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A recent Congressional hearing revealed that Facebook’s policies regarding fake news and posts that encourage violence need to be revamped. Now the social media giant is finally taking steps that will allow the platform to take down hateful and violence-inciting posts....

Instagram has just hit one of its most crucial milestone – one billion users. The news came on the heels of the company’s launch of IGTV or Instagram Television, a long-form video format that takes aim at rival YouTube. It seemed inevitable that Instagram would hit the 1...

Online and offline brand conversations occur in two vastly different ecosystems. The conventional thinking is that social media conversations about brands are representative of broader consumer sentiment in the overall market. However, new research from Engagement Labs finds...

Kayvon Beykpour, the co-founder of Twitter’s Periscope video app, will head up the company’s product team. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced a major company reorg yesterday, tapping Periscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour to head products and Mike Montano to lead the...

Instagram has just hit one of its most crucial milestone – one billion users. The news came on the heels of the company’s launch of IGTV or Instagram Television, a long-form video format that takes aim at rival YouTube. It seemed inevitable that Instagram would hit the 1...

After banning promotions around binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency in January, Facebook is now allowing cryptocurrency ads. Facebook is now allowing ads promoting cryptocurrency and related products, reversing a decision it made in January to prohibit such...

Aiming to design a more YouTube-like landscape for creators, Facebook is broadening its video options and opening the door to Watch. Facebook is expanding its video offerings for creators and publishers, giving more of them access to revenue opportunities, launching new...

A Facebook spokesperson says they’re in the ‘beginning stages’ of placing video ads in Messenger. After introducing static ads into Messenger last year, Facebook is starting to run autoplay video ads on its messaging app. “We’re in the beginning stages of...

The company announced a number of new initiatives to stop the spread of misinformation on the platform. Facebook is continuing its efforts to fight fake news and stop the spread of false information on the platform. Today, the company announced a number of new initiatives to...

Twitter’s in-stream video ads, launched in April 2017, are now available to all advertisers in the US and 11 other global markets. Twitter is opening in-stream video ads to all advertisers via its self-serve ad tool, making the video ad product available in 12 global...