Elizabeth Warren Tests Facebook Advertising Rules

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Michele Neylon

Facebook and other social media platforms have been coming under scrutiny from governments and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. While there are concerns about content being shared on the various platforms that can impact political campaigns what is probably more concerning is how social networks handle political ads.

Elizabeth Warren is currently a candidate for the US Presidential elections in 2020. She posted recently on Twitter about an experiment she and her team conducted to see how Facebook would handle clearly false ads. The results are quite disturbing:

Facebook changed their ads policy to allow politicians to run ads with known lies—explicitly turning the platform into a disinformation-for-profit machine. This week, we decided to see just how far it goes.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 12, 2019

We intentionally made a Facebook ad with false claims and submitted it to Facebook’s ad platform to see if it’d be approved. It got approved quickly and the ad is now running on Facebook. Take a look: pic.twitter.com/7NQyThWHgO
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 12, 2019

Trump’s campaign is apparently spending $1 million a week on Facebook ads:

The Trump campaign is currently spending $1 million a *week* on ads including ones containing known lies—ads that TV stations refuse to air because they’re false. Facebook just takes the cash, no questions asked. https://t.co/3gDD6ILJpy
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 12, 2019

There have been calls from several governments, including some voices in the US one, to regulate Facebook and other social media platforms a lot more heavily, though it is unlikely to happen in the short term.

The upcoming US Presidential campaign will be fought, at least partially, via the social media networks and platforms.

Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Michele Neylon

The Irish Social Media Awards are being held in June in Dublin and nominations opened today.

As with other years nominations are 100% free.

This year’s categories are:

Facebook categories:

Facebook Page for a Business (Non Campaign)
Facebook Page for a Non-Profit/Organisation
Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed)
Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App, Ads

Twitter categories

Best Business Twitter account – marketing, sales
Best Business Twitter account – support, CRM
Best Business Twitter Campaign

Mobile categories

Best Mobile App (Marketing)
Best Mobile App (Events)
Best Mobile Campaign Using Social Media

SME Categories

Best Use of Social Media by an SME (new)
Best Blog of an SME

Other Categories

Best Experimental Format (Vine, Instagram, Snapchat)
Best Social Media Only Campaign (not linked to any other media)
Most Innovative Use of Social Media
Best Use of Social Media by State Body
Customer Care using Social Media (Integrated)
Best Video/Video Campaign (non broadcast)
Best Online PR Campaign
Best Use of Social Media for a Sponsorship Campaign
Social Media Effectiveness – conversions, metrics etc
Best Integrated Social Media Campaign

Full details on the event site.

If Toddlers Used Facebook

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Michele Neylon

George Takei “gets” social media and his Facebook page is probably one of the more amusing ones on Facebook.

From earlier today:

Social Network Wars Explained

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Michele Neylon

Social media networks want more users. Of course if you’re trying to grow your social network then it makes sense that you use your users’ existing connections .. So a lot of social networks tap into the data available via Twitter, Facebook and other services.

Of course by doing this they can upset each other .. end result you see social networks blocking access to each other. Sometimes it’s pretty petty, but it’s still fascinating to watch.

The guys over at Hootsuite used a Game of Thrones style analogy to visually represent what’s been going on:

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Pinterest Engagement Graphic

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Michele Neylon

Pinterest has made changes to their systems in the last couple of months that make it easier for brands and businesses to use the social network.

But what’s actually going on?

This graphic from Curalate gives some interesting insights:

Do you use Pinterest? Why? Do you like it? Hate it? Let us know in the comments!

Social Media Revealed

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Michele Neylon

A lot of the companies flogging social media services to businesses probably shouldn’t be in the business at all.

A lot of the “advice” they’re giving companies is terrible and yet they charge their clients “top dollar” for it.

(Not all of the companies operating in the space are “evil”, but a lot are)

The Onion’s recent video in the style of “Ted Talks” is brilliant and worth watching if you have any doubts about social media gurus:

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Twitter Blocks Tumblr

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Michele Neylon

Twitter’s API changes announced last week upset quite a few people. But what about its relations with other social networks and services?

The Guardian reports that Twitter has blocked Tumblr’s access to its users ie. you won’t be able to search for your Twitter contacts on Tumblr anymore.

As the various social networks buy up services that work with them you can expect to see more and more of this.

Take a look at what’s been happening with Instagram to get an idea.

Tumblr ‘Truly Disappointed’ That Twitter Revoked Its Friend-Finding Privileges (techcrunch.com)
Twitter v Tumblr: neutron bomb approach? (guardian.co.uk)

Twitter Goes Offline

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Michele Neylon

Twitter has been offline for the last 30 minutes.

It’s not even showing the (in)famous “fail whale” at the moment!

So you can expect to see a surge of traffic to Facebook and Google+ 🙂

Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Michele Neylon

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Last weekend the news broke that Facebook was acquiring Instagram for $1 billion. Needless to say the tech news circles were buzzing with this announcement all week.

According to an article on TheNextWeb Twitter had also tried to acquire them, but failed.

And others suggest that Google may have been trying to acquire them ..

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