Is Apple really costing Facebook billions?
SUMMARY: Apple’s decision to change the privacy settings of iPhones caused an estimated $9.85bn of revenues to evaporate in the second half of this year at Snap, Facebook, Twitter and …
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Facebook continually lies and spreads misinformation but users are addicted
SUMMARY: Consumers, often in polls, say they want responsible brands and brands that share their values, but that’s largely bullshit. How do you, for example, explain Facebook’s repeated lying and …
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Is facebook killing people? The answer is more complicated.
SUMMARY: President Biden said Facebook is killing people, but that’s only partly true. Facebook’s record of trekking the truth is spotty at best. Facebook repeatedly lied about the reach of …
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The online ad market is ready to implode
SKIMMERS SUMMARY: The real trouble with digital advertising is that most of it doesn’t work. Display ads are usually reported to have an overall click rate of about five clicks …
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It’s time to reign Facebook in
KEY POINTS: Facebook likes comments and shares of articles from news outlets that regularly publish falsehoods and misleading content roughly tripled from the third quarter of 2016 to the third …
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Apple vs. Facebook. Part II
SUMMARY: Zuck says that Apple is emerging as a huge competitor while Tim Cook blames Facebook for sparking the violence in right-wing hate groups. The gloves are coming off.
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Its war! Facebook vs. Apple
WHAT THE?: “Together, we must send a universal, humanistic response to those who claim a right to users’ private information about what should not and will not be tolerated,” Tim …
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Social media is getting too close to the fire
SUMMARY: Facebook and Twitter face a decade-long reckoning over their role in the US’s political upheaval as well as the spread of false and fake information. Social media platforms have …
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Media buyers predict double-digit online ad spending increases
SUMMARY: Global digital advertising growth is expected to accelerate to about 18% year-over-year during 2021, up from about 10% growth in 2020 — and continue to show annual growth in …
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TV ads need more accountability
FACT: It has been projected that U.S. television advertising revenue will total 71 billion U.S. dollars, while by 2022 the forecasts see a modest increase to 74.9 billion U.S. dollars. When it …
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