Facebook: Business Issues

Facebook impervious to scandal as Q1 results of $12 billion easily beat expectations

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Facebook announced first quarter revenues of $11.97 billion, which easily beat Wall Street consensus estimates. The company managed to post growth in all key metrics, despite the ongoing data scandals that have dogged it in recent months. Marketers spent $11.8 billion on ads on Facebook, which was up a whopping 50 percent vs. a year ago. […]

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Facebook now letting users appeal posts that were removed for violating content standards

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For the first time ever, Facebook has released the guidelines its internal content review teams use to determine whether or not to remove a post for breaking community standards. Not only is the site offering a window into how it decides what stays up and what gets removed, Facebook is opening an appeals process for

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Facebook reopens review process for Instant Games & Messenger apps

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After hitting the pause button on app reviews following the Cambridge Analytica firestorm, Facebook has announced that it is reopening the review process for Instant Games and Messenger apps. Reviews for Instant Games apps will open immediately, reports Facebook, although the company notes it may take several weeks for it to get through the apps

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Facebook & Cambridge Analytica: What we know, what they knew & where that leaves us

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Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spent nearly five hours yesterday answering questions from over 40 members of the US Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees. This appearance, and another one today with the US House Energy and Commerce Committee comes five months after Congress first grilled the lawyers of Facebook, Google and Twitter on the

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Facebook announces election-based independent research initiative as part of its continuing hearts and minds campaign

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Today, Facebook announced it had initiated a new independent research project seeking to determine social media’s impact on elections. The project is funded by a seven different foundations — including the Democracy Fund, the Charles Koch Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Facebook says it does not have the right to review or approve

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Facebook & Instagram ads granted accreditation by the Media Rating Council

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After more than a year of audits by the Media Rating Council (MRC), Facebook has been granted accreditation for ads on both its platform and Instagram. According to a release from the MRC, the accreditation applies to ad impressions for both Facebook and Instagram’s desktop and mobile web sites, and mobile apps. “We recognized the

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Facebook is now giving users the option to remove apps in bulk

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Facebook has rolled out a new option that allows users to remove apps in bulk from their profile settings. The new feature, which is accessible on mobile and desktop, will not only remove the apps but also will offer the option to delete any posts the individual apps have made to a user’s profile, TechCrunch

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Facebook updates terms and data collection policy to be more ‘clear’

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Facebook is updating and changing its terms of service and data policy. This is part of a multi-pronged effort to make the company’s privacy policies and tools more accessible and easier to use. The company says it’s trying to make things “clearer” and that it’s not asking for “new rights to collect, use or share

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Facebook now displaying related stories & share info for articles as part of ongoing News Feed test

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Facebook is expanding a News Feed test it launched last year that aims to help users determine the integrity of news items posted on the platform. Originally, the test included an “i” button added to news headline links that, when clicked, displayed more information about the article and the publisher that ran it. Now, in

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Facebook’s new Custom Audiences permission tool will require user consent confirmation

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Facebook has confirmed a TechCrunch report that it is developing a tool for advertisers to verify they have gained consent to use email addresses uploaded via Custom Audiences. Facebook’s Custom Audiences make it possible for advertisers to target users on its platform by uploading lists of emails, phone numbers and other data and cross-referencing it

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