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07/20/2022

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

07/18/2022

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

05/17/2022

“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

11/18/2021

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

10/27/2021

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...

10/21/2021

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! 🙏🏻🥰

10/15/2021

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

09/28/2021

09/14/2021

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.

09/11/2021

09/10/2021

09/10/2021

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

09/06/2021

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.

07/28/2021

07/19/2021

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.

07/17/2021

07/10/2021

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

06/14/2021

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

06/12/2021

In just a few years, he's become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?

06/08/2021

To enable or disable Amazon Sidewalk, use the Alexa app.

Open the Alexa app .
Open More and select Settings.
Select Account Settings.
Select Amazon Sidewalk.
Turn Amazon Sidewalk On or Off for your account.

Amazon is switching Sidewalk on for everyone. The new kind of wireless network shares a slice of your home Internet connection with your neighbors’ devices. By participating, you have no control over what sort of data you’re helping to transmit.

The eyebrow-raising technology is buried inside millions of Amazon Echo smart speakers and Ring security cameras. Sidewalk will blanket urban and suburban America with a low-bandwidth wireless network that can stretch half a mile and reach places and things that were once too hard or too expensive to connect. https://wapo.st/34W9PXF

05/26/2021

"Adrian's Party"

05/11/2021

AOL and Yahoo are being sold (yet again). Now's the time to take charge of personal data left on old accounts. The process is relatively simple:

AOL and Yahoo are being sold by Verizon to Apollo Managment, an investment firm. Consumer Reports explains why it's a good time to delete any old and unused accounts.

05/10/2021

If you're using a social network for free, your personal information is the product.

05/09/2021

Signal tried to place multi-variant targeted ads on Instagram, and to insert in those ads the values of those variables based on which the ads were being generated, only to find that Facebook, almost immediately, blocked its accounts from doing so.

05/06/2021

Twitter has suspended an account created to share posts from a website recently launched by former President Donald Trump, claiming the new handle is an attempt to bypass the suspension of his personal account, in the latest move by a major social media company limiting Trump's ability to spread his message.

The new account was deemed an attempt to circumvent the suspension of Trump's personal Twitter handle.

05/06/2021

Debut video includes clips of couple on royal engagements, with William joking: ‘these guys are filming everything’

05/06/2021

The decision by Facebook to keep Donald Trump off its platform didn’t just limit the former president’s ability to amplify his message, it cut him off from one of the most effective political advertising and fundraising tools available.

Facebook has increasingly become one of the most vital weapons in a political campaign’s arsenal, and few had tapped into its potential for advertising and fund-raising as aggressively as Mr. Trump’s.

05/01/2021

Zoe Roth, who is now 21, is half a million dollars richer after selling a photo of her 4-year-old self as an NFT, or non-fungible token, at auction.

A college student is half a million dollars richer after selling a photo of her 4-year-old self in an online auction.

04/30/2021

There’s a certain trying-too-hard aesthetic that isn’t quite “basic” or “uncool” — but what is it?

A term gaining popularity on TikTok may fit the bill: “The word, my friend, is ‘cheugy.’”

Out of touch? Basic? A new term to describe a certain aesthetic is gaining popularity on TikTok.

04/12/2021

A third-party website, haveibeenpwned.com, makes it simple to check by inputting your email. For now, it just checks if your email was among those stolen.