Another Murder Video Puts Facebook On Defensive 04/27/2017

Facebook’s system for policing prohibited content is garnering fresh criticism after another horrifying murder-suicide was broadcast live on the social network, this time in Thailand.
On Monday, a 20-year-old Thai man, Wuttisan Wongtalay, used Facebook Live to broadcast himself murdering his...

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It's A Customer Service Issue But Far From The Top One 05/01/2017

Email doesn’t rank high as a customer service issue—it’s No. 12 on a long list of complaints. But consumers resent it when a company “uses your address or email address to
bombard you with advertisements,” according to a new study by Corra. 
This gripe drew an average of 3.07 on...

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Katie Hopkins Your Hate Has Gone Too Far

Accustomed as I am to reading the attention-seeking articles and tweets from Katie Hopkins with a sharp intake of breath, her online antics this week have taken me even closer to an apoplectic asthma attack than usual.
Few of you will need reminding of the tweet I am referring...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/katie-hopkins-your-hate-has-gone-too-far/

Powerful Viral Photos Show The Unstoppable #BlackMenOfYaleUniversity

Akintunde Ahmad has established some great friendships on campus as a student at Yale University, and he wanted to bring together some of his closest peers to capture the beauty of their bond.


So he hired professional photographer Vivian Dang to take images of him and eight of his black...

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Five Ways Donald Trump Has Broken His Promise To Protect Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid In His First 100 Days

Co-authored by Linda Benesch, Communications Director, Social Security Works


Donald Trump ran for President as a different kind of Republican. During the primary, he stood out from the crowd by promising to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. He went on to make that promise a...

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Most Teens Take Breaks From Social Media 04/28/2017

Having grown up in a world increasingly dominated by social media and mobile devices, teenagers may be developing a healthier, more practical relationship with technology than their elders, who
were already adults when the new technology hit.
That’s one takeaway from a new survey of 790...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/most-teens-take-breaks-from-social-media-04282017/

Mobile Web Score Big Gains During NFL Draft 05/01/2017

After some questionable picks, the only sure winner on Day 1 of the NFL Draft was the mobile Web.
Year-over-year, NFL Mobile from Verizon saw a 171% jump in devices reached — and a 187%
increase in minutes watched — during the event’s live broadcast window, on Thursday.
Overall,...

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Rating The Authenticity Of Influencers' Followers 04/27/2017

Even as Instagram passed 700 million users and
Amazon rolled out a camera-based Echo that seems tailor-made for fashion-minded influencers on
the platform, Fohr Card this week announced a rating system that will let brands see how authentic the following of each of its 15,000 influencers...

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A Whole New World - Social Media In Your Forties - Learning From The Kids

It was with some trepidation that I launched myself into social media a few years ago.
I don’t count the years before 2014 on Facebook and Twitter, as they were decidedly half-hearted, as was my foray into Myspace before that.
Now, in my third year, I absolutely love it.
As a...

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Facebook Says It Will Ramp Up Fight Against Propaganda

Facebook Inc acknowledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking to manipulate public opinion in other countries and outlined new measures it is taking to combat what it calls “information operations” that go well beyond the phenomenon known as fake news.


In...

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Schumer Trolls Trump Tax Plan: You're Doing It Wrong

WASHINGTON ― Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had a tart message for President Donald Trump on his tax reform proposal Thursday: You’re doing it wrong.


Schumer pulled out the old internet meme after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he couldn’t guarantee that the tax cuts...

