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Top Five: Social Networks Take Action on Politics

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top Five: Social Networks Take Action on Politics. This week's top five social media must-know news features Facebook & Twitter's new rules for political content, Google's action on scammers, new features from Snapchat & LinkedIn. Sherrilynne Starkie. followers . Listly by Sherrilynne Starkie. Follow List.

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We don’t discuss politics on Facebook, right?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Well this advice seems to hold true according a new survey by the Pew Research Center ’s Internet & American Life Project that on social networking sites. Postings on social networking sites reveal surprises for many users when it comes to the political views of their friends. Teens tend not to tweet.

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Facebook news today

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook is cracking down on violent, sexist content in response to an open letter issued last week by Women, Action & the Media (WAM). The group demanded that Facebook add gender-based hate speech to its list of forbidden content. It’d be a big undertaking for the social network that could take a while to come to fruition.

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Is it an ad or an article? Going native!

Sherrilynne Starkie

People have a lot of trouble discerning between online native advertising and editorial content, according to a recent survey by Contently, the content marketing software company. Getting organic reach on social networks is almost impossible, as Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter and rest strive to monetize their platforms.

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Reuters, Rogers and social dashboards

Sherrilynne Starkie

Reuters has launched Social Pulse , a social media hub on Reuters.com which highlights social media’s most shared news, companies and influencers. It displays the news that is most popular in Reuters social network. Could this the start of a new trend in corporate social dashboards? Related articles.

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Does your brand take bloggers seriously?

Sherrilynne Starkie

The report reveals that among brand marketers, social spend in 2013 will increase substantially, but perhaps the budget is not being spent where impact would be the greatest. The study shows that blogs are the third among online sites most likely to influence a consumer purchasing decision, coming after retail and brand websites.

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Targeting Ottawa’s boomers

Sherrilynne Starkie

In addition, approximately half of boomers and a quarter of over 65s use social networking sites, mostly Facebook but some use Twitter too. Content marketing is king. Brands use social media for PR. Nine out of ten zoomers use Google or other search engines and almost 70 per cent actually make purchases online.

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