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Meta's Launching Sassy Chatbots, Instagram Creates AI Stickers, And Twitter Axes Misinformation Reports: Monday Social Media News Roundup

Buffer Social

Despite its struggles to retain users, The Verge reports that reads could still catch up to Twitter/X. Twitter removed the feature allowing users to report misleading information. Twitter announces the shutdown of ‘Circles’ as of October 31st. Monetization Dynamics Will Twitter Charge Users?:

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Top Five: Finally some good news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s top 5 must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals see a lot of good work by both Google and Facebook in the effort to improve the quality of news and reporting. Google to tell us the good news for once. A new feature is rolling out on Google Assistant. Not so much.

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How Twitter & Facebook are making social media ads more transparent

Sherrilynne Starkie

Fake news is nothing new (think of the National Enquirer founded in 1926), but with last year’s Brexit and US election votes, it’s certainly become more sinister. Fake news today, is not “Hillary Clinton Adopts Alien Baby’ type stories. Facebook announced it’s testing new ‘Trust Indicators’. And it’s a big problem.

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Eight Common Twitter Issues And Steps To Resolve Them

SocMed Sean

Shortly after its 2016 launch, Twitter began to make history. As one of the most popular social media sites, Twitter’s format of giving users the ability to post short messages was fairly novel at the time and has since been adopted in various forms by many other social media sites. Twitter Won’t Load At All.

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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. Glad to see these priorities.

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Twitter Shares New Insights into the Role that Tweets Play in the Broader News Ecosystem

Social Media Today

Twitter plays a bigger role in the information ecosystem than is user counts might suggest.

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Stop Reading the News

Ari Herzog

This is what Thoreau wrote in 1854: I don’t learn anything in the news. Instead, I visit Twitter and Reddit and peruse the trending topics. If something interests me, I click to read more information. I’ve observed over the years that “breaking news” tends to be sensationalist and non-informative.

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