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Payments On Social Media Near $3T In China 04/26/2017

While social media got its start in the United States, other countries are leading the way when it comes to inventing and adopting some of the nifty accessory functions that social media enables,
such as peer-to-peer and business-to-consumer payments (and vice versa) on social platforms.
A...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/payments-on-social-media-near-3t-in-china-04262017/

Email Revenue Up, Response Down For Nonprofits 04/26/2017

Email paid its way in the nonprofit field, generating 26% of all online revenue last year. But response rates fell and email list growth slowed, according to a survey of 133 groups released
yesterday by M+R, a firm that helps nonprofits with their campaigns.
The study showed that nonprofits...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/email-revenue-up-response-down-for-nonprofits-04262017/

The Rise Of The Silver Surfer: How Technology Is Enriching The Lives Of The Aging Population

There is an assumption amongst younger generations that the senior members of our society have no interest in technology. Labelled rather patronizingly as a generation of ‘digital dinosaurs’, there are often exaggerated claims of an ever-increasing ‘digital divide’...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/the-rise-of-the-silver-surfer-how-technology-is-enriching-the-lives-of-the-aging-population/

Father Kills Toddler On Facebook Live

For the second time in roughly a week, a brutal killing has been uploaded to Facebook.


According to police, a 20-year-old man on Monday used Facebook Live to stream the hanging of his 11-month-old daughter. The video, which was filmed at an abandoned hotel in Phuket, Thailand, showed the...

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It's Time For Seniors To Get A Fair COLA

Our nation’s seniors work their entire lives to earn Social Security, and they depend on Social Security for a dignified retirement. For many, Social Security isn’t just a luxury; it’s a necessity. In fact, Social Security provides more than half of monthly income needs for 61 percent of...

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Three In Ten Americans Don't Use Social Media 04/24/2017

It’s safe to say a new medium has “arrived” when it’s more interesting to talk about who’s not using it than who is.
On that note, just over three in ten
American adults still aren’t using social media in any form, although a fair number of these simply don’t use the Internet at all,...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/three-in-ten-americans-dont-use-social-media-04242017/

LinkedIn Officially Unveils Matched Audiences Platform 04/25/2017

LinkedIn formally announced its new advertising platform on Monday, after a leaked presentation precipitated the news last month. 
LinkedIn’s Matched Audiences is a series of three marketing features that will roll out across all of LinkedIn’s advertising products over the next...

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Automation And Society: Will Democracy Survive The Internet Of Things?

Automation is disrupting society, but will it destroy or reaffirm our faith in democracy and its freedoms?
The far reaching potential of hyperconnectivity, the Internet of Things and automation is discussed in the media every day. The speculation on how society will be affected is wild,...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/automation-and-society-will-democracy-survive-the-internet-of-things/

This Comedian Needs Twitter Followers So He Can Be A Tax-Exempt Religion

Tax day is over, but it’s never too early to get a start on next year, specifically by gaining 100,000 Twitter followers so you can become a tax-exempt religion!


Comedian Brandon Scott Wolf is aiming to do exactly that. Wolf didn’t ask to be a religious leader; he’s asking you to be a...

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Obama Supports The Wrong Candidate In France's Election

Bernie Sanders’ crew supports progressive candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon


Former US president Obama “wade[d] into the French election fight” on Thursday with a highly publicized phone call to French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. Obama stopped short of a formal endorsement, but it...

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Protests against Socialism in Venezuela Escalate Again, Not Because of Donald Trump

MIGUEL GUTIERREZ/EPA/NewscomThe socialist government of Venezuela has faced street protests on-and-off for more than the last three years, ever since it ramped up its crackdown on a growing opposition. Hugo Chavez, the late former president, was a popular figure in Venezuela, and among...

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MLB Players Launching Social App 04/21/2017

Why, you can almost smell the chewing tobacco and beard sweat. This week, the Major League Baseball Players Association, representing the commercial interests of the stars of the infield, announced
plans to launch a new social media app intended to help fans connect with their favorite...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/mlb-players-launching-social-app-04212017/

Tips For Sustainable Marketing Ahead Of Science March, Earth Day 04/22/2017

Another weekend will be marked by mass protests
in the United States as the scientific community and concerned citizens take to the streets Saturday for the Science March in Washington, D.C.
Inspired by the success of the Women’s
March in January, more than 600 satellite marches are also...

