Meta is shifting the focus of its NPE team to historically overlooked communities and broadening its scope outside of the U.S. NPE stands for New Product Experimentation, and the team was established in July 2019 to create and test new consumer-focused applications and features. Meta head of NPE Ime Archibong explained in a blog post...
The holiday season is upon us and as usual, the Grinch does not want any part of it. Don't worry, the Mean One won't be stealing Christmas this year. Instead, he's taking off this season and offering his cave as a vacation rental for holiday travelers. Vacation rental platform Vacasa and Dr. Seuss Enterprises have...
TikTok debuted a refreshed Transparency Center that will be the home for all of its transparency reports, old and new. The video creation platform said reports will be published in 26 languages: Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Bengali, Burmese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai,...
This year promised a return to normalcy, but like many expectations for 2021, social marketing for commerce's busiest days of the year was not out of the 2010's playbook. Brands advertising around Black Friday and Cyber Monday had to spend more to reach the same customers in an inflationary environment, relied less on targeting in...
Twitter detailed the next steps it will take to provide expanded transparency about content moderation actions on its platform. Legal, policy and trust and safety lead Vijaya Gadde and head of site integrity Yoel Roth said in a blog post that the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium will debut early next year, bringing together a global...
The Christmas and New Year period is one of the most dangerous times of year for drunk driving collisions. But, problematically, risk perception of drunk driving has fallen among young male drivers over the past year. To combat this issue, the U.K.'s Department for Transport has brought back its long-running Think! road safety campaign with...
It's no secret that the nature of the U.S. workforce is rapidly evolving. There is increasing pressure from constant and accelerating change, combined with talent migration dynamics unlike anything we've seen before, and it has created a reckoning as companies must reconsider how work happens in order to compete for the best and brightest talent....
Meta is expanding access to its Facebook Protect extra security options for people most likely to be targeted by malicious hackers, such as government officials, human rights defenders and journalists. Head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher said in a Newsroom post Thursday, "These people are at the center of critical communities for public debate. They...