Fahad HAug 29, 20182 min readInstagram fights back against fake accounts & bad actors with new safety toolsAfter last week’s announcement that 652 Pages, accounts and groups had been removed from Facebook and Instagram, Facebook’s less popular...
Fahad HAug 24, 20183 min readFacebook recruits former HP marketing lead as its new CMOFacebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox with the company’s new CMO, Antonio Lucio Since Facebook CMO Gary Briggs announced his plans to...
Fahad HAug 22, 20182 min readFacebook to WaPo: No, we are not rating the trustworthiness of usersOn August 22, The Washington Post reported Facebook has spent the last year building, and is now using, a rating system that assigns...
Fahad HAug 21, 20182 min readFacebook removes 5K ad targeting filters to keep advertisers from discriminating against ethnic Facebook is continuing the push to make its platform safer for users, this time removing more than 5,000 ad targeting filters from its...
Fahad HAug 9, 20187 min readFacebook’s content review policy: How it works, the teams & tech behind the reviews &Last week, Facebook announced it had removed 32 Pages and accounts from its platform and Instagram for “coordinated inauthentic behavior”...
Fahad HAug 2, 20181 min readTwitter loses ability to let users auto-post tweets & retweets to FacebookQuka / Shutterstock.com Yesterday, Facebook announced it had deprecated its Publish actions permissions from its API, a feature that made...
Fahad HAug 1, 20182 min readFacebook cuts off access to API platform for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive appsRokas Tenys / Shutterstock.com Facebook reports it has cut off access to its API platform for hundreds of thousands of inactive apps that...
Fahad HAug 1, 20182 min readFacebook & Instagram introduce new user tools to track time spent on the apps“It’s our responsibility to talk openly about how time online impacts people — and we take that responsibility seriously. These new tools...
Fahad HJul 27, 20184 min readAs Facebook user and revenue growth slows in Q2, advertisers are still on boardIt’s been a bruising year for Facebook public relations. Now, its second quarter earnings report of 2018, released on Wednesday, showed...
Fahad HJul 16, 20183 min readFacebook says ‘tens of thousands’ of people opt in to take its user surveys every weekIn a blog post explaining ways in which it collects user feedback, Facebook says that tens of thousands of its users opt in to take the...
Fahad HJul 5, 20183 min readFacebook’s automated systems to monitor political advertisers are blocking the wrong adsSince the advent of the ad and data-related scandals plaguing Facebook — including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the emergence of...
Fahad HJul 3, 20182 min readFacebook reminds developers deadline for app reviews is less than a month awayFacebook is reminding developers that in order to keep access to a number of APIs, the app review deadline is August 1. Developers...
Fahad HJul 3, 20182 min readInstagram signs on to the time well spent movement with new ‘You’re all caught up’Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making good on his assurance that he wants to be part of the time well spent movement, but instead of...
Fahad HJul 2, 20182 min readFacebook alerts 800K users that people they’d blocked may have been unblocked the 1st week of For the second time in less than a month, Facebook is having to alert users that their accounts may have been negatively impacted because...
Fahad HJul 2, 20182 min readApps must now pass review process before getting access to Facebook’s Marketing APIFacebook announced a new list of updates to its app development platform today, a regular occurrence since the company suspended...
Fahad HJun 28, 20182 min readFacebook starts showing all ads a Page is runningFacebook is continuing its transparency efforts around Pages and ads, now including an “Info & Ads” section on Pages that list all ads...
Fahad HJun 22, 20182 min readFacebook’s latest data faux pas: app analytics reports sent to the wrong peopleFacebook’s data security issues have turned into a nonstop game of whack-a-mole. After having to alert 14 million users that their...
Fahad HJun 21, 20182 min readFacebook takes fight against fake news to more countries & ups machine learning efforts around Facebook is continuing its efforts to fight fake news and stop the spread of false information on the platform. Today, the company...
Fahad HJun 15, 20183 min readFacebook’s head of communications & public policy is leaving the companyFacebook’s head of communication and policy, Elliot Schrage, is resigning after leading the company’s communications and policy teams for...
Fahad HJun 7, 20182 min readFacebook says privacy settings for 14M users were switched to public due to bugIf you’re keeping a list of Facebook apologies for 2018, you can now add “apologizes for accidentally setting 14 million users privacy...