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How To Use LinkedIn To Land Your Dream Job

When it comes to social media, LinkedIn is THE way to boost your career and land your dream job. If you craft an all-singing, all-dancing, perfect profile, the job you really want is pretty much in the bag – and at the very least, you can boost your career with the networking...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/how-to-use-linkedin-to-land-your-dream-job/

Ryan Reynolds Has A Very Normal Reaction To Fan's Butt Tattoo

If Ryan Reynolds didn’t know who his most devoted fan was before, he sure does now.


On Thursday, the actor happened upon a tweet that a die-hard “Deadpool” fan posted in March. But it wasn’t any old fanboy tweet.


The Twitter post included a picture of the name “RYAN REYNOLDS” tattooed...

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Disability Rights Advocates Accuse Washington Post Of Perpetuating 'Myths' About Benefits

WASHINGTON ― Disability rights advocates and a leading Democratic think tank are livid at The Washington Post over a March 30 front-page story on the prevalence of disability benefits in rural America.


The newspaper claimed that “as many as one-third of working-age adults” in rural...

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FTC Fires Warning Shot On Influencers 04/20/2017

Marketers are pushing the boundaries on acceptable practices in their social media influencer campaigns – and regulators are pushing back.
This week, the Federal Trade Commission sent
letters to scores of social media influencers and their advertising partners, warning them to follow the...

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Performance Is New Programmatic In TV Advertising 04/20/2017

TV ads are about to undergo a huge shift in how they are bought and sold. This change isn’t just about the big announcements of late about audience-based TV ads – the OpenAP consortia from
Fox, Turner and Viacom, as well as NBCU’s announcement that it would reserve $1 billion of its...

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Social Media Melds Digital With Tangible 04/20/2017

The more digital our social lives have become, the more many of us seem to crave the tangible, the experiential, the takeaway that doesn’t vanish with the swipe of a finger or the beep of
barcode scanner.
My brother, for instance, keeps a drawer full of crinkly ticket stubs from long-ago...

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Don't Fall Hook, Line And Sinker In A World Of Catfish

By Claire Stead, Online Safety Ambassador at Smoothwall

“The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it’s online or not, is what people want.” – Nev Schulman, Catfish.

We are all human, and as Nev Schulman states, what people ultimately want is to find a...

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These 3 Women Created An App For All Your Emergency Shape-Up Needs

Balancing school, work and being black can make it difficult to prioritize looking good. But three Howard alumnae and friends are making the efforts involved with being busy, black and well-kempt much simpler with an app providing on-demand barber service to your doorstep. 


The HausCall...

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Environment Or Economy Is A Nonsensical Question

Our belief systems are one of the most powerful forces in existence. As history has shown this is true whether or not those beliefs are accurate. Inaccurate but firmly held beliefs fuel racism, sexism, Nazism and genocide.


One of the most dangerous, self-destructive beliefs alive and well...

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Amid Uproar, Facebook Promises Faster Response 04/18/2017

Reeling from another gruesome crime video posted on the social network, Facebook is scrambling to explain how new procedures will help ensure that inappropriate content is swiftly
removed in future. But it’s an open question whether any system based on self-policing by the Facebook community...

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Honda Urges Drivers To Choose 'Designated Texter' 04/19/2017

Honda is launching a video on social
media in honor of Distracted Driving Awareness Month that urges drivers to keep their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel.
“The
Designated Texter” is a rap parody style video that aims to remind drivers the importance of not driving distracted....

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In A World Consumed By Technology, We Must Have The Power To Switch Off

Technology may have taken over our lives, but we need to stay in control. It keeps us connected to the world, allowing us to share our opinions with millions and watch the latest shows. But we must have the power to put the smartphones down and walk away.
On a train into London, I saw what...

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Wendy's Just Destroyed Hardee's With A Single Tweet

Wendy’s just destroyed another fast food chain in the latest round of Twitter wars. 


The restaurant took on Hardee’s in a social media exchange on April 10 that ended with one of the harshest clapbacks we’ve seen in recent memory. 


