[ad_1] Facebook could make a major change to its advertising policies in an effort to fight election-related misinformation. The social network is considering a ban on political advertising in the U.S. in the days before the 2020 election, Bloomberg reports. Unlike Twitter, which banned political ads entirely last year, Facebook’s plan would only limit ads […]
Category: Social Media
Instagram expands policy banning promotion of conversion therapy
[ad_1] A company spokesperson confirmed the new rules to Engadget, and said that while the company won’t be banning specific organizations, it will remove posts that break its rules and that repeat offenders could have their accounts disabled. “We don’t allow attacks against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity and are updating our […]
Businesses on WhatsApp can share their info with QR codes
[ad_1] Businesses on WhatsApp can now take advantage of the app’s QR code feature to make it easier for customers to message them. A week after introducing a similar feature for WhatsApp users looking to share contact information, the app is making QR codes available to businesses as well. Previously, users wishing to contact a […]
Facebook takes down fake accounts linked to Trump advisor Roger Stone
[ad_1] The accounts spent more than $300,000 in Facebook and Instagram ads and had amassed 260,000 followers on Facebook and 61,500 on Instagram. “The people behind this activity used fake accounts … to pose as residents of Florida, post and comment on their own content to make it appear more popular than it is, evade […]
Ad boycott leaders say meeting with Zuckerberg was ‘a disappointment’
[ad_1] .@JGo4Justice: “Instead of committing to a timeline to root out hate and disinformation on Facebook, the company’s leaders delivered the same old talking points to try to placate us without meeting our demands.” 2/ #StopHateForProfit #ChangeTheTerms — Free Press (@freepress) July 7, 2020 Color of Change President Rashad Robinson, who was also at the […]
Instagram rolls out pinned comments to everyone
[ad_1] Instagram is giving users some more control over the conversation on their photos and videos. It started testing pinned comments in May alongside its comment filtering tools, and now it’s rolling out the feature to everyone. Today we’re rolling out pinned comments everywhere. 📌 That means you can a pin a few comments to […]
TikTok will exit Hong Kong because of China’s new security law
[ad_1] All those efforts aren’t necessarily helping, though. When asked about it by Fox News, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US is “certainly looking at” banning Chinese social media apps like TikTok. In addition, the US Senate recently asked intelligence services to probe TikTok to see if it presents any kind […]
Reddit and LinkedIn will fix clipboard snooping in their iOS apps
[ad_1] The clipboard privacy feature in iOS 14 is prompting more major developers to tone down their apps’ nosy behavior. To start, Reddit told The Verge in a statement that it would fix code in its iOS app that copies clipboard data with virtually every keystroke, as Urspace.io co-founder Don Morton discovered. There’s a “codepath” […]
For a ‘free speech social network,’ Parler isn’t that free
[ad_1] I’m proud to join @parler_app — a platform gets what free speech is all about — and I’m excited to be a part of it. Let’s speak. Let’s speak freely. And let’s end the Silicon Valley censorship. Follow me there @tedcruz! pic.twitter.com/pzUFvhipBZ — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 25, 2020 The app has been downloaded […]
Facebook shared user data with developers it shouldn’t have — again
[ad_1] Facebook didn’t disclose how long the “issue” had been around before it was fixed, or how many users may have been impacted. The company said it affected “approximately 5,000 developers” from “the last several months.” Facebook also didn’t specify exactly what data may have been improperly shared, but said the users had previously authorized […]