Articles in Social Media

• Facebook Sues Chinese Companies For Selling Fake Accounts

  According to a report earlier this month, Facebook, and more specifically its Instagram division, are suing 4 companies based in China for promoting the sale of fake accounts,…

• Fact Checking WhatsApp

  With the continuing proliferation of so-called Fake News, it is becoming more and more important to ensure that we can differentiate between them. And while on social media…

• The Facebook Anti-Suicide Algorithm

  Following on from recent scandals surrounding the live-streaming of suicides on Facebook, the company last year launched an ambitious project to use artificial intelligence to…

• Instagram To Remove Fake Likes & Followers

  Last week Instagram (owned by Facebook), announced that in a continuing effort to reduce "inauthentic" (fake) activity on the platform, they would begin removing fake likes and…

• Facebook Moves Against Bullying With Keyword Blocking

  Under pressure for some time already to combat the growing problems of bullying and harassment on Facebook, the platform has announced that they will begin to allow users to block…

• US Pressures Facebook & Twitter To Make Rules Clearer

  The on-going investigations into election interference and misinformation by the United States congress saw appearances by both the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and the…

• Facebook Shares Drop On Q2 Growth

  Facebook has just released its earnings report for the 2nd quarter of 2018, and slowed growth for the social media platform is causing some concern regarding its future potential.…

• Twitter User Numbers Down

  Hot on the heels of Facebooks reported slow-down of growth for Q2, Twitter followed suit by reporting not just that growth had slowed, but that they actually lost 1 million active…

• Facebook Reveals What Data It Collects

  Following on from Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before the US Congress in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and as part of his testimony, Facebook has revealed all (or…

• New Social Media Guidelines For Political Ads

  In the wake of recent scandals about social media and its impact in political campaigns and elections, two of the worlds largest social media companies have, almost at the same…

• The Challenge Of Brand Authenticity

  In online marketing in recent years, authenticity has become one of the most popular buzzwords. Everybody is talking about people’s need to be authentic, but very few people are…

• Download Your Facebook Data

  Unless you've been living under a social media rock for the past couple of months, you've probably noticed that Facebook has been in the news a lot, and has been embroiled in some…