It all started when two Twitter users began debating...

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Why The Affordable Care Act Hasn’t Gone Far Enough

In this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” Robert Scheer interviews Dr. Paul Song, a radiation oncologist and an outspoken critic of the current U.S. health-care system. Read the full transcript of the conversation below.


Song argues that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as...

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Fake Recruiters Target College Grads On Social Media 04/13/2017

Just as the decade-long job drought for young adults shows signs of ending, they find themselves facing another menace: fraudsters who take advantage of their enthusiasm and inexperience by
impersonating corporate recruiters for big brands son social media.
According to online security firm...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/fake-recruiters-target-college-grads-on-social-media-04132017/

Hotwire Public Relations Group Scores Series Of New Clients 04/17/2017

Hotwire Public Relations Group scored a series of new clients, including: Keeper Security, Looker, New Teacher Center, Sierra Wireless, Tech21 and United Rentals.
Keeper Security is a password
manager and digital vault that enlisted Hotwire to release a consumer-facing piece of research...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/hotwire-public-relations-group-scores-series-of-new-clients-04172017/

Rainbow Filters That Aren't Actually A Filter Are The New Instagram Craze Of 2017

People are literally chasing rainbow light in the pursuit of pretty, perfect Instagram snaps. 


The catch? The filter doesn’t actually exist on the app. Users are playing with technicolour to achieve a rainbow light reflected on their faces that’s oh, so pretty.


If trying to the find the...

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Stop Asking Brands To Give You Free Stuff For Retweets

Back in my day, we used to have to call a 1-800 number, wait 20 minutes on hold for an uninterested operator, and then demand to speak with a manager if we had any hope of getting free stuff in the mail.


These days, there’s a jovial marketing team of millennials behind your favorite brand...

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Debunking The Washington Post's Latest Outrageous Attacks On Social Security

A just-released report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) reveals that, once again, the “serious people” in Washington are weaponizing shoddy, inaccurate data to stoke false claims about Social Security. The CAP report exposes The Washington Post’s misuse of data to inflate the...

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Brickbat: Cultural Revolution

The Chinese government has closed the social media sites of economist Mao Yushi as well as a think tank he is associated with. Mao, who received the 2012 Milton Friedman Prize, is a proponent of free markets and a critic of those inspired by the late Communist leader Mao Zedong.


The above...

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Facebook Cracks Down On Fake Profiles 04/14/2017

As part of its campaign against fake news, hate speech and other undesirable content, Facebook is cracking down on the bogus accounts that often create or distribute illicit or offensive
material, the social network announced this week. The move comes amid mounting advertiser concern about...

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Six Degrees Of Internet Excoriation 04/14/2017

Earlier in the week, I posted this snarky joke on social media: “The CEO of United just sent Sean Spicer a huge fruit basket, regifted from Pepsi.”
Friends added that the
basket was probably dropped off in an Uber driven by Bill O’Reilly.
Indeed, in the land of easy moral outrage that is...

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Gerber Among The 86% Of Marketers Using Influencers 04/13/2017

Around this time last year, Nestlé’s Gerber brand wanted to raise awareness and promote trial of Lil’ Beanies, a new product that, in the words of brand manager David Greci,
“is a bit of a different proposition from some of our other products.” The navy-bean-based snack for toddlers boasts...

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Dolce & Gabbana Sparks Online Debate After Dressing Melania Trump Again

Dressing the First Lady of America has become somewhat of a stay-away-zone for a lot of fashion designers. 


Before the inauguration in January this year, some designers even released public statements noting their refusal to dress Melania Trump.  


One brand who hasn’t shied away from...

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Jacob Sartorius On Celebrity Crushes, Dream Tattoos And New Music

Twitter.
You sing and you rap. Which is your favorite?
I think both, especially with my upcoming music, we have a little bit of rap and a little bit of singing. I think it’s all grown from pop music. It’s more pop-rap if I do rap. I love both of them. It’s a whole new style of music.
Do you...

