Ryder Media Consultants

20/07/2022

This is very much a thing.

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products

18/07/2022

Instagram is showing more ads and recommended content than ever, users report — and the perceived quality of suggested posts took a nosedive.

Here’s how to snooze annoying posts and nudge your algorithm in the right direction: https://wapo.st/3PzZV3d

17/05/2022

“I keep telling the other sisters, ‘Get on TikTok!’” said Sister Monica Clare, who at 56 is the youngest in her community. “‘If we’re hidden, we’re going to die out.’” https://nyti.ms/3sDPORY

18/11/2021

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a type of digital asset, have exploded in popularity this year, with NFT artworks selling for millions of dollars.

27/10/2021

Instagram users rejoice! Link stickers which replaced the previous swipe up feature, historically reserved for verified accounts and/or those with 10k+ followers are now available to EVERYONE regardless of follower count, to easily share links in a story.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/instagram-rolls-out-the-ability-for-all-users-to-share-links-in-stories-via-link-stickers/

Instagram announced on Wednesday that all users now have access to its Link Sticker feature in Instagram Stories. The expansion comes as the company recently ditched the “swipe-up” link in Instagram Stories in favor of the new Link Stickers. Both the previous “swipe-up” link and new Link Sti...

21/10/2021

The incomparable Mari Smith has put together a step-by-step guide on what to do if your Facebook account gets hacked.

If you've ever had your Facebook account hacked - or your business Page, Business Manager or Ad Account hacked - help is at hand!! 👋🏻 Check out this MEGA blog post I just published after my own Business Manager got hacked! Whaaaat?! 😳 Yep, couldn't believe it. https://www.marismith.com/facebook-hacked-help/

There's a lot you can do to SECURE and protect your accounts. And, it is possible to get help and get your Facebook back. With my own hacking incident, the scammers somehow added themselves to my Business Manager, demoted me and my Admins, and promptly started running scam ads. Thankfully, the Facebook AI caught the shenanigans in time and shut down my ad account before any money was spent.

Scammers got in to my friend Molly Mahoney's Business Manager and ran up $20k of scam ads! 😫 Yikes. Fortunately she got most all of that back quickly, but she's still dealing with the aftermath. Adryenn Ashley had a very similar situation and the hackers took control of her page and started posting junk videos. The list goes on. It blows my mind how much nefarious activity - just in the hacking arena - happens on Facebook with no accountability. 😢

I was fortunate to regain control of my Business Manager and Ad Account within 48 hours. But this is somewhat rare. As you likely know, Facebook is not known for its customer support and it's practically impossible for most users to speak with a human. So, I've put a ton of research into this mega post with steps and solutions to help regain control of your accounts and to hopefully prevent any hacking incidents from ever happening (again)!!

Please do share this with anyone in your community that might benefit and certainly folks dealing with hacking issues. Thank you! 🙏🏻🥰

15/10/2021

He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right.

28/09/2021

14/09/2021

Beau Jessup is just like any other British teenager, except for one thing — she’s making hundreds of thousands of dollars and funding her way through college by naming Chinese babies.

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10/09/2021

A movement against Western influence threatens to close off a nation that succeeded in part by welcoming new ideas.

06/09/2021

On Friday, the streaming service Hulu, debuted its new series, “The D’Amelio Show,” which follows the behind-the-scenes lives of TikTok influencer siblings Charli, 17, and Dixie, 20, and their parents, Marc and Heidi D’Amelio, as they navigate social media stardom.

28/07/2021

19/07/2021

Conservative podcast host Ben Shapiro drives an engagement machine unparalleled by anything else on Facebook. An NPR analysis of social media data found that over the past year, stories published by the site Shapiro founded, The Daily Wire, received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin.

In May, Ben Shapiro's website The Daily Wire had more Facebook engagement on its articles than The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post and NBC News combined.

17/07/2021

10/07/2021

It's been over 15 years since a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and four of his roommates unleashed their creation, TheFacebook.com, on humanity. Since then, Facebook has transformed from a website for poking your college crush to one of the most powerful engines of communication in the world. Zuckerberg's creation has, for better and for worse, forever changed how people connect, how businesses make money, how politicians seize power, and how information flows across communities and cultures.

Check out our look back at the 15 moments that made Facebook what it is today: https://wired.trib.al/eKEsA9W
📸: Elena Dorfman | Redux

14/06/2021

That’s not just a tweet; that’s your original idea and your intellectual property, and maybe you can sell it.