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Facebook is the most used social network worldwide, with roughly 2.93 billion monthly active users as of Q1 2022. When done thoughtfully, Facebook organic marketing is one of the best ways merchants can boost awareness of products or services. It may not be as easy as it once was, but organic marketing isn’t dead. Here are powerful ways to boost your Facebook organic reach. Facebook Organic Reach Target your niche. The first step is to pinpoint where your shortcomings are by gathering key metrics on your audience. Without this diagnosis, you won’t know where to focus your efforts. Facebook Insights can help. Navigate to Insights Overview See All Insights Audience Export Data.  Then download your data both on a page and post level. Navigate to Insights Overview See All Insights Audience Export Data.  Then download your data both on a page and post level. The next step is to delve deeper into post metrics for a view of your overall performance and a detailed look at how users interact with the content,  » Read More

By Syndicated Content Jun 13, 2022 | 12:26 PM BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet unit Google, Facebook, Twitter and other tech companies will have to take measures to counter deepfakes and fake accounts on their platforms or risk hefty fines, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.The measure is part of the European Commission’s updated code of practice on disinformation which the EU executive will publish on Thursday as it continues its fight against fake news, the people said.The voluntary code was introduced in 2018.(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Jan Harvey) Coldwater, MI, USA 80 °F Sunny  » Read More

DEVOL, Okla. (KAUZ) - The Better Business Bureau is warning of scammers who are taking advantage of your Facebook friends.BBB officials said scammers are impersonating Facebook friends and sending messages to users. The scam starts when the scammer allegedly sees your name on a list of people who are owed workers’ compensation.They then provide you with a phone number of a person who can help you collect the money. During the call, the agent asks you to pay a small fee. If you send money to the scammer, they will either take the money and disappear or ask for more money.The Better Business Bureau has provided the following tips to avoid Facebook scams:Watch out for fake friends - if you get an unusual request or a strange offer from a Facebook friend, contact that person directly to find out if they’ve been hacked before you take any further actionNever pay money to get money - if a legitimate business or governmental organization owes you money,  » Read More

A man accused of shooting and killing his pregnant fiancée and a Mississippi police officer Thursday evening was arrested Friday morning after an overnight manhunt. Hear the latest updates in the video above.The Mississippi Highway Patrol said 31-year-old Dante Marquez Bender was taken into custody around 10:30 a.m. Friday in Ackerman, Mississippi.A Blue Alert was issued Thursday for Bender after he allegedly shot and killed 30-year-old Meridian Officer Kennis Croom, who was the first officer on scene at a domestic violence call. The suspect's pregnant fiancée, Brittany Jones, was also killed in the shooting.Croom was described by his colleagues as an "exceptional officer with a passion for serving and being an officer."The slain officer was a Tuscaloosa native and was part of a well-known family in the area. Both his father, Kelvin Croom, and his uncle, Sylvester Croom Jr., were star football players at The University of Alabama. His uncle also went on to become the Southeastern Conference's first Black football coach at Mississippi State in the early 2000s.Croom's father is now the pastor at College Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa.  » Read More

The tab for calls will now appear in all Facebook Messenger user's apps. As this feature is slowly rolling out to a few selected users, they can now spot this function on the lower section of the app's screen, situated between the People and Chats tab. It will eventually be available to all users since it is being updated in phases.According to Meta, the decision to integrate the feature for calls on the Facebook Messenger app's main screen was taken because of the substantial increase in video and audio calls conducted through another user's chat window. To call someone on the app, users had to create a new chat and then tap on the call button. The update has made making calls on Messenger more accessible and easier to use.There are 40 percent more regular users now than earlier in the year 2020. The reason behind this is the COVID-19 outbreak which drove many companies and employees to work remotely,  » Read More

Bride Gwendolyn Stulgis posted on Facebook that she was giving away her $3,000 wedding dress on the platform. Stulgis picked Margaret Hyde "because she is always the one doing the giving," Hyde's submission read. Since passing her gown to Hyde, Stulgis told Insider that 12 more brides have donated their dresses. Loading Something is loading. Gwendolyn Stulgis began her wedding dress shopping experience looking for the gown that made her feel the most beautiful. After looking in several shops near her home, Stulgis found "the one" at a local boutique, Evaline's Bridal & Tuxedo, in Warren, Ohio: a champagne-colored wedding dress by Allure Bridals that included beading, lace, and sheer fabric on the long sleeves. But the cost was high for the bride: $3,000.Stulgis told Insider that although it was out of her budget, she loved it too much to pass on it. She had originally set a budget of $1,000."I got emotional looking at it because it was everything I really wanted," she said.  » Read More

California: Facebook’s parent company Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has announced her departure after 14 years.In a Facebook post on Wednesday, she said, “Today, I am sharing the news that after 14 years, I will be leaving Meta.”According to BBC, her departure comes as Meta faces a slowdown in advertising sales and more competition from rivals such as TikTok.She is one of the most high-profile women in the tech industry.Sandberg said, “When I first met Mark, I was not really looking for a new job – and I could have never predicted how meeting him would change my life. We were at a holiday party at Daniel L Rosensweig’s house.“I was introduced to Mark as I walked in the door, and we started talking about his vision for Facebook. I had tried The Facebook, as it was first called, but still thought the internet was a largely anonymous place to search for funny pictures.”Speaking about the time she became a part of Facebook,  » Read More

Panelists at the Stigler Center’s recent antitrust conference look at the antitrust case against Facebook and discuss potential theories of harm, as well as the remedies that enforcers around the world have proposed or implemented.  This year’s Stigler Center’s 2022 Antitrust and Competition Conference, which took place in late April this year, looked back over its previous five editions while also looking ahead to what’s next in enforcement. There was one particular corporate behemoth that couldn’t be left out of the conversation: Facebook–a company that has not only seen its strategic focus pivot to the “Metaverse” and name changed to Meta, but also its revenue balloon in size while weathering multiple storms over the last few years, ranging from user privacy concerns to anticompetive behavior, to allegations of fueling genocide and subverting democracy, both in the United States and abroad. The final panel at this year’s Stigler Center conference took stock of answering several questions regarding Facebook and antitrust: Presuming guilt on Facebook’s part,  » Read More

After a decade of trading as Facebook, the social media giant is shedding the last vestige of its old corporate avatar as it begins trading under the ticker symbol 'META' on Thursday. Meta Platforms Inc rebranded from its eponymous social networking platform in October 2021, betting that the metaverse, a shared virtual realm, will succeed mobile internet. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's co-founder and CEO, established Facebook in 2004 from his Harvard dorm as a way for students to meet via the internet. Little did the then 19-year-old student know that Facebook would become integral to many people's social life, with nearly three billion monthly users, and expand to include popular social media apps Instagram and Whatsapp in its universe. Nearly two decades on, his company is pouring billions of dollars into the metaverse, a futuristic idea of virtual environments where users can work, socialize and play, by adding new features to hardware devices that serve as access points. "Companies that change their official name and ticker are usually trying to signal that there has been a fundamental change in the underlying business model," Art Hogan,  » Read More