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The lost rule was said to have allowed for the discussion of people or organisations deemed dangerous when centred around conditions of confinement The oversight board had overturned the removal of an Instagram post about the solitary confinement of Abdullah Ocalan, of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party Topic |   FacebookE3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635 Published: 10:10am, 9 Jul, 2021 Updated: 10:10am, 9 Jul, 2021  » Read More

Animal charity contacted KOIN for help by: Dan Tilkin, KOIN 6 News Staff Posted: Jul 8, 2021 / 05:50 PM PDT / Updated: Jul 8, 2021 / 06:02 PM PDT PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The mission of I Paw’d It Forward is to help with lost and found pets in Clark County. But their mission was in jeopardy when thousands of dollars in donations were held by Facebook for months. The animal charity likes to get donations through Facebook because the social media giant does not take a cut of the cash. But $16,000 in donations wasn’t coming through. Keri-Lyn Jakubs with I Paw’d It Forward contacted KOIN 6 News after she wasn’t able to get any answers from Facebook. Donate: I Paw’d It Forward on Facebook When contacted by KOIN 6 News, Facebook Media Relations promised to get to the bottom of it. After some back-and-forth, Facebook delivered the cash Tuesday.  » Read More

Shannon Keeler says her alleged attacker confessed via Facebook messages. July 8, 2021, 1:35 AM• 9 min readNearly eight years after Shannon Keeler’s alleged rape after a 2013 fraternity party at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and after receiving a series of disturbing Facebook messages from the man she’d accused, authorities have filed charges against the man.The Adams County District Attorney’s Office announced on June 30 that it had filed sexual assault charges against Ian Thomas Cleary, 28, of Saratoga, California. Authorities, however, have not yet found Cleary or released a photo of him.Keeler was on vacation with her boyfriend last year when she says she saw what appeared to be multiple Facebook messages from Cleary. One specific message, she said, admitted to the attack.“So, I raped you,” Keeler said the message read in an interview with ABC News in May. “I’ll never do it to anyone ever again.”Watch the full story on "Nightline" TONIGHT at 12:35 a.m.  » Read More

Ex-Rep. Vito Fossella’s last-minute, game-changing endorsement from former President Donald Trump in the Staten Island borough president GOP primary got a paid, targeted Facebook boost from an unexpected source: conservative cable news outlet Newsmax. Like many other news organizations, Newsmax Media Inc. regularly spends money to promote its stories on the social media platform. But Newsmax’s $25,000 expenditure for its piece touting the Trump endorsement in the local race stood out, given that it was the only of the cable outfit’s 54 ad buys last month that targeted a single state — New York — leading up to the city’s June 22 primary election. Newsmax’s paid promotion for its story about Fossella, a former City Council and Congress member who once hosted a political reality show on the channel, doesn’t need to be reported to the city Campaign Finance Board, an agency spokesperson said. “It’s such a big loophole to drive through,” said Richard Flanagan, a professor of political science at CUNY’s College of Staten Island. “But it sure is funny business,  » Read More

Facebook’s director-marketing Avinash Pant holds forth in an exclusive chat with The Drum on the social networking brand’s consumer marketing strategy in India, its evolution, and the way forward for the Facebook family of apps.There are over 330m users of Facebook in India, making it the social network's largest audience in the world by country, according to Statista. Alongside this, both Instagram and Whatsapp are also widely used, creating an interesting opportunity for consumer marketing within the Facebook family of services. To understand how this is being executed, The Drum spoke to Facebook's director of marketing, India, Avinash Pant.From 15-second films to over 7-minute-long brand films, how do you navigate the diverse journey of creating stories for the Facebook family that also includes, Instagram and WhatsApp? Each of the platforms plays a different role in our lives and the family of apps is deeply enmeshed in the cultural fabric of the country - from messaging for Whatsapp to self-expression on Instagram to engage with communities at large on Facebook. While the journey of creating stories for our apps has been diverse (from building and reinforcing our 15-second narrative for Instagram Reels,  » Read More

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Monash University has exposed the murky nature of Facebook's 'dark' ads. (Source: Getty)It’s fairly common knowledge that Facebook feeds you ads depending on what your interests are and what you’re browsing online – but these ads may be much more insidious than you think.Facebook ads have been accused of encouraging fake news and reinforcing discriminatory, harmful stereotypes that leave users feeling “anxious” and “powerless”, new research has found.A study by Monash University researchers found that Facebook’s hyper-targeted advertisements, driven by data collected on the individual, allows the social media juggernaut to evade accountability for potentially harmful impacts.Also read:Facebook exposed for using minors’ data for targeted adsFacebook’s early antitrust win doesn't let it or Big Tech off the hookHow Aussie entrepreneur uses Facebook groups for business successHow do ‘dark ads’ work?In older forms of advertising,  » Read More

Potluck at the park brings Eating Through the Pandemic Facebook friends together in real life 1 of 2 Kim Hough of Roseburg, Oregon (left), and her mother, Rachel McGuire of Lincoln, dig into the dishes at the Eating Through the Pandemic Facebook group's potluck on Saturday at Antelope Park. Alisa Kushner, who started the Eating Through the Pandemic Facebook group called the potluck "pretty amazing," and estimated that 110 to 120 members of the group showed up to break bread in person at Antelope Park on Saturday. Claire Larson brought her sourdough bread — and her parents — to the Eating Through the Pandemic potluck on Saturday.They made their way through the line of homemade everything laid out on a long table at Antelope Park.Pasta salads and three-bean delights, deviled eggs and scones and fruit crumbles and chocolatey concoctions.“Your sourdough is beyond awesome,” said Darren Keen, the guy in line behind Larson,  » Read More

The “Ending Platform Monopolies Act” would make it illegal for a dominant platform (Amazon or Apple are the most obvious) from creating their own products or services to compete with competitors using their platforms. Amazon, for instance, has private-label products that compete with third parties within Amazon Marketplace.Another proposed bill would give consumers more control over the use and transportability of their data.The fate of the bills is uncertain. While both Democrats and Republicans are committed to crackdowns on Big Tech, it’s for very different reasons.China’s crackdown on its large tech companies appears partly driven by a desire to heading off the threat of their rapidly increasing power and influence to the Communist Party stranglehold on everything of significance that happens within China but also by concerns about their impact on financial stability and data privacy. Credit:APThe Democrats see Big Tech’s dominance in conventional competition policy terms – the companies are too big and use their market power to engage in anti-competitive conduct – while the Republicans want to punish the big social media companies for their alleged censorship of conservative speech.  » Read More

Guardian Australia and Facebook have reached a deal over payments for the publisher’s news content, following the passage of the news media bargaining code in February. Under the agreement, reported by Guardian Australia, the publisher will licence its news content to Facebook’s News tab which is yet to launch locally. “We are pleased to partner with Guardian Australia to bring additional news posts to Facebook,” says Facebook AUNZ news partnerships lead Andrew Hunter. “Facebook will continue to work with a variety of publishers to support the sustainability of Australia’s news industry.” The Facebook News tab, which has already launched in the US, is a dedicated tab on the platform which pays select news publishers to host their content. Facebook has already reached deals with other major news publishers in Australia including News Corp Australia, Nine and Seven West Media. Have something to say on this? Share your views in the comments section below. Or if you have a news story or tip-off,  » Read More