owned video sharing website YouTube to block URLs and weblinks of videos that are putting the Indian arm of the food and beverage major's product Lay's in a bad light, until ...

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Facebook recruits Nokia to trial and standardise Terragraph wireless tech

Facebook hopes to get parts of its Terragraph wireless comms platform standardised by the IEEE, and has recruited Nokia to help. Terragraph is a big part of Facebook's plan to connect the “next four billion” to Facebook the Internet using the 60 GHz band. First announced in April 2016, the Terragraph ...

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Police move to stop criminals using Facebook buy and sell pages

Everything from stolen cigarettes and repackaged illegal meat to drug deals are being traded on both open and member-only Facebook pages. Police say some criminals are using their children's Facebook profiles to hide their identities, while others use pseudonyms and gang names. Users post a ...

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Chris Hughes Made Millions at Facebook. Now He Has a Plan to End Poverty.

As he relates in his new book, “Fair Shot,” he co-founded Facebook, asked his roommate Mark Zuckerberg for 10 percent of the company, received 2 percent instead and became dynastically wealthy as a result. Hughes is acutely aware of how unfair this is. “Most Americans cannot find $400 in the case ...

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ACCC will have power to grill Google and Facebook on threat to news media

The competition regulator will have the power to compel Google and Facebook to answer wide-ranging questions about their use of personal data and the cost to news media of their dominance of Australian advertising dollars. The chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, ...

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Neil Young blasts Google for 'building their wealth on music's back'

“Today, in the age of Facebook, Google and Amazon, it's hard to tell how a new and growing musical artist could make it in the way we did,” Young wrote in a post published by Neil Young Archives. “The Tech Giants have figured out a way to use all the great music of everyone from all time, without ...

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Scammers target New Zealand Facebook trading groups

Facebook has joined the likes of Trade Me and eBay as a massive online trading hub. And with no membership costs or success fees, the social media giant is proving a cheap and popular alternative to existing platforms. Tens of thousands of Kiwis are joining buy, sell and trade pages on Facebook ...

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Don't blame it on Facebook: The reasons why you will lose social media followers in 2018

Facebook's recent changes aren't the only hit brands will take this year. Changes in socials and customer behaviour means brand pages will begin to hemorrhage audience members if they don't start to adapt. The first quarter opens the floodgates for new gym memberships, refreshed wardrobes and of ...

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Tila Tequila labels bikini-clad Kim Kardashian a 'whore' in emotional Facebook rant

Former reality TV star and self-confessed neo-Nazi Tila Tequila has gone on a vile Facebook rant, accusing Kim Kardashian of acting like "a whore" for posting "provocative photos" of herself on social media. The Shot at Love star, 35, becamse famous after participating in a bisexual reality show with 16 ...

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Inquiry finds children being pushed to brink by social media bullying; tech giants doing little

In evidence to the inquiry, Facebook said it focused on anti-bullying measures and takes extra precautions for teenagers. “For example, our anti-bullying policy makes clear we remove content that appears to purposefully target private individuals with the intention of degrading or shaming them,” the ...

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Facebook sorry for gaffe over shooting game

Facebook has apologised for promoting a virtual-reality shooting game at a rightwing event in the US days after fifteen pupils and two teachers were shot dead in a Florida school. The social media and publishing giant exhibited at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington alongside ...

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Facebook Live Magic Button

Facebook Live is simple to broadcast from a mobile device. ... There are two main ways to start a Facebook Live stream from a computer. ... Thankfully, Ian Anderson Gray has not only made an incredible tutorial for going live on Facebook, he's also created a wonderful button that uses the Facebook API ...

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What is Vero? The Anti-Facebook App Sees an Adoption Bloom

Adoption of a new mobile social platform seemed to bloom over the weekend. Vero, whose tag line is “less social media, more social life,” saw version 1.0 of the app hit the Apple App Store on April 30 of last year, but experienced a surge in sign-ups over the weekend that caused its UK-based servers to ...

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'Appreciate all the positive messages': Florida school shooter's brother 'posts thank you message ...

A Facebook account appearing to belong to the brother of Florida high school shooter Nikolas Cruz has posted a thank you message. The post made by the account under the name of 'Zachary Cruz,' has led to speculation that the 18-year-old has broken his silence, following his 19-year-old brother's ...

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Page admins bear brunt of security on Facebook sales groups

Facebook has quickly joined the likes of Trade Me and eBay as a massive online trading hub. And with no membership costs or success fees, the social media giant is proving a cheap and popular alternative to existing platforms. Tens of thousands of Kiwis are joining buy, sell and trade pages on ...

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ACCC to probe how Facebook, Google hurt quality journalism

The competition regulator will examine the impact of Facebook and Google vacuuming up advertising dollars on access to quality news, as the Silicon Valley giants benefit from content made by traditional media companies with falling revenue. In a broad-ranging inquiry into the impact of digital ...

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Protect the News From Google and Facebook

The news business is suffering, but not because people don't want news. They do—more than ever. The problem is that the money generated by news audiences flows mostly to Google and Facebook , not to the reporters and publishers who produce excellent journalism. The Duopoly now captures ...

