Threads doesn't have ads, but Meta representatives are talking with ad agencies and brands, some of which, like Netflix and Wendy's, already have many followers
but it will give brands a refuge from Twitter International Business Times : YouTuber MrBeast becomes first to get 1 mn followers on Threads Kendra Clark / The Drum : Instagram's T...
Adam Mosseri says Threads will not “encourage” politics and “hard news” as such content brings scrutiny that isn't worth the “incremental engagement or revenue”
/ Adam Mosseri ran Facebook's News Feed in 2016, and now he tells Alex Heath that politics …
Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more
Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game ...
Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more
“It's almost like everyday you wake up and you're punched in the stomach,” the billionaire CEO told Rogan. — Matthew Gault
Snap Q2: revenue up 13% YoY to $1.11B, vs. $1.14B est., DAUs up 18% to 347M, vs. 344.2M est., net loss of $422M, up from $152M YoY
- Snap missed on the top and bottom lines in its second-quarter earnings report. — The company authorized a stock repurchasing program of up to $500 million.
Ex-Facebook PM Frances Haugen comes forward as the key source behind WSJ's Facebook Files, saying she became alarmed by how profits came before public safety
The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant — The former Facebook Inc. employee …
In a 60 Minutes interview, WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, and more
Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.”
LinkedIn is abandoning its Stories format at the end of September and has told advertisers to adjust their ad campaigns accordingly
Brands will have to adjust ad campaigns when video format leaves the platform after September — LinkedIn is telling advertisers to prepare for the end … Source: LinkedIn .
Instagram launches a new shopping section called Drops, helping users find limited supply products, and will temporarily waive fees due to COVID-19
Snap says Apple's changes to IDFA will interrupt demand; Unity says IDFA changes will affect how mobile game developers “optimize lifetime customer value”
- Snap and Unity Software, which reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell Thursday, both warned of the upcoming impact …
Facebook promotes longtime growth executive Alex Schultz to take over as chief marketing officer following Antonio Lucio's departure last month
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Facebook promotes longtime growth executive Alex Schultz to take over as chief marketing officer following Antonio Lucio's departure last month
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Large rival companies say Amazon restricts how competing products, like smart speakers and video doorbells, can be advertised, giving Amazon's devices an edge
With top 100 brands contributing only an estimated 6% of Facebook's revenue and Zuckerberg's voting control over the company, ad boycott's impact may be limited
(CNN)For years, Facebook (FB) has been viewed as one of the only truly indispensable digital advertising platforms for big …
Unilever says it will halt US advertising on Facebook and Twitter for at least the remainder of 2020, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms
to the point where it has de-indexed entire countries rather than do so — but that dam broke this week. Why? https://www.cjr.org/... Alexia Bonatsos / @alexia : Facebook on the oth...
Verizon joins the boycott of Facebook ads, pulling them until Facebook has “an acceptable solution that makes us comfortable”, the largest advertiser so far
- Verizon said on Thursday it is pulling advertising on Facebook and Instagram. — On Thursday, the Anti-Defamation …
In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub
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In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub
- CEO to look at policies on voter suppression, state force — Facebook will launch a voter hub for vetted information
Sensor Tower and Apptopia say Twitter broke US and worldwide single-day download records this week with 600K+ downloads and 40M US DAUs on Thursday
Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week …
Google will pay a $136M fine to the FTC and $34M to the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube
and part of the FTC knows it Ryne Hager / Android Police : YouTube will disable comments and personalized ads on children's content in wake of FTC fine Tweets: Josh Hawley / @hawle...