Meta Cuts 13% Of Its Workforce

Tech News : Meta Cuts 13% Of Its Workforce

Meta has announced that it is laying off a masive 13 per cent of its workforce globally in re-structuring market uncertainty about the Metaverse vision.  Losses Lead To Layoffs  Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the 11,000-employee layoff from Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, after Reality Labs, the division building the metaverse,…

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Facebook Bans Deepfake Videos

Facebook bans Deepfakes

In a recent blog post, ahead of the forthcoming US election, Monika Bickert, Vice President, of Facebook’s Global Policy Management has announced that the social media giant is banning deepfakes and “all types of manipulated media”. Not Like Last Time With the 59th US presidential election scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Facebook appears to…

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Facebook’s New Tool Allows You To Port Your Photos & Videos To Google

Facebook has announced that it is releasing a data portability tool that will enable Facebook users to transfer their Facebook photos and videos directly to other services, starting with Google Photos. Why? Facebook acknowledged in its white paper (published back in September) that under GDPR currently, and under the California Consumer Privacy Act rules next…

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Your Online Ad Updates 22nd October 2019

This month finds Quora adding new targeting options, Google and Microsoft unveiling new metric functionality on their family of social media products whilst Twitter is in hot water over using the wrong emails for marketing campaigns … and more … Quora adds new targeting ‘options’ for platform advertisers Three new options – which include keyword history…

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Online Ad Updates 30th May 2019

The news this week finds Facebook unveiling its new design along with new ad simplification resources for video marketing, big changes for Google analytics and tag management and more … Facebook Is Simplifying Video Ad Buying For Digital Marketers Last year, Facebook unveiled ThruPlay. ThruPlay was a unique way in which video content could be…

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Ad Updates – 07.09.18

Here are your latest online ad updates (below) Previous articles are here : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/230818-paid-online-ad-updates-mike-knight-fcim/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/170718-paid-online-ad-updates-mike-knight-fcim/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/030718-paid-online-ad-updates-mike-knight-fcim/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paid-online-ad-updates-mike-knight-fcim/ The news this week finds Google publishing support for its new “responsive search” platform, The Drum offers unique insight into consumer attitudes and the importance of ad view duration timescales, The NY Times argues Amazon will be the…

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Facebook Kills The Admiral’s Plan

A request by insurance company Admiral to trial a scheme whereby the contents of the Facebook profiles of young drivers would be used in order to judge their safety as drivers (and thereby influence their insurance premiums) has been given the thumbs down by Facebook. Judged on Posts and Likes. Admiral’s idea for the trial…

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