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Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Byjamessthephen

Post Views: 327 “These kinds of name changes have always been a part of the technology landscape,” says linguist Anthony Shore, founder of naming company Operative Words. “Anytime companies outgrow and diversify from where they were, it makes it likely that they will have to change their original name, or the name of their holding…

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Can I offer you a nice meme in these trying times?

Byjamessthephen

Post Views: 818 Myrick, a professor of communications at Pennsylvania State University, started thinking about how memes about this stressful time period were percolating through the internet and our collective consciousness. She and her colleagues set up an experiment to study whether these pandemic memes helped us cope with stress during quarantine—and their results were…

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How to delete Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp—and take your data with you

Byammierai2609

Post Views: 290 So much has happened with Facebook lately that it’s hard to keep track. Since Frances Haugen, a former data scientist for the company, made public thousands of documents (known now as The Facebook Papers) and addressed a Senate subcommittee at the beginning of October, the world has been privy to more and…

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Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

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Post Views: 290 It also means that the company will report on their business as two different operating segments: one for their family of apps, and one for their work on future platforms (Reality Labs will be the name for that segment). The company intends to trade under a new stock ticker, MVRS, starting December…

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Facebook archived more than a billion user faces. Now it’s deleting them.

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Post Views: 282 On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it was ending its Face Recognition system on the app and rolling back the technology in the coming weeks. In a press release, Jerome Pesenti, VP of artificial intelligence at Meta (the new name for Facebook’s parent company), said that the shutting down of the Face Recognition…

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Despite Restrictions, Recreational Cannabis Companies Use Marketing That Appeals to Adolescents: Study

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Post Views: 314 Many recreational cannabis companies market their products in a way that appeals to children and teens, flouting state regulations, according to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. This marketing is easily viewed by people of all ages on social media. “I had expected that cannabis companies…

Facebook is making a big change in how it serves ads

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Post Views: 302 According to the Facebook for Business help center, detailed targeting allows organizations to “refine” the audience of users that Facebook shows their ads to based on demographics, interests, and behaviors. This follows another recent privacy-related change Meta made when it announced last week that it was deleting Facebook’s massive archive of user…