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Facebook, Google to be probed over role in creating 'filter bubbles'

Facebook and Google's role in creating "filter bubbles" online, by using algorithms to show people content that aligns with their views, is under scrutiny as part of a wide-reaching probe into the digital giants. Digital companies and publishers are able to have their say on the issues raised in a paper ...

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Facebook co-founder wants to pay it forward

NEW YORK • Chris Hughes, 34, a co-founder of Facebook, was raised by Lutheran parents in Hickory, North Carolina and they taught him, by example, to tithe. Every year, they gave 10 per cent of their income to the church and other local charities and he carried that tradition into adulthood. However, in ...

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Facebook should have to pay a fine if it can't get rid of bots, Democratic senator says

Bots on Facebook are like “toxic waste” being dumped into the environment, Sen. Amy Klobuchar says, and the platforms should be fined if they can't clean it up. Appearing on NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the senior U.S. senator from Minnesota said Congress should act if Facebook and Twitter ...

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Facebook vs face-to-face — the ways pollies aim to win you over

Jump to 2018, and campaigning has well and truly extended to the online world, through unsolicited Facebook messages, memes, Instagram stories, fake accounts and even Snapchat filters. Candidate selfies out on the hustings are almost compulsory. But what is the most effective way to get your vote ...

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Despite The Headlines, Facebook Numbers Moving In The Right Direction

Facebook (FB), the social media and networking giant, had a tough 2017 getting bombarded from all angles for publishing many "fake news" stories, not to mention fostering or abetting Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election campaign, to shoddy editing and then the rumors started about ...

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Telefonica launches Aura digital assistant, teams up with Facebook, Google

At a conference held on the eve of MWC 2018, the company announced that it will be delivering the so-called 'fourth platform' via a mobile application, but also via other third-party channels including Facebook, Google and Microsoft. The system, which is available in Spain, Germany, the UK, Brazil, ...

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Local Firefighters Help Michigan Woman After Emergency Facebook Message

BOSTON (CBS) — Local fire departments are reminding everyone in an emergency to call 911 after Wayland firefighters successfully helped a woman in Michigan because she messaged their Facebook page. The woman “said she needed help because her son was choking and she didn't have a ...

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With One Tweet, Kylie Jenner May Have Made Facebook's Stock Rise

Kylie Jenner, famous for being the sister of someone famous for being famous, proved that with a few taps at her phone she could seriously shake up the tech world. On Wednesday, she tweeted that she barely uses Snapchat, presumably in the wake of its poorly-received redesign. And the next day, the ...

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Jon Venables identity leaks will be 'quickly removed' by Facebook as cops launch new probe

Prisoners are being sent pictures of Venables and information about his new identity via mobile phones in jail, a source told Daily Star Online. In a statement, Facebook said failing to comply with “local law” – in this case trying to breach Venables' anonymity order – is against its community standards.

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Tila Tequila Calls Kim Kardashian A 'Whore' For Taking Sexy Selfies — Read Her Whole Rant

Tila Tequila, 36, took the time to shade Kim Kardashian, 37, and other women who dress like her in a long emotionally-fueled Facebook rant on Feb. 24 and it was quite harsh! The television personality posted two photos of Kim walking on the beach in a bikini and accompanied it with some religious ...

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Nokia, Facebook partner on developing fixed-wireless services in 60 GHz band

Nokia announced a partnership with Facebook to develop fixed-wireless broadband services in the 60 GHz band. Aimed at urban and suburban areas as a complement to fibre, the partnership will bring together Nokia's wireless passive optical network (WPON) platform with Facebook's Terragraph ...

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The power of prayer (and Facebook)

Lindsay appealed on the Old Town Facebook group and by the power of social media and no doubt, a few prayers, Mr Small was rightly reunited with his Bible thanks to Mark Ferris who found it blown when it blew over a fence in Victoria Drive. Lindsay wrote, “Thank you so much Mark and thanks to the ...

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I have no Facebook account: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says he does not have a Facebook account. "I am noticing for some days, some people have opened fake Facebook accounts in my name and posting and commenting from those accounts,” he said in a press statement today. "In reality, I did not open ...

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Facebook considers AIB's HQ as campus for 5000 workers

Social media group Facebook is considering building more than 700,000 sq ft of offices that could house 5,000 workers at a high-profile Dublin site, the Sunday Business Post reported. The US multi-national was recently said to be looking at taking 450,000 sq ft at the AIB Bank Centre in Ballsbridge, ...

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Hey Facebook, YouTube and Twitter: It's time to clarify what gets you banned — then actually ...

There are basic questions at play here that consumers should be asking: What do these sites believe in? Do they have values? How are Twitter's rules, Facebook's policies and YouTube's community guidelines informed by these values? Are those rules actually enforced the same way for everyone?

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Forget the Nokia 3310 - Nokia 8110 is back with 4G, Facebook and Matrix slider

The 8110, which was nicknamed the "banana phone" due to its curved shape, was a huge hit in the 90s with it immortalised in the classic Matrix movies - but don't think for one minute this new device is stuck in the past. With a new yellow colour scheme, 4G download speeds and access to Facebook, ...

