SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Apple Inc on Wednesday removed an app that protestors in Hong Kong have used to track police movements, saying the app violated its rules because it was used to ambush police and by criminals who used it to victimize residents in areas with no law enforcement. Apple rejected the […]
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Instagram is getting rid of its 'Following' listing, which showed users what their friends were engaging with. Source link
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from the what-do-you-meme? dept By now you’re likely aware that Donald Trump tweets. Like, a lot. An unfortunate amount, actually. And he also often takes a break from tweeting his own authored… I don’t know, let’s call them thoughts… to instead simply retweet any sycophanitic content he can find out there. Sometimes, in fact, he
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A Facebook page called “I Love America” that featured patriotic themes, rippling flags and pro-Trump memes was closed Monday after it turned out to be run by Ukrainians. Facebook took action against the page — which had 1.1 million followers — and several affiliated ones after a report in Popular Information, a politically themed online
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Facebook says it has deleted 168 accounts, 149 pages, and 79 groups based in Ukraine for “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” its head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said in a September 16 statement. He emphasized the reason behind the removals was “not the content they posted.” Gleicher said the “people behind this activity coordinated with one
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Several months ago, the disavow backlinks help document in Google’s help center mentioned a section about PageRank and how PageRank is one of 200 signals Google uses for rankings. That help document was updated sometime in the past several months and removed both those references. Before it said: PageRank is Google’s opinion of the importance
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Image copyright Getty Images Facebook has removed a Conservative Party advert which misrepresented a BBC News story. The ad carried a BBC logo and headline saying “£14 billion pound cash boost for schools” – despite the story it linked to putting the figure at £7.1bn. The social media giant say the Tories had “misused” its
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Welcome back to another edition of the online advertising news round-up! We’ve got eight stories for you this time: Facebook testing search ads and removing seldom used interest targets, Google simplifying navigation from the image search results to websites, Microsoft Advertising making dynamic search ads (DSAs) bigger, and more! Let’s dive in. 1. Facebook expands
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Facebook recently announced they will take strides to lessen the potential for discriminatory advertising practices by limiting the targeting capabilities for certain industries, including ads for housing, employment, and loans. Previously, Facebook largely relied on advertisers to comply with its anti-discrimination policies but did not actively block them from using the targeting categories. Moving forward,
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Happy spring, dearest readers. Warm days are ahead! While the seasons were changing, so was the world of online advertising—that’s why it’s time for another news round-up. Let’s see what’s been going on recently. Facebook removes more targeting options In 2018, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Communication Workers of
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