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The New York Times has had many fine hours in its long life but one of its finest may turn out to be its crusade (can you say crusade these days?) for truth in the social media-driven era of fake ...

First is was Facebook, now it’s Twitter and other social media for many big advertisers. The Facebook ad boycott is still growing apace – Unilever, Levi’s – while other advertisers -including Diageo and Starbucks – are pulling their ads from ...

There’s an interesting class action lawsuit under way in America (no, don’t stop reading already) with a small business filing that Facebook personnel have known for years that its so-called potential reach metric is “inflated and misleading.” And that top ...

Facebook Groups are supposed to be the new big thing from the Zuckerberg dream factory, bringing people together with similar interests (I think.) $11.2m was lavished on the airtime for this Super Bowl launch effort from Wieden+Kennedy, majoring on ‘rock’ ...

Whether or not you see the decade from 2010 to 2019 as good or bad (or dreadful) depends on where you’re sitting. If it’s at Facebook or Google it was good almost beyond belief as they hoovered up the lion’s ...

Interbrand has revealed its Best Global Brands for the 20th year with (somewhat depressingly) Apple ($234bn, below), Google and Amazon occupying their customary top three places. Others in the top ten are Microsoft at 4, Coca-Cola 5, Samsung 6, Toyota ...

Facebook is running a nice ‘Privacy is Personal’ campaign by Possible, good because it’s clear, understated and human. Privacy issues continue to dog Facebook – and rivals like Twitter and Google – and will no doubt continue to do so ...

We all know that Facebook is watching us somehow or other, even if we don’t use it. Now anyone can play at Mark Zuckerberg, with the Facebook Portal, a sort of combo between permanent Skype and iPad. A few glitches ...

Last month Twitter rolled out a new video ad bidding option. It allows advertisers and marketers to run videos of 15 seconds or shorter, but they’ll only be charged if the user watches the ad for a full six seconds. ...