The Psychology of Fake News: How Disinformation Spreads Online
Social Media Today
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
Fake news is a social problem, which won’t be resolved quickly. Here's an overview of why, and how, the issue is growing in the modern age.
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Sweepstakes: An Overview. The good news is, you can alleviate this problem by offering a prize category that only people who share are eligible for. Video: Social Media Promotions: An Overview Of Sweepstakes. Promotions can include sweepstakes, photo, video, and essay contests. Grab a coffee and sit back.
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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News
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Facebook has released its latest overview of the most viewed content on its platform - which is not all political news and misinformation.
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Social Media News #Australia March 15th 2021 – Facebook drops Page Likes for political figures
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News Organizations on Google+: Which Pages Get the Most Engagement?
Adam Sherk
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News organizations (along with businesses of all kinds) have been able to create official Google+ pages for a couple months now so I thought I’d check in and see how their pages are doing. Normally in posts like Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Breaking News 19.34 NBC News 28.47 BBC News 21.06
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Infographic: A decade of social media
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Engadget is one of the most respected and influential online sources of news and information about technology and the Internet. Since it was launched 10 years ago, Engadget has been updated daily and continues to covers a lot more than just ‘gadgets’; it gives a broad overview of technology industry news, including social media.
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The Top News Sites on Blekko
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TikTok Analytics Defined for Brands and Marketers
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Videos Your Followers Watched: Overview of content that is most popular with your followers. Organic Content: When you first access this overview tab you’ll be presented with a top-line view of total content views from the past 7 days. Location: Where your followers are from, ranked by country. Subscribe to Social You Should Know.
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TikTok Promotion: Boost your visibility in 2024
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Do People Search for “Breaking News”?
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Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites.
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Do People Search for “Breaking News”?
Adam Sherk
JUNE 9, 2009
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I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google
Adam Sherk
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
I’d actually like to see this happen…it would make for an interesting case study demonstrating that the only one hurt by such a deal is News Corp itself. Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites. – If You de-Index Will They Still Come? Google-less?
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Quality Traffic Test #2: The Impact of Meta Ads Placement
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