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Trump's Budget Director Declares Class War On The American People

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has issued a declaration of class war against the American people. His words may have sounded wonkish or technical, but underneath the coded language, Mulvaney was expressing Republicans’ extreme ideas with unusual directness.


In an interview with...

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Fake News Freakout - Reason.com

Weekly NewsAnyone with a Facebook account this year likely witnessed a barrage of false, conspiracy-laden headlines. My news feed informed me that Hillary Clinton was gravely ill, was already dead, had a body double, and murdered dozens of people. (It’s amazing what you can learn when...

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Venezuela Denying Food Aid to Opponents, Stealing Toys for Christmas, Introducing 20,000-Bolivar Note Worth $5

Superintendencia de Precios JustosVenezuela continues to suffer from a self-inflicted economic crisis thanks to its socialist government. Local committees of supply and demand (CLAPs) the government set up this summer to “create a system of distribution that is for the people and...

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Complaining On Social Media Pays Off, Literally 04/12/2017

Call it raising a customer service issue or plain old venting, complaining about products or services on social media is now commonplace – and lucrative, according to a new survey by
Gocompare.com, a British price comparison site.
Indeed, in addition to (hopefully) getting a brand’s...

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Snap-To-Shop Ads Hope To Drive Retail Sales 04/13/2017

Continuing to challenge Facebook’s ad-targeting expertise, Snap is rolling out a new ad product that tracks the relationship between online and offline conversions. 
Dubbed
“Snap to Store,” the new effort is tailored for businesses determined to drive consumers into physical retail spaces....

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America's Coming Transfer of Wealth

Does it seem as if some lawmakers have the attention span of a toddler? Several years ago, concerns about the debt and overspending were all the rage. These worries have dissipated almost entirely as deficit levels have gone down from their sky-high summit in 2009. And just like that,...

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Shocking Stats Reveal That Nine Out Of Ten Mums Feel Pressure To Be 'Perfect'. Who Is To Blame For This?

The ‘nofilterparenting’ campaign on The Lovely Mum Crowd has seen mums from across the UK coming together to share a more realistic take on what motherhood is really like. The Duchess of Cambridge recently delivered a speech which revealed that two out of ten mothers suffer with...

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#SpinUrEmbarrassingMoments Is How Twitter Learns From Pepsi And United

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04/11/2017 04:22 pm ET

We learned it from watching you!






It’s been a tough week for the PR world. Pepsi released what may be the most tone-deaf ad in the history of advertisement. United inadvertently created an ad of their own, after footage of a man...

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Trump’s Trojan Horse Attack On Social Security

As part of his tax package, Donald Trump reportedly is planning to propose replacing employee contributions to Social Security with general revenue. The proposal is a Trojan horse: It appears to be a gift, in the form of middle class tax relief, but would, if enacted, lead to the...

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Does Digital Literacy Require More Gatekeepers?

Wesley Fryer“A deep political divide is starting to open up in digital literacy discussions,” argues Bryan Alexander, an academic turned consultant who writes frequently about education and technology. This division doesn’t separate left from right or Red from Blue....

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Nationalism and Socialism Are Very Bad Ideas

Between the Great Lisbon Earthquake and the revolutionary year of 1848 the European chattering classes had three big ideas. One was very, very good. The other two were very, very bad. We’re still paying.




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YouTube Gains On Netflix In OTT 04/10/2017

Nowadays when people talk about over-the-top Internet-based TV, most are probably still referring to Netflix, the video-on-demand service so ubiquitous it gave rise to its own leisure
activity/euphemism, “Netflix & chill.” And while Netflix still rules the roost, its main social media...

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Facebook Expands On Video Metrics In Page Insights 04/11/2017

On Monday, Facebook released several improvements to Page Insights for video, such as adding aggregate minutes viewed and the ability to make comparisons between current video metrics and
historical benchmarks.
Video and live streams have become a major focus for Facebook. Since releasing...

