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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. May 30, 2018.

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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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Gartner: fake social media reviews

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With over half of the Internet’s population on social networks, organizations are scrambling for new ways to build bigger follower bases, generate more hits on videos, garner more positive reviews than their competitors and solicit ‘likes’ on their Facebook pages,” said Jenny Sussin, senior research analyst at Gartner.

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Embarrassing updates in social media

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” The site attracted more than 100,000 visitors in the first 27 hours of its launch. No information is posted that hasn’t been published by the social media users themselves. There’s a feature which which allows anyone highlighted on the site to request the removal of their post. But there is a fix.

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March 28: this week in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

Mentioned on Mashable this week, Facebook has started testing threaded comments on the Web version of the social network. That's the promise from social networking web site LinkedIn with its revamped search capabilities. 5 Ways to Implement Social Media in the Office. Smarter search. Related articles.

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Facebook news today

Sherrilynne Starkie

The social network has today agreed to add gender-based hate to its list of unacceptable content and has committed to ridding its site of it and is updating its guidelines to training moderators. It’d be a big undertaking for the social network that could take a while to come to fruition.

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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.

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