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Facebook will allow users in Australia to read and share news on the social media platform again following negotiations with the Australian government, according to Australia’s treasurer Josh Frydenberg and representatives from Facebook. Who blinked first? That’s a matter of interpretation, it would seem.
Facebook, which along with Google accounts for around 60% of advertiser spending online, has knowingly built some of its astonishing success on incorrect data, newly unsealed court documents allege. Incidentally, this may pose a problem for a business which generates over 90% of its revenue from selling ads.
Read more about Facebook to let researchers access election ad data from Feb 1 on Business Standard. Facebook will let researchers access the targeting information for more than 1.3 million social issue, electoral and political ads through the Facebook Open Research and Transparency platform
Photo: Josh Edelson (Getty Images) To head off a potential encore of last week’s violent insurrection, Facebook is blocking users from creating new Facebook events in the vicinity of the White House, the U.S. Capitol building, and any state capitol buildings through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. It’s also restricting features for U.S. users based on certain indicators such as repeated policy violations. Advertisement These measures are intended to keep people from potentiallyusing the platform to incite violence, Facebook said Friday in an updated company blog po...
Matthew Schniper I last hit Mariaâs in the fall of 2019 and had no plans to return so soon to review. But I fell prey to a Facebook post (thank you almighty algorithm) promoting a new item: the birria quesapizza. What the hell is that!? Itâs not even a word! Itâs a culinary portmanteau and the photo looks gorgeous â a hypnotizing swirl of queso atop an oversized toasted tortilla round. I had to investigate, and promptly ordered one for pickup (call-ahead, pre-pay, $35.99, which fed four of us). I learn the staff âstoleâ the idea f...