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Facebook Has No First Amendment Right to Send Unauthorized Texts, Says Court

Mauro Grigollo Westend61/Newscom“Today is Jim Stewart’s birthday. Reply to post a wish on his Timeline or reply with 1 to post ‘Happy Birthday!'” That’s the text, from Facebook to Colin Brickman, that launched a legal battle between Brickman and the social-media...

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What Does Rising Support for Legalizing Both Marijuana and Same-Sex Marriage Mean?

Sergei Bachlakov/DreamstimeA new study, “Should Mary and Jane Be Legal?,” in Public Opinion Quarterly traces the changes in American attitudes toward both legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage from 1988 to 2014. The Indiana University researchers use data from the...

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Revisiting Murray Rothbard's Thoughts on Libertarian Strategy

Gage Skidmore/FlickrIn thinking about libertarian strategy, I find it useful to revisit the framework set out by Murray Rothbard in For a New Liberty (FNL). What counts here is not that Rothbard, a builder of the modern libertarian movement, was the author, but that it is an eloquent...

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Why I'm Blocking Twitter Ads For Women's Rights

Oh look, Twitter have been making changes. As is usual with Twitter (and, let’s face it, many tech companies) the changes have, for some at least, made the site more annoying and clunky. But it isn’t the improvements that bother me, or indeed many people. We are troubled by the...

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When Heroin Almost Took My Life, My Phone Saved It

At the end, there were only two things I cared about: the bag of heroin on my glass-topped coffee table, and the cell phone next to it. They were my two life lines. After a decade of abusing opiates, I couldn’t stop using heroin. I was psychologically, physically, and emotionally dependent...

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https://skpsoft.com/social-media/when-heroin-almost-took-my-life-my-phone-saved-it/

Democrats Should Respond To Trump's Healthcare Defeat By Expanding Medicare

In the wake of the collapse of Trumpcare, Democrats should not simply move on. Rather, they should propose the expansion of Medicare as a way to improve the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Expanding Medicare, like expanding Social Security, is excellent policy. It is also extremely popular,...

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The Social Media of 1939

Radio Amateur NewsIn the first two decades of the 20th century, a new subculture embraced a new technology. Ham radio operators built their own transmitters, traded and modified each other’s designs, negotiated complicated covenants that let them share the unregulated ether, and formed...

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YouTube Requires 10K+ Views Before Placing Ads 04/07/2017

Following a wave of criticism from advertisers unhappy about their ads appearing next to offensive content, YouTube is tightening the screws for the YouTube Partner Program, which allows content
creators to make money from ads on their channels.
That includes a minimum of threshold of views...

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Poland Spring Declares 'Greatness Springs from Here' 04/10/2017

Poland Spring’s first campaign in more than a year, “Greatness Springs from Here,” looks to increase awareness that the brand is exclusively sourced from — as
well as exclusively available in — the Northeast.
The creative, from FCB NY, features fans from Maine and other New England states...

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Taking Your Leads From Artificial Intelligence 04/06/2017

Sysomos rolled out a unified social media marketing and analytics platform yesterday that it says enables marketers to access all the paid, owned and earned data they need to create strategic
campaigns, take action in real time and measure the actions through one interface. In effect, it...

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Germany Willing to Fine U.S. Companies to Censor What People Say Online

Maurizio Gambarini/dpa/picture-alliance/NewscomIf you were financially responsible—to the tune of millions of dollars—for the content that users of your online platform posted online, you might take a bit of a dim view of giving them a lot of leeway in what they had to say.
That is...

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Hey Population Doomsters. People Aren't Rats: New at Reason

NIHOvercrowding was a big concern for 20th-century prophets of population doom. In 1962, National Institute of Mental Health researcher John Calhoun published an influential article, “Population Density and Social Pathology,” in Scientific American. Calhoun had conducted...

