Is Facebook the doom machine? The Social Dilemma, a new documentary-like film from Netflix, makes the case. https://youtu.be/uaaC57tcci0 One of the technologists in the film, Jaron Lanier, makes the case (in the film and in many other instances). To varying degrees, we all make our cases against F to the B. Some of us quit the platform if we can. We tolerate it if we can not. Others enjoy the …
Brighter Futures for the Ad Industry Are Possible, Following Massive Reform
Someone moved the ad industry's cheese. The various reactions from industry leaders have been slow and haphazard at best, but that's starting to change. The World Federation of Advertisers has formed the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media. “In the ancient story of the Tower of Babel, the city collapsed because its inhabitants lost the ability to speak a common language,” says Bill Tucker, Group EVP …
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Coca-Cola, Ford, Starbucks et al Halt Ad Spending on ‘All’ Social Media Platforms
In 2018, Coca-Cola launched #RefreshtheFeed giving its social media accounts a complete factory reset. Coca-Cola's new social strategy was “rooted in optimism, uplift, and connection.” Now the beverage icon is going to pause paid and organic posts on all social media platforms globally for at least 30 days, effective July 1. Chairman and CEO, James Quincey, says a dedicated cross-functional and cross-continental …
More than 100 Companies Stop Advertising on Facebook (Sort Of)
Hit pause on hate. That's the call-to-action issued on June 17, by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL. Their new Stop Hate for Profit campaign asks businesses to suspend advertising on Facebook’s services during July. The campaign’s partners, including Color of Change, Common Sense, Free Press, and Sleeping Giants, assert that the social-media …
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You Can Check In To Holiday Inn, But You Can Never Leave
Retirement doesn't come cheap if it comes at all. Almost half of Americans — 49 percent — cite running out of money as their chief retirement concern, with another 44 percent citing declining health, according to a new report from the Aegon Center for Longevity, Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies and Instituto de Longevidade Mongeral Aegon (Brazil). Only 36 percent of American workers are very confident …
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Twitter To World: Political Message Reach Should Be Earned, Not Bought
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of @Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, made some interesting Tweets today to announce Twitter's new policy that bans all political advertising from the platform. We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…? — jack ??? (@jack) October 30, 2019 Dorsey goes …
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Mark Is Responsible. Mark Is Irresponsible.
Mark Zuckerberg testified, a.k.a. whined a lot, in front of Congress this week. U.S. Representative Katie Porter from California, a law professor and graduate of Harvard Law, cross-examined the witness. She asked Mark if he cares about privacy as he claims to do, why is he arguing in federal court that consumers can't hold Facebook liable for breaches of privacy? Um, Congresswoman, I'm not a lawyer and I don't …
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Facebook’s Rogue Founder, Chris Hughes, Funds Anti-Monopoly Efforts
Do you know Mark? Mark knows you. Do you know who does know, Mark? Chris Hughes knows Mark. Hughes was there along with fellow Harvard undergrads Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, and Dustin Moskovitz when Facebook was founded in 2004. Incidentally, Adpulp was founded a few months later that same year. Because Hughes knows Mark, he is critical of Mark's choices and the unnatural powers afforded to him. …
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