Sentences with phrase «giant social network»

In most cases there are two easy ways to tell when Facebook (fb) makes a meaningful change to the algorithm: One is that media companies start to moan about how their traffic from the giant social network has been declining rapidly for no apparent reason.

As the giant social network points out, it has 650 million sports fans.

The giant social network takes the content and makes it load faster and look better on mobile devices, something that has been an issue for many media outlets — and has in turn helped drive the adoption of ad - blocking software.

The giant social network has a habit of removing things for its own reasons — in some cases content that has an important social and journalistic purpose.

In the latest controversy involving the giant social network's news judgement, Facebook (fb) removed an iconic photo from the Vietnam War: A picture of a young Kim Phuc running naked down a road after her village was hit by napalm.

Medium's new focus holds the potential for growth, but it also puts the company directly in the path of Facebook, since the giant social network is also busy trying to convince publishers large and small to see it as a home for their content — a distribution platform that can help get their journalism in front of more than a billion people.

On Tuesday, the giant social network announced a three new camera - related and sharing features that double down on that jealousy, duplicating some of its competitor's most popular features.

The giant social network didn't get where it is by settling for second place in any market, however, and that has meant an unprecedented push by CEO Mark Zuckerberg into video in all forms.

Ever since «fake news» first started to get traction during Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it has been seen by many as primarily a Facebook problem because many hoax and fake - news creators use the giant social network as a distribution system.

Here's what small businesses can do to ensure they're more easily discovered on the giant social network.

According to those numbers, some of the largest news publishers on the web have seen significant declines in traffic from the giant social network.

The giant social network started by pushing its Facebook Live feature as a home for short - form, viral videos by celebrities and other users.

Whether Facebook ever confirms that it deleted MacMillan's image or not, it's a well - known fact that the giant social network deletes and / or censors content all the time, for a variety of reasons.

Last year, the giant social network hired Ricky Van Veen, one of the co-founders of the video site CollegeHumor, and assigned him to license or fund the creation of what sounds a lot like TV - style entertainment content, including comedy shows.

Facebook routinely denies that it is a media entity, or that it should be expected to behave like one, and yet the giant social network continues to behave in ways that have a significant and tangible impact on the news that its users see about the world, and the practice of journalism in general.

In the process, however, it has raised questions about why the giant social network makes some of the choices it does.

That's because the giant social network is making what amount to editorial decisions using its algorithms, they argued, and those decisions aren't always going to line up with what media companies are interested in.

Google's purchase also keeps Waze out of the hands of Apple, which could have incorporated the company into its own map service, and Facebook, which might have integrated the app into its giant social network.

Just when you thought you had a handle on posting content and growing an audience on Facebook, the giant social network has changed its rules again.

This has the potential to attract a lion's share of your customers interested in live streaming video (because they're already present on the giant social network).

SAN FRANCISCO — During his testimony on Capitol Hill last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg batted down accusations that the giant social network has a liberal bent.

Shortly after Facebook bought Moves, the company promise it wouldn't share the data with the giant social network.

But it also puts the giant social network in a dicey position, given how partisan and — frankly — ugly this election has been.

Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said the giant social network is talking to publishers about letting Facebook host their content — not just promote it.

Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for $ 16 billion, on Tuesday urged people to delete their accounts on the giant social network, using the hashtag.

The giant social network eventually admitted it had been too loose with controls over its customers» data and ushered in a series of changes that gave Facebook's 2.2 billion members oversight over their personal information.

It is an ambitious, wide - ranging, well - intentioned and sometimes naïve declaration, meant to shed light on the giant social network's next aspirations, extending its next moves far beyond photo albums and celebrity livestreams.

And the giant social network can no longer count on Instagram to help retain that younger audience, according to eMarketer.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

For users like Robinson, those kinds of steps are key to restoring trust in the giant social network already tattered by the spread of election - related misinformation during the election.

SAN FRANCISCO — Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for $ 16 billion, on Tuesday urged people to delete their accounts on the giant social network.

The giant social network is taking steps to do something about it.

Facebook users say they are fed up with the giant social network's fake news problem.

Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg caused quite a stir when, speaking at the NewSchools Venture Summit, he indicated that he wanted to see kids under 13 be able to join his giant social network.

Some analysts are assuming that Facebook's new location feature will crush Foursquare, the startup that has popularized the location - based service business, because of the sheer size of the giant social network.

7:42: True to Facebook's hacker culture, a programmer at the giant social network hacked the Nasdaq opening bell button (with the exchange's permission) to automatically post a status update to Mark Zuckerberg's page — using the engineer's headphones:

Facebook says it is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a «trending topic» on the giant social network, a move adopted after a backlash over a report saying it suppressed conservative views.

This discovery was recently made by Twitter user Jonathan Jones, who spotted the new label and subsequently published a screenshot of the same on the giant social network.

It is an ambitious, wide - ranging, well - intentioned and sometimes naïve declaration, meant to shed light on the giant social network's next aspirations, extending its next moves far beyond photo albums and celebrity livestreams.

Shortly after Facebook bought Moves, the company promise it wouldn't share the data with the giant social network.

The giant social network is obviously trying to find some kind of middle ground between allowing dissidents to report on violent events without offending other users — but if nothing else, its ongoing inability to find that middle ground makes an important point about relying on proprietary platforms like Facebook.

Facebook has teamed up with Microsoft (and stuck the boot in to Google at the same time) by announcing that the giant social network will become integrated within Bing.Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Microsoft's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley to... Read more

The giant social network has been slowly pushing original content and making deals with publishers and creators to upload their work directly to the network's servers and its more than one billion users.

Facebook say Monday, May 23, that it is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a «trending topic» on the giant social network, a move adopted after a backlash over a report saying it suppressed conservative views.

All that action got Facebook into some hot waters in Europe, and the giant social network just agreed not to use WhatsApp user data in the UK — for now at least.

Given WhatsApp's popularity, it's not surprising to see the European Union investigate Facebook, as the giant social network now owns two major communication platforms that are widely used across the globe, including Europe.

The Messenger Kids app should be used by those children who are too young to actually have a full Facebook account, and it can be an excellent tool for parents to shield their kids from everything that's happening on the giant social network until they come of age.