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Facebook's 'ethnic affinity' advertising sparks concerns of racial profiling
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 22.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook
Summary | Facebook's new feature called “racial affinity" allows marketers to taget specific groups. The feature allows advertisers to categorize users in terms of their interests, but it also categorizes them in terms of related racial groups. The tool is only available in the US and is seen as a tool allowing advertisers to segregate by race.
Image Description | Screenshot of the movie Straight Outta Compton.
Image Tags | male(s)
Facebook granted patent for post-scanning software that identifies slang before it becomes popular
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 9.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, word/writing
Summary | Facebook has been granted a patent for a software that can identify users' new words and slang. Facebook wants to identify those new "cool" words before they become popular and create a glossary of those terms.
Image Description | Hand holding a smartphone displaying the Facebook app, photograph of man's face (nose and mouth), and diagram showing how the new software would work
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Facebook's new feature translates your post into different languages depending on who's reading it
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 4.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, translation
Summary | Facebook's latest update allows you to translate posts in foreign languages. You can also select the option "post in multiple languages" if you want your post to be seen in different languages.
Image Description | Screenshot of a post in English, French, and Spanish, photograph of a hand holding a smartphone, photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the Facebook app
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), smartphone
How men and women differ on Facebook
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 2.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | On Facebook, men seem to be more interested in sports, music, and politics. Although "husband" is the word most commonly used by women on the social network, "wife" is not the word most commonly used by men. The language used by men and women on Facebook seems to fit gender stereotypes.
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Facebook already runs your life. Now it is launching a social network for the office
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 10.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | Facebook has already conquered a lot of areas of our lives, but the office is not one of them. However, Facebook just unveiled a new version of Facebook designed entirely for the office. Workers will be able to update their status, post photos and videos, like and comment on posts and chat with co-workers. The goal of the platform is not to kill emails, but eventually that's what might happen.
Image Description | Image of a tablet screen displaying Facebook's "Workplace", schema displaying details of the new platform, iPhone screen displaying a Facebook post, and portrait of Julien Codorniou.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s), smartphone, tablet
How Facebook plans to take over the world
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, virtual reality
Summary | Facebook has been constantly evolving to adapting to current trends. The first stage was "personal"; people would share their thoughts and status. The second stage was pictures, and now it's "instant articles". Facebook has a great capacity for transformation. Facebook also tried to be a news industry, and also set its sights on services such as bookmarking, 360-degree video, customer service robots, payments and virtual reality. Facebook's stage 4 is live video, and stages 5 and 6 might be artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Image Description | Four photographs of Mark Zuckerberg at conferences, and photograph of attendees at a conference
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Please, Facebook, don't make me speak to your awful chatbots
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 29.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Chatbots are the future! Soon, you'll be able to do everything thanks to chatbots (e.g. order a pizza, schedule a meeting). With Facebook, the idea is to introduce third-party bots into Messenger. Existing chatbots are not perfect yet; they are still slow and don't always understand everything. Facebook's goal is to create something flawless, a platform for your phone where you'll be able to book a table, pay a bill, order a cab, check the weather, and manage your relationships.
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg speaking in front of a giant screen displaying the Messenger platform, photograph of engineer Charles Lawson lighting a robot's cigarette, screenshot of a tweet, photograph of a smartphone screen displaying WeChat.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone, text, Twitter
The Week in Tech: The Next Big Thing, According to Mark Zuckerberg
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, research/study, smartphone, texting, virtual reality
Summary | Facebook is already huge: more than three times as many messages are transmitted over Facebook Messenger than SMS messages at its peak. But Facebook is also hugely significant as a video platform and they are investing much of their resources in developing virtual reality. Apparently, Zuckerberg believes that VR is the next big platform after the smartphone. They are even working with anthropologists to make the body language VR avatars more realistic.
Image Description | An image of Zuckerberg doing a presentation with VR goggles projected behind him.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Facebook wants to kill off the phone number in 2016: Claims system is from the 'flip phone era' as it reveals Messenger now has more than 800 MILLION users
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, texting
Summary | More than 800 million people use Facebook Messenger. Facebook wants to 'kill off the phone number' and attract even more users thanks to more features. Texting and SMS were flip phone communication styles. Now we can do much more with our smartphones, and new communication styles are appearing. With Messenger, Yes, you can text, send stickers, photos, videos, voice clips, GIFs, and even money to people. You can call people and you don't even need to know people's phone numbers anymore. Facebook also wants to introduce its digital virtual assistant called "M" into Messenger
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg, chart displaying Messenger statistics, illustrations of two smartphones displaying a conversation with "M", and photograph of a finger touching a screen displaying several icons.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, male(s), smartphone, text
The Week in Tech: Facebook Live, a More Civil Reddit and Yahoo’s Odd Deal-Making
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 9.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, marketing, politeness, Twitter
Summary | Reddit has for the first time in its existence enabled users to block other users from commenting. This enables censorship of less desirable opinions. Twitter landed the exclusive deal to live stream a football game on their platform, a deal Facebook was initially after since they are better known for their LiveStream service than Twitter. This is a high-profile marketing campaign for Twitter. Also, Yahoo is trying to sell itself.
Image Description | An image of a smartphone showing a livestreamed interview.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
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