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Opinion: It's time to combat Facebook's anti-democracy algorithms. by Tamir Eisenbach-Budner, The Oregon Way. Saturday, May 29th 2021. AA.  » Read More

Let’s just get to the elephant in the room. Facebook ads are struggling.Facebook is fighting a lawsuit against their reach metrics. And Facebook’s personalized ad campaign to combat Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) isn’t going well.But the truth is that Facebook ads actually work.With updates like exclusion controls, a new Conversions API that allows you to pull data directly from your server into Ads Manager, and transparency about the data Facebook is collecting, this social network doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.Ahead, I’ll explain how and why Facebook ads work, different types of Facebook ads, and how to get started creating your first Facebook ad.So, Do Facebook Ads Really Work?The short answer: Yes. Facebook ads do really work.Want proof?In 30 days, this app generated 7,044 installs after spending $9,821 on Facebook ads.BionicGym generated 9x ROI from their Facebook ads.  » Read More

May 27, 2021 10:09 PM Kaitlin Knapp Posted: May 27, 2021 10:09 PM Updated: May 28, 2021 7:41 AM SPOKANE, Wash. — Making friends during a pandemic is hard, imagine doing that when you are two-years-old. One Spokane mom hopes what she is doing will help other families in the same boat. Parents have been cooped up, so have their kids. Now, with vaccinations reaching a good portion of people in Spokane, one mom hopes what she’s doing will help other families connect and make vaccinated friends. She has found a way to skip the sometimes awkward, ‘are you vaccinated?’ question and get right to the good stuff — play dates. Mothers like Danielle Mize want what is best for their children. Along the way, it does not hurt to have a friend or two. “He doesn’t talk very much like words or phrases so we’ve taught him sign language and I think it’s partially because he’s not very socialized,” Mize said. Making friends was put on pause because of the pandemic,  » Read More

The DoT's plan comes at a time when when the government is in a tussle with Facebook-owned WhatsApp and social media platforms. May 28, 2021 / 09:47 AM IST WhatsApp and the government are in a legal battle over the messaging app's revised privacy policy. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is considering bringing calling apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype under its purview.The DoT is mulling this move from a national security point of view, and has sought comments from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs before preparing a licensing system, The Economic Times has reported."Some sort of licensing is required so that these companies store data of Indians within India like telcos do and give information to law enforcement agencies in a manner similar to that provided by telcos," a government official told the publication.Also read: Govt hits back, says Twitter's statement baseless, false and attempt to defame IndiaMoneycontrol could not independently verify the story.  » Read More

Facebook’s has been accused of “discriminatory and racist” behaviour after it deleted historical photos from a group that publishes archival photos of men and women from Papua New Guinea.The group, which boasts over 55,000 members, claims photos showing traditional dress or ceremonies were deleted for allegedly containing nudity – but photos showing nudity among white people were not.They are now calling on the social media giant to reconsider how it applies its community standards.The group encourages users to post any historical photos with whatever background information that can be provided, with many publishing detailed breakdowns of photos from a wide range of contexts.But users have been complaining of feeling censored, accusing Facebook of deleting some of the photos and banning some users from posting.One of the group’s administrators, Arthur Smedley, told the Guardian he found Facebook’s application of its policy “ridiculous” after a fellow administrator, Peter Tate, was allegedly banned for posting a photo of a group of men “bare-chested with no covering to the upper part of their bodies”.  » Read More

Facebook says it will no longer remove claims that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured from its apps “in light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts.” The move comes amid increasing pressure worldwide to investigate the origins of the pandemic, including the possibility that it came from a lab. Since the pandemic began, Facebook has been changing what it allows on the topic and what it bans. In February, it announced a host of new claims it would be prohibiting — including that COVID-19 was created in a Chinese lab. Other claims it added at the time included the false notion that vaccines are not effective or that they are toxic. Lisa Fazio, a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, said the reversal shows the difficulty of fact-checking in general, particularly with something unprecedented like the coronavirus, when experts can disagree and change their minds with new evidence. “It’s one reason that content moderation shouldn’t be static, scientific consensus changes over time,” Fazio said.  » Read More

Melody Mercado, Des Moines Register Published 2:29 p.m. CT May 26, 2021 | Updated 2:37 p.m. CT May 26, 2021CLOSE Take a tour of Facebook's Altoona data center WochitFacebook announced plans to expand its Altoona Data Center Wednesday morning, which will bring an additional $2 million annually to the city of Altoona.Construction on two new buildings has already begun, which will bring the total number of buildings on the campus to 10 and expand the campus' footprint to 4.1 million square feet."Our Altoona Data Center has already contributed millions of construction work hours to the Iowa economy and will ultimately result in a continuous project spanning more than a decade," Matt Sexton, a spokesman at the Altoona Facebook location, said in a statement.The company first announced its plans to build a data center in Altoona in 2013. Since then, Facebook has invested approximately $2 billion to develop the site, which broke ground on its seventh and eighth data centers in May 2019.  » Read More

Criminal justice researchers say that crime is being seen in a new way in digital ageIllustration by Henry Keller. (KSAT)SAN ANTONIO – The last moments of Felix Santos’ life were live-streamed on Facebook.What started as a routine traffic stop evolved into a chase that spanned into Atascosa County and ended in Santos’ fatal shooting death near a Bexar County elementary school on Jan. 26, 2021.The chase started in Pleasanton, just south of San Antonio, when police tried to arrest Santos who was wanted on a parole violation for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. According to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, Santos had prior criminal convictions.The chase started around 10 a.m. in Pleasanton, south of San Antonio, on Tuesday when police tried to pull over a pickup truck to arrest the driver, Santos, who was wanted on a parole violation for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. (Copyright 2020 by KSAT - All rights reserved.)Just before his death,  » Read More

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