Did you know LinkedIn allows you to control who can see your email address on your profile? By default, only your direct connections on LinkedIn will be able to see your email address. However, you also have three other visibility options to choose from. Our guide will show you how this feature works. Note: These…
Despite Tumblr having faded into the background in the social media landscape, the Internet Research Agency–the Russian entity that sought to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election via social media–saw enough use in the microblogging platform to establish at least 84 accounts that were used in a “disinformation campaign.” Tumblr revealed in a blog post…
Since the Cambridge Analytica Facebook data scandal, the number one question I’ve been asked is, “What Facebook data did they get?” The second most popular question is, “What did Cambridge Analytica do with it?” Let’s review:
What we’ve been told
According to Mark Zuckerberg, “In 2013, a Cambridge University researcher named Aleksandr Kogan created a personality quiz app. It was installed by around 300,000 people who shared their data as well as some of their friends’ data. Given the way our platform worked at the time this meant Kogan was able to access tens of millions of their friends’ data.” Later in the same post, Zuckerberg claims that the issue surfaced again in 2015 and Facebook took action (perhaps not enough action) to bring the offending company into compliance with Facebook policies.
Heineken Light is on the defensive over new ads that use the tagline “sometimes lighter is better,” after they were deemed racist by Chance the Rapper.
In a message on Twitter, where he has more than 7 million followers, the artist held up one of the ads as an example of how, in his view, marketers sometimes don’t mind getting called racist:
I think some companies are purposely putting out noticably racist ads so they can get more views. And that shit racist/bogus so I guess I shouldn’t help by posting about it. But I gotta just say tho. The “sometimes lighter is better” Hienekin commercial is terribly racist omg
“60 Minutes” on Sunday night notched its highest ratings in a decade, as CBS’s exclusive interview with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels got a boost from Kansas’ thrilling overtime win over Duke, also on CBS, in the NCAA basketball tournament.
According to preliminary Nielsen data, Daniels’ revealing conversation with Anderson Cooper about her relationship with future-President Donald Trump was watched by some 23.5 million viewers, of whom around 7.25 million were members of CBS’s target audience. (The half-hour that coincided with Daniels’ appearance delivered a 6.0 rating among adults 25 to 54).
Factoring in the second half of the broadcast, which included an interview with NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, “60 Minutes” on Sunday averaged 22.1 million viewers and a 5.3 in the demo, which works out to 6.35 million adults 25 to 54.
Digital design paying homage to the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Specifically, how his dream has outlived his life… spanning generations to come.
Political consultant Mark Jablonowski predicts that Facebook won’t lack for political ads during this year’s campaign season despite the rancor caused by Russian election meddling and a massive data leak.
“For the time being, people are still on Facebook, and political advertisers want to advertise where their constituents are,” says Jablonowski, partner and chief technology officer at DSPolitical, a digital ad firm that serves Democrats.
Facebook has grown into a colossus in campaign spending, serving up a rich bounty of intimate data that is used to target potential voters from among its online audience of more than 200 million monthly users in the U.S. Campaign spending on Facebook and other digital media will rise to an estimated $600 million this year, compared with about $250 million in 2014, the last congressional election year without a presidential contest. That’s roughly one-fifth of the money expected to be spent on campaigns this year and Facebook is poised to get three-fifths of that.
Facebook is heading toward its worst month in more than five years after an analyst report warned of a temporary pullback in advertising and the FTC confirmed it’s investigating the social network’s privacy practices.
The shares fell as much as 6.5 percent Monday in New York, bucking the broader positive direction of the markets and putting them on course for the worst month since August 2012. Facebook has lost about $100 billion in market value in the past 10 days.
Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., wrote that the firm’s latest social media survey indicates “some moderation in Facebook usage,” and notes potential for brands and small and medium-sized businesses to “pause some Facebook campaigns until headlines subside.” He lowered his price target to $210 from $225 while saying shares remain attractive for investors with medium to long-term time horizons.
One of the saddest aspects of Alzheimer’s disease is the toll it takes on daughters and sons as they care for their parents while seeing their mental faculties deteriorate. BBDO New York focuses on that aspect of the neurological disease in “Daughter and Mother,” a bracing new spot for Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. It’s the first…
How do you get the founder and CEO of two trendy companies with strong Facebook pages to delete those pages from the social network? Just ask him, on Twitter. Among the many casualties of the uproar over Cambridge Analytica and user data, the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX have been nonexistent since Friday, following…
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