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Obama Administration Thinks People on Social Security Who Have Others Handling Their Finances Shouldn't Have Guns

As part of the Obama administration’s post-Newtown school mass gun murder attempts to toughen background check laws and make sure the “wrong people” don’t have guns (although a move that has less than zero to do with any possibility of anyone becoming a mass public...

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Is Social Media Socially Isolating?

The digital natives…are going native
Platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr and even old-school Facebook have become the social life-blood of the so-called ‘digitally native’ generation – with new channels constantly springing up. For millions,...

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These Besties Put A Hilarious Spin On The #FollowMeTo Instagram Trend

These days, the #followmeto vacation pic trend is ubiquitous on Instagram. The trend took off in 2013, when photographer Murad Osmann began posting images of his girlfriend-turned wife Natalia Zakharova holding his hand in breathtaking locations all around the world. Here’s one of them in...

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Screwed Again, Trump Voters Stand By Their Man

As Passover approaches, a parable is in order: Moses never entered the Promised Land, only his followers did. If Donald Trump were Moses, however, things would have been different. Moses F. Trump would have said to his followers standing by the bank of the Jordan River, “You guys wait...

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Border Agents Misuse Customs Regs to Try to Unmask ‘Rogue’ Twitter Account (Update: Attempt Withdrawn!)

Aprescindere / Dreamstime.comAgents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are attempting to force Twitter to reveal the real name of an account user. Twitter is taking them to court to try to stop them, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has jumped on board to represent...

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34 Lawmakers Want Trump to Sanction Venezuela

Carlos Díaz / Wikimedia CommonsSome 34 U.S. lawmakers from both parties have sent President Donald Trump a letter urging him to address Venezuelan officials’ corruption and human rights abuses with sanctions, the Associated Press reports. The letter was co-written by Rep. Ileana...

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Germany OKs Mega-Fines For Illicit Content 04/06/2017

Maybe you thought they were kidding, but it’s not their style: the Germans really are going to hit social media companies with eye-watering eight-figure fines if they fail to remove illicit
content in a timely manner.
This week, German cabinet ministers voted to approve a plan that would...

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Facebook Launches AI Assistant M 04/07/2017

Stateside, Facebook Messenger users can now expect a little help from M, the AI-powered virtual assistant that Facebook has been developing for more than a year.
M will make its presence
known to Messenger users by popping right into their active conversations and suggesting what it...

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Why Is Twitter a For-Profit Platform, Anyway?

RICHARD B. LEVINE/NewscomPoor Twitter. By now, the persistent tug-of-war among user groups complaining about disagreeable content and others who point to the platform’s free speech roots has been exhausted to the point of cliche. But as the now-ubiquitous microblogging platform...

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How CPAC Becomes TPAC: New at Reason

C-SPAN ScreenshotA year makes quite a difference. During the run-up to 2016’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), many activists on the right urged the American Conservative Union, which organizes the annual event, to rescind its invitation to Donald Trump. Allowing Trump...

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We Know Who You Are

Illinois officials are blaming human error for releasing the Social Security numbers and other personal information of more than 1,000 Department of Corrections employees to the friend of an inmate. They say the information was accidentally included when the department responded to an open...

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Is Moderation The Key To Bursting The Fake News Filter Bubble?

The editorial distribution model has changed dramatically since we all switched our homepages from our favourite news source to Facebook. Now, we get news from our friends.
I’m not complaining – it’s nice to feel connected through the things we read and watch. But...

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Facebook Releases New Tools To Combat Revenge Porn

On Wednesday, Facebook unveiled a handful of new tools aimed at reducing the spread of so-called “revenge porn” on the site, a category Mark Zuckerberg defined as “any intimate photo shared without permission.”


To be clear, Facebook has never permitted this type of content, and generally...

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House Democrats Are Inviting Trump To Expand Social Security

WASHINGTON ― Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) introduced a bill Wednesday to expand Social Security benefits and shore up the program’s finances.


The Social Security 2100 Act already has 156 co-sponsors, all of them Democrats, giving it the support of some 80 percent of the party’s House...