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Facebook Could Be Preparing to Enter the Streaming Music Market

It's possible Facebook might simply want to integrate free streaming music into its apps. If that's the case, Facebook might expect to offset the royalty fees with ad revenue. But as Pandora's lack of profitability demonstrates, an ad-based strategy is far less sustainable than a subscription-based one.

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Silicon Valley is so expensive that even Facebook and Apple employees can't afford to live near ...

A new report from Open Listings reveals that workers at five major tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, and Google, would have to spend over 28% of their salary to pay a monthly mortgage on a home near work. Software engineers at Apple have it worst. They would have to pay an average of ...

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Google, Facebook in sights of ACCC for harvesting users' personal data

While Google and Facebook's embroilment in the 2016 US presidential election and mounting concerns about the spread of “fake news” has put them under growing pressure, Mr Sims' inquiry will be the first in the world to scrutinise their impact on journalism and potential abuses of market power.

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Google, Facebook in sights of ACCC

Other potential consequences include increased information about “competition, pricing and other practices in the supply of online news and journalistic content and advertising services to Australian consumers” in what would be an unprecedented move in light of Google and Facebook's secretive ...

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Facebook Pulls VR Shooter Demo After Political Backlash

In light of recent events in Parkland, FL, Facebook has decided to remove its Bullet Train VR demo from Oculus Rift demo stations. The Bullet Train demo was shown at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this week, along with other VR demos, but due to the timing of the conference and ...

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Man records on Facebook as he crashes car into hospital, sets himself on fire

The man, identified by officials as 27-year-old Steven Ellam, used Facebook Live to broadcast the crash. Right before the crash, he referred to himself as Jesus Christ, saying that he was protecting the Illuminati and the “one percent.” Police, fire crews, the FBI, the State Fire Marshall, ATF and the ...

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Please help me remove this bogus Facebook 'tribute' page

Further complicating your case is the fact that you don't have your own Facebook account. The company assumes that if you have a problem with Facebook, you also have a Facebook account. But that's not a valid assumption. In fact, I can think of many instances when someone might have a problem ...

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Benna butter post churns out Facebook reactions

A battle over butter spread onto Facebook on Sunday morning, with local dairy producers Benna batting away a suggestion that their "100% Maltese" butter was not what it claimed to be. The original post which kicked off the controversy. Image: Facebook/Antoinette Stellini Farrugia. The controversy was ...

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"Nokia, Facebook Team on 60 GHz Fixed Wireless"

ESPOO, Finland -- Nokia and Facebook are working to accelerate the adoption of 60 GHz fixed wireless access technologies to deliver gigabit services and connect more people, faster. The 60 GHz band allows high-speed broadband connectivity in urban or suburban areas, complementing existing ...

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Facebook plans huge campus at Ballsbridge AIB site

Facebook plans huge campus at Ballsbridge AIB site. Tom Lyons. By Tom Lyons Feb 25, 2018. Share this article: Facebook plans huge campus at Ballsbridge AIB site. Facebook's creation of a new campus in Dublin 4 will, when it is completed, be twice the size of Microsoft's enormous new campus in ...

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Nokia and Facebook work together to expand ecosystem for Fixed Wireless Access over 60 GHz

Espoo, Finland - Nokia and Facebook are working to accelerate the adoption of 60 GHz fixed wireless access technologies to deliver gigabit services and connect more people, faster. The 60 GHz band allows high-speed broadband connectivity in urban or suburban areas, complementing existing fiber.

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Martin Lewis in scam warning to fans - as Facebook adverts use HIS name to con people into ...

He has been forced to take on Facebook after the fraudsters used the social media giant to set up a “worrying new” sting - taking the total number of attempted scams using his name to 20. In the latest, fake posts sent out on Facebook Messenger claiming to be from Martin that use his profile picture have ...

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Facebook pulls gun game from conservative gathering

San Francisco – Facebook pulled a virtual reality gun game from a major US conservative political gathering on Friday, saying the demo was a mistake given the recent deadly school shooting in Florida. "We removed the demo and regret failing to do so at the start," Facebook virtual reality vice president ...

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Fakhrul: Fake Facebook accounts using my name are spreading rumours

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said some people have opened fake accounts under his name on the social networking site Facebook and are sharing comments that he did not make. He said the above in a press release that was issued from the BNP office on Sunday morning.

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How to check if someone blocked you on Facebook

Have you been blocked on Facebook? Well, you will definitely not be notified when this happens. Right to block someone is one of the best tools available to an individual on the social platform. There are ways to determine if someone has blocked you on Facebook but unfortunately, there's no way to fix ...

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Amid Snapchat Plummet, Facebook Up By Billions

In the same amount of time it took Snapchat to lose that amount of money, Facebook reeled in a $13 billion increase, going from a market value of $516.83 billion to $532.86 billion. These wins and losses have continuously been traced back to Kylie Jenner as they both coincide with a tweet that Jenner ...

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