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Facebook’s fake news battle in Canada

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook Canada has launched a new fact-checking program aimed at helping combat fake news from spreading. . The initiative is a collaboration with Agence France-Presse (AFP) whose Canada-based fact-checkers will review news stories on Facebook in English and French and rate their accuracy. Fact-checking stories.

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How To Remove the Yahoo! News, Washington Post or Spotify Notifications From Your Facebook Ticker

SocMed Sean

News, Spotify, and the Washington Post are pushing articles into your Facebook timeline, there is a quick way to get rid of them. News, the Post or Spotify. News application page go to https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=90376669494 News also block this application https://www.facebook.com/a pps/application.php?id=194

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Facebook News Feed Changes. Stay Calm. Don’t Panic.

yMarketingMatters

#Facebook News Feed Changes. 7 tips to improve your chances of your followers seeing your posts [link] Click To Tweet Now that it’s been over three weeks since the announcements from Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s News Feed algorithm changes, I hope everyone has calmed down a little. This goes into the News Feed. #7

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Monday Social Media News Roundup: Week of October 23rd

Buffer Social

Supporting News Organizations with Shorts YouTube is allocating $1.6 million to assist over 30 news organizations across 10 countries in creating Shorts, enriching the platform's news content. Explore YouTube Shorts as a fresh avenue for news consumption or sharing. Read more That's it for updates!

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Launches New Profile Design and Buys Android App Cover

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and Reddit: Facebook. Twitter tests notifications in your web browser – Twitter is testing a new feature that will allow users to receive notifications on their web browser (TechCrunch).

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Looking to take a break from LinkedIn? Here are some great ways to do it

SocMed Sean

Another option for keeping your LinkedIn but giving yourself some distance from it is to deactivate only certain features of the app, like notifications, while continuing to use LinkedIn’s core functionality. Deactivating LinkedIn notifications without deactivating LinkedIn. Head to the How you get your notifications.

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8 Best Google Alerts Alternatives For Brand Mentions And Industry News

Keyhole.co

While Google Alerts primarily covers news articles online, some of the paid tools can track crisis on social media platforms. Keyhole offers social media listening and analytics for top social media platforms and other online media sources, like news, forums, blogs, etc., And you’ll get the notifications you want when you want them.