Social Media TikTok Pledges $250 Million to Support Various Groups Impacted by COVID-19 Rising video app TikTok has announced a new $250 million donation to assist frontline workers combating COVID-19, which comes in addition to the app’s $10 million donation to the World Health Organization, which it announced last month. For the full article click here Facebook Adds New […]
Social Media Instagram Launches New ‘I Stay Home For’ Sticker to Promote COVID-19 Containment Efforts With the rising popularity of Instagram Stories, and the propensity for people to add stickers and effects to their Stories frames, Instagram’s cause-based stickers must be having some impact. This week, Instagram has launched a new cause sticker for Stories which aims to […]
Social Media WhatsApp Implements New Restrictions on Message Forwarding to Limit the Spread of Misinformation WhatsApp has announced a new restriction on message forwarding as it seeks to combat the rise of misinformation campaigns flowing through the app. For the full article click here Facebook Adds New Tools for Groups to Help Ensure Members Are Getting Accurate […]
Social Media Digital Data Tracking and Privacy: The Future Implications of COVID-19 YouTube has confirmed that it will reduce the recommendation and distribution of videos which promote conspiracy theories that link the spread of COVID-19 to 5G technology. This comes after a spate of attacks on cell phone towers in some regions – according to The Guardian in […]
Social Media YouTube Moves to Restrict Videos About COVID-19/5G Conspiracy Theory Over the past few weeks, both Google and Facebook have begun sharing location-tracking information with various authorities around the world in order to help them plan their COVID-19 containment strategies, and better ensure that they’re addressing key areas of concern. The data provided is anonymized and aggregated, […]
Social Media Facebook Adds Gift Card Discovery Tool, Service Impact Listings to Help Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 Facebook is rolling out some new measures to assist businesses dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 shutdowns, including more specific detail on its $100 million small business grant program, and new tools that will enable people to support local […]
Social Media YouTube is Working on a TikTok-Like Tool to Fend Off Rising Video Competition Replication is normally Facebook’s key mitigation tactic, but increasingly, YouTube is also looking to “borrow” inspiration from its rivals in order to fend off competition, and maximize its market share within the video space. This week, The Information has reported that […]
Social Media Facebook Publishes New Guides to Help Businesses Deal With the Impacts of COVID-19 It feels like such a long time ago that Facebook was providing guidance for businesses impacted by major bushfires across Australia, and now, The Social Network has published a new set of guides to help businesses dealing with the latest major event – the […]
Social Media Pinterest launches Pinterest Shop for small businesses that make and sell products Pinterest has launched Pinterest Shop – a new dashboard curated by Pinterest that showcases the profiles and products of small businesses in an Etsy-style fashion. Shop currently includes 17 different small businesses that make and sell unique goods and have uploaded […]
Social Media Facebook’s Testing a New ‘Favorites’ Friend Listing for Facebook Stories Facebook is reportedly testing out a new option which would enable users to share their Facebook and Messenger Stories with smaller, selected groups of friends, as opposed to all of their connections. The option would provide a new ‘Favorites’ list option for you […]
