Facebook: Business Issues

Facebook advertisers can now manage where Instant Article, in-stream video ads appear

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Facebook is extending its placement reporting to Instant Articles and in-stream video so advertisers can preemptively block publishers from their campaigns and continually update those exclusion lists based on where their ads run. Advertisers will be able to review the list of publishers monetizing content via Instant Articles and in-stream videos before running a campaign, […]

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Facebook, Twitter grilled by Senate committee; Dorsey says company may label bots

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via C-SPAN Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday appeared before a Senate committee to face questions over their companies’ failure to keep bad actors off of their platforms, allegations of bias against conservative content, and what they’re in fact doing to address lawmakers’ concerns. Google, which was also asked to testify, chose not

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Instagram fights back against fake accounts & bad actors with new safety tools

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After last week’s announcement that 652 Pages, accounts and groups had been removed from Facebook and Instagram, Facebook’s less popular (but quickly growing) app is now getting its own set of safety tools. In the coming weeks, Instagram will be rolling out three new security measures designed to safeguard itself against fake accounts and create

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Facebook recruits former HP marketing lead as its new CMO

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Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox with the company’s new CMO, Antonio Lucio Since Facebook CMO Gary Briggs announced his plans to retire all the way back in January, the company has finally found a new marketing veteran to replace him. Antonio Lucio — the former CMO for Hewlett-Packard — will take over the role

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Facebook, Twitter & Google take down malicious content originating from Iran

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Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s security teams are staying busy. All three companies reported this week that they had removed malicious items from their platforms that had originated in Iran — Facebook took down 652 Pages, groups and accounts, Twitter removed 284 accounts and Google disabled a total 42 YouTube channels, 16 Google+ accounts, six Blogger

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Facebook removes 5K ad targeting filters to keep advertisers from discriminating against ethnic & religious groups

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Facebook is continuing the push to make its platform safer for users, this time removing more than 5,000 ad targeting filters from its system to keep advertisers from discriminating against ethnic or religious groups. This latest move aims to prohibit advertisers from using filters for housing, employment or credit-related campaigns that could potentially keep ads

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Facebook’s content review policy: How it works, the teams & tech behind the reviews & the results so far

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Last week, Facebook announced it had removed 32 Pages and accounts from its platform and Instagram for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” — a term used by Facebook to define efforts by a network of accounts aiming to spread malicious content. The bad actors behind the misinformation campaigns included eight Facebook Pages, 17 Facebook accounts and seven

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Twitter loses ability to let users auto-post tweets & retweets to Facebook

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Quka / Shutterstock.com Yesterday, Facebook announced it had deprecated its Publish actions permissions from its API, a feature that made it possible for apps to publish posts to Facebook as the logged-in user. According to Facebook, it expects that roughly 60,000 apps will be impacted — one of which is Twitter. Twitter’s support team tweeted

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Facebook cuts off access to API platform for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive apps

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Rokas Tenys / Shutterstock.com Facebook reports it has cut off access to its API platform for hundreds of thousands of inactive apps that were not submitted for review by the August 1 deadline. App developers received a reminder last month that any apps using the following APIs had until August 1 to resubmit their app

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As Facebook user and revenue growth slows in Q2, advertisers are still on board

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It’s been a bruising year for Facebook public relations. Now, its second quarter earnings report of 2018, released on Wednesday, showed slowing user and revenue growth and lower-than-expected revenue and earnings. Wall Street wasn’t pleased and was somehow surprised by the numbers despite the company’s guidance. As often happens, Wall Street and advertisers are operating

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