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Facebook announced an initial commitment of $130 million to launch its new Oversight Board, which is designed as a way for users to appeal the social giant’s content decisions, but the entity is behind schedule with initial board members to be announced in 2020. The Oversight Board — which has been dubbed Facebook’s “Supreme Court” …

Two months ago, Facebook published a white paper that sought to address some of the key issues involved in making data portable between online services. Now, Facebook has launched a tool to free media stored on the platform. The new image transfer tool will let users copy all their photos and videos from Facebook to …

A March 2019 legal settlement between civil rights groups and Facebook has consequences that are coming to light. Advertisers, including auto dealers and anyone linking to credit or APR financing offers, will suffer major changes and restrictions to the way Facebook ad targeting is done. The settlement resulted from accusations of unlawful discrimination against minorities, …

Facebook was forced to add a correction to a post after Singapore said it contained false information, presenting fresh questions about how the company will abide by government requests to regulate content. “Facebook is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says this post has false information” Facebook states. At the Government’s end, …

Ad targeting is an advertisement technique where advertisements are placed in specific areas to increase visibility and “clickability” or to give tailor-made ads based on the user’s past behaviors and preferences.  Targeted ads are meant to reach certain customers based on demographics, psychographics, behavior and other second-order activities that are learned usually through data exhaust …

It looks like new Facebook tools are coming for video creators. The announcement was made at this year’s International Broadcasting Convention (IBC). Facebook is providing Publishers with more video tools to use with Watch Party and Creator Studio. In addition to some enhancements to live video broadcasting. Facebook Live Publishers now can make use of …

Facebook announced new ways for public figures to make money off the social network, like direct merchandise sales. The update is aimed at musicians and bands, actors, athletes and authors. Facebook has also started testing a feature that will let multiple public figure accounts contribute to the same Facebook Story during an event, plus a …

Facebook Ads is one of the most used advertisement platforms out there. Thus, the news that the social network will be making changes to Facebook ad format should be treated with extreme significance. These changes will be effective starting August 19th, 2019. As explained by Facebook, the updates for mobile News Feed ads will be: …