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Traffic Rises 350% Year-Over-Year For Social Publisher BuzzFeed

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Calling itself “the social news and entertainment company,” BuzzFeed demonstrated last month that whatever the publisher’s formula may be, it’s working. A recent shift in Facebook’s algorithm has helped drive traffic to major publishers , and BuzzFeed is seeing some serious benefits from the change.

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EMBARGOED: Simple Interventions Can Help People Spot False Headlines

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But helping people identify nefarious information online might be possible through inexpensive digital-media literacy outreach, according to a Princeton University-led study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay. ET in PNAS.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches FB Newswire, Acquires Motion Tracking App Moves

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Twitter says native ads will be available to all MoPub publishers tomorrow – blog posts from both MoPub and Twitter announced that native ads will now be available for all MoPub publishers (TechCrunch).

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Adds Photo Tagging, Facebook Acquires Oculus VR

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Related Stories Social Media News Ticker: Facebook To Buy WhatsApp, LinkedIn Opens Publishing To All Members Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Launches #FirstTweet, Facebook Paper Teams With TED Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches 15-Second Auto-Play Video Ads. Any social media updates that we missed?

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Social Media News Ticker: Instagram Direct, Twitter Mirror and Photos in DMs

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Twitter MoPub opens up native advertising – Twitter’s mobile advertising exchange is now allowing its thousands of mobile app publishers to use native advertising (WSJ). Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: Facebook.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Buy’ Button, Twitter Acquires CardSpring

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Twitter snaps up CardSpring, a platform for helping developers connect apps with consumers’ credit cards – Twitter has acquired payments infrastructure company CardSpring; Twitter describes the tool as helping “merchants work with leading publishers to create online-to-offline promotions” (The Next Web).

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Email is Dead, Twitter’s Amplify Now on Movie Screens

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Related Stories Social Media News Ticker: Facebook To Buy WhatsApp, LinkedIn Opens Publishing To All Members Social Media News Ticker: Edit Your Facebook ‘Look Back,’ LinkedIn Kills ‘Intro,’ Twitter Debuts Data Grant Program Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Redesign, Facebook Adds Custom Gender Options.

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