
Facebook will ban all ads promoting cryptocurrency
Facebook is willing to take a hit to its wallet to make sure its users don’t. Facebook will ban all ads promoting cryptocurrency in an...

Educators, doctors and kid advocates call on Facebook to end ‘Messenger Kids’
Facebook was well-intentioned when it launched its Messenger Kids app for children under 13 last year. It’s ad-free, designed to be...

Facebook will prioritize local news while still de-prioritizing news overall
Weeks after Facebook announced that it would de-prioritize news from publishers in people’s News Feeds, the company continues to announce...

Facebook updates branded content policy to clarify what qualifies as content
Two years after Facebook dropped its branded content restrictions and rolled out a branded content tagging system, the number of organic...

Facebook CMO Gary Briggs is retiring
Facebook is losing its marketing boss at an inopportune time for its brand. Facebook CMO Gary Briggs is retiring more than four years...

News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch calls (again) for payments from Silicon Valley
News Corp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch has long been critical of Google and online content aggregators in general. He sees them as...

Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution is to solve Facebook’s issues
New Year’s resolutions typically adhere to some form of self-improvement. People pledge to stop smoking, stop drinking soda, stop...

Facebook could prevent age-discriminating job ads if it wanted to
The ways in which Facebook’s advertising tools can be misused — and the fact that Facebook doesn’t guard them against such misuse —...

Facebook will no longer flag fake news link with ‘Disputed’ label
Facebook’s effort to combat fake news isn’t working. So the company is trying a different tact. Almost exactly a year ago Facebook...

Facebook begins using face recognition tech to help users better manage their identity on the platfo
Facebook announced today that it will be using face recognition technology to help users manage their identity on the platform by letting...

Facebook announces 6-second pre-roll ad test, new mid-roll ad restrictions
Facebook will begin testing a six-second pre-roll ads hub next year, the company announced on Thursday, confirming earlier reports....

Facebook’s pre-roll ad test will only run in Watch, not News Feed
Despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s long-held stance against pre-empting videos with advertising, Facebook plans to test out pre-roll...

Instagram’s business profiles are being used by more than 25 million marketers
More businesses are looking to do business through Instagram. More than 25 million marketers have switched their Instagram accounts to...

Facebook halts advertisers from using targeting to exclude racial groups
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: Facebook is disabling some ad-targeting options because it’s been revealed how those those...

Facebook outlines its advertising principles to show it has them
Over the past year, Facebook’s advertising business has been derided for many reasons. For being used by Russian entities to attempt to...

Instagram opens sponsor-tagging tool to more creators, adds monitoring system
As the Federal Trade Commission begins to crack down on creators for improper branded-content disclosures, Instagram wants to keep its...

Facebook refunds advertisers for mobile video ads played out of view
Facebook has informed advertisers that the company has discovered two new measurement errors. The latest errors mark the 11th and 12th...

Facebook’s ad revenue tops $10.1B as ad prices soar to offset supply slowdown
Neither political controversies nor measurement mishaps nor its own execs’ warnings have slowed Facebook’s advertising machine. Before...

Facebook will show all the ads a Page is running & archive US federal election ads
Twitter isn’t the only social network making its ads more transparent in the wake of the Russian election ads controversy. Facebook will...
























