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"Video meetings. While the move to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic may have made them mainstream, they are not without issues and more and more people are now opting out. For good reason. As it turns out, it’s really hard for our brains to s

"When we ask people what kind of news they want to see on Facebook, they continually tell us they want news stories that are credible and informative. Today, we’re updating the way news stories are ranked in News Feed to prioritize original reporting

"Two years ago, we launched News Consumer Insights (NCI) to try to solve a common industry challenge: News organizations were swamped with data. Our news partners big and small, national and local, shared a need to identify the metrics that actually

IAB Europe in partnership with IAB France are pleased to announce the launch of a new joint initiative ‘The Post Third-Party Cookie Taskforce’. This follows on from IAB Europe’s recent release of ‘The Post Third-Party Cookie Era Guide, to prepare bra

While another crisis has threatened to disrupt the media market  Ring Publishing wants media companies to #BuildResilience.

They are offering a leading SaaS Publishing platform for free for 6 months to publishers committed to digital transformation t

'Criteo on Wednesday launched a self-serve ad platform for its retail media network.
The platform connects demand from brands directly to supply from retailers across Criteo’s network, said Geoffroy Martin, EVP and GM of retail media at Criteo. Previ

The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users, then largely shelved the research

A Facebook Inc. team had a blunt message for senior executives. The company’s algorithms weren’t bringing people together. They were driving people ap

'Facebook is announcing a handful of new features that will allow users to show their support for small businesses and get the latest updates as those businesses deal with the fallout — economic and otherwise — of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The social ne

'Google today launched an update to its Duo video chat app (which you definitely shouldn’t confuse with Hangouts or Google Meet, Google’s other video, audio and text chat apps).
There are plenty of jokes to be made about Google’s plethora of chat opt

Amazon has anounced that it is trialing a new screening process through video conferening to prevent ingenuine third party sellers from trading.

This is a part of a series of seller-verification steps that the prominent shopping platform uses to overc

WhatsApp says they have seen a 70% drop in "highly forwarded" messages - the kind that may spread false information about the pandemic.

The World Health Organization has said the spread of fake news about the outbreak is an "info-demic".

"Two weeks ag

Publishers are getting new offerings to readers and advertisers in days instead of not weeks.

The Coronavirus has cornered the media industry to re-think how much time it takes to build, test and collect data before releasing a new product for readers

Snapchat has become the go-to ad platform for direct-response advertising.

The social media platform has more than doubled in revenue and now makes more than half of the company's total revenue.

The app's parent company, Snap, reported a total review o

'There is a conspiracy theory that claims 5G is connected to the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19). This is wrong. There is no scientific basis or credible evidence for these claims.'

Ofcom regularly measures and publish data from their spectrum m

YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely connecting coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks.

The Google-owned service will now take down videos breaching the policy. It had previously limited itself to reducing the frequency it recommended

As people around the world stay at home to prevent COVID-19 from spreading. And while this lockdown has put a hold on live events, it has also given new life to virtual ones through services like Facebook Live. 

Facebook Live became a symbol of publis

In the past, large tech companies have been accused of being the cause of the spread of fake news by not monitoring whether the posts and advertistments are genuine. on the plus side, the current environment has forced tech giants to take on more res