Facebook: Business Issues

Facebook says ‘tens of thousands’ of people opt in to take its user surveys every week

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In a blog post explaining ways in which it collects user feedback, Facebook says that tens of thousands of its users opt in to take the company’s user research surveys every week on the platform. The responses to surveys are among the feedback methods that inform company decisions around product updates and ranking algorithms. According […]

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Facebook’s automated systems to monitor political advertisers are blocking the wrong ads

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Since the advent of the ad and data-related scandals plaguing Facebook — including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the emergence of evidence that Russia used the app to interfere in 2016 elections — the company has made sizable efforts to curb malicious content and misinformation this year. As part of its work in this area, the

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Instagram signs on to the time well spent movement with new ‘You’re all caught up’ notifications

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making good on his assurance that he wants to be part of the time well spent movement, but instead of starting with Facebook, the company is bringing its first official time-well-spent feature to Instagram, a Facebook-owned app. Starting today, Instagram users will see a “You’re all caught up” message to

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Facebook reminds developers deadline for app reviews is less than a month away

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Facebook is reminding developers that in order to keep access to a number of APIs, the app review deadline is August 1. Developers wanting to retain their access to any of the following APIs for existing apps will need to submit their apps for review and “re-request” permission to use the APIs: Facebook Login outside

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Facebook alerts 800K users that people they’d blocked may have been unblocked the 1st week of June

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For the second time in less than a month, Facebook is having to alert users that their accounts may have been negatively impacted because of a bug. According to an announcement on Facebook’s news blog, the company is notifying 800,000 Facebook and Messenger users that people they blocked may have been unblocked between May 29

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Apps must now pass review process before getting access to Facebook’s Marketing API

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Facebook announced a new list of updates to its app development platform today, a regular occurrence since the company suspended Cambridge Analytica for using an app to exploit and harvest user data. Per today’s announcement, apps now must undergo a new review process before getting access to Facebook’s Marketing API, the tool that allows developers

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Facebook’s latest data faux pas: app analytics reports sent to the wrong people

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Facebook’s data security issues have turned into a nonstop game of whack-a-mole. After having to alert 14 million users that their privacy settings had been switched to public because of a bug earlier this month, Facebook confirms it sent app analytics reports to people outside of the intended app development companies. “This week, an alarmed

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Facebook takes fight against fake news to more countries & ups machine learning efforts around bad actors

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Facebook is continuing its efforts to fight fake news and stop the spread of false information on the platform. Today, the company announced a number of new initiatives to reduce activity by bad actors on the site, from expanding its fact-checking operations to more countries to using machine learning to find foreign Pages that share

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Facebook’s head of communications & public policy is leaving the company

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Facebook’s head of communication and policy, Elliot Schrage, is resigning after leading the company’s communications and policy teams for the past decade. According to a Facebook post on Schrage’s public page, he says it’s time for him to start a new chapter: As our community and global impact expanded, our challenge to strike a healthy

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Facebook updates Custom Audience list requirements to create more ad transparency

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Facebook is making changes to the way advertisers manage their Custom Audience lists to give users more transparency about why they see the ads that are displayed in their News Feed. Beginning July 2, advertisers will have to specify the origin of the audience’s information when uploading a Custom Audience list (the contact lists advertisers

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