Image copyright Getty Images Ben and Jerry’s has joined a growing list of firms pulling advertising from Facebook platforms throughout July. It’s part of the Stop Hate For Profit campaign, which calls on Facebook to have stricter measures against racist and hateful content. Ben and Jerry’s Tweeted that it “will pause all paid advertising on […]
Facebook has acquired Ready At Dawn Studios, the maker of the Lone Echo series of virtual reality games as well as console games like The Order: 1888. The deal comes the same day that Facebook Gaming said it would accept transfers of streamers and viewers after Microsoft said it would shut down its Mixer livestreaming
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Image copyright Mixer Image caption Mixer signed exclusive deals with some popular streamers, including Ninja Microsoft has decided to close its Mixer livestreaming service and is partnering with Facebook Gaming instead. Mixer made headlines last year when it signed a reportedly multi-million dollar exclusivity deal with Ninja, a big star on rival platform Twitch. But
Enlarge / The participating businesses have decided the best way to show “dislike” is to withhold money. Several brands have agreed to suspend advertising on Facebook for the month of July and are calling for other companies to join them in boycotting the platform to protest its handling of racism and hate speech. Patagonia, producer
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Image copyright Patagonia/North Face Outdoor brands The North Face, Patagonia and Rei have pulled their advertising from Facebook platforms. The Stop Hate For Profits campaign is calling on brands to join the boycott during the month of July. The North Face said it was halting ads “until stricter policies are put in place to stop
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has said the platform will avoid moderating political speech Facebook says it has removed adverts for US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany. The company said the offending ad contained an inverted red triangle similar to that used by
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(Reuters) — Facebook said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organized hate. The ads showed a red inverted triangle, a symbol the Nazis used to identify political prisoners, with text asking Facebook users to sign a petition against
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Officials from Facebook, Google and Twitter testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Getty Images Officials from Facebook, Google and Twitter signaled to lawmakers Thursday that the companies are more prepared to deal with misinformation on their platforms during the 2020 US presidential election, even as bad actors change tactics to try to evade detection. Foreign interference has been
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As the scrutiny around Facebook’s role in political information and advertising continues, they have made a decision about how to handle it: continue to try and provide clean, transparent information, and let the users decide with their votes in elections. “With so much of our discourse taking place online, I believe platforms like Facebook can
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The agency also seeks to force tech giants to be more transparent about their content-moderation decisions and more consistent in their enforcement of them, according to a report the department released Wednesday. The move might offer the U.S. government a new avenue to probe and punish companies over allegations of political bias. And the new