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New Study Blames Instagram for Food Waste. Seriously.

jbloom via Foter.com / CC BYFood waste is an enormous problem. But if two recent studies on the causes of food waste are to be believed, then a solution to that problem is likely at hand.




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Venezuela Reminds Us That Socialism Frequently Leads to Dictatorship

Manaure Quintero/NurPhoto/Sipa U/NewscomOn March 29, the Supreme Court of Venezuela dissolved the country’s elected legislature, allowing Venezuela’s top court to write future laws. The court is filled with allies of Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, while...

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Millennial Entrepreneurs Favor Facebook 04/04/2017

Snapchat has dominated the headlines recently with its IPO, but Facebook is assiduously copying every major feature of the rival platform, and still enjoys a big lead in terms of time spent, at
least among entrepreneurial millennials.
That’s according to a new survey of 1,332 candidates for...

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Net Neutrality Rules Don't Protect AT&T In Battle Over Throttling, FTC Argues 03/03/2015

The Federal Trade Commission says in new court papers that it is entitled to continue pursuing a lawsuit against AT&T, despite the new net neutrality rules.
The agency argues in court papers
filed on Monday that the net neutrality rules, which were passed last week by the Federal...

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Snapchat Leverages Bitmoji's Rocketing Growth 04/04/2017

Combine Snapchat’s support and the glee people feel when making their own personalized emojis, and what do you get?
The fastest-growing app in the country, of course!
Unless
you reside under a rock, you know I’m talking about Bitmoji — the emoji personalization app that Snap bought (as...

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Facebook Tells Police to Stop Using Them to Spy on Folks

Scott ShackfordJust hours before a panel on social media surveillance here at South by Southwest, Facebook announced a change in policy that would keep some of its data out of easy collection and use by law enforcement.
The news was broken by The Washington Post‘s Elizabeth Dwoskin,...

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Trump, Propaganda, and Credulity - Reason.com

C-SPAN screenshotA year makes quite a difference. During the run-up to 2016’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), many activists on the right urged the American Conservative Union, which organizes the annual event, to rescind its invitation to Donald Trump. Allowing Trump...

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Why It's Hard to Trust the Social Security Disability Insurance Trust Fund

DreamstimeHave you ever wondered why your television screen is often filled with advertisements from law firms touting their ability to land money for the disabled? It’s because helping people obtain federal Social Security disability benefits has become a lucrative industry in the...

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Shedding Some Light On 'Dark Social': Why Content Must Be More Engaging Than Ever Before

By Mick Entwisle, CEO and co-Founder of Genero
The term ‘Dark Social’ might seem like a reference to some sinister Darth Vader fanfiction, but in fact it is just the ‘ordinary route’ most people take when they share content online. Put simply, anything shared over a...

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The Internet Has Collective Chills Over This Teen's Rendition Of 'Hallelujah'

A teenage girl from Kansas is impressing Twitter users with her rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”


On March 27, 17-year-old Tiffany Day tweeted a video of herself singing the song into a well during a recent visit to Italy with her school choir.


“Found a well in Italy with a nice...

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Filling In The Magic Asterisk: The Republican Reform Proposal

For years Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan wowed the Washington pundit class by pushing his balanced budget proposals. Not only did he outline a plan for taxes and spending that balanced the budget and paid down the debt, he actually got the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score the...

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Is That GIF You’re About to Post on Twitter a ‘Deadly Weapon’?

‘Perfect’If a person can come to actual, physical harm by looking at a particular image, and you deliberately present such an image to that person knowing this could happen, can you be held criminally responsible?
We’re about to find out if animated images can be classified...

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Frederick Douglass Hated Socialism - Reason.com

In November 1848, a socialist activist gave a speech at the 13th annual meeting of the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society. “Mr. Inglis” began his remarks well enough, reported the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass, who was also there to give a speech that day, “but...

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Facebook Tests Alternative News Feed, Publisher Tools 03/30/2017

Stung by a wave of criticism over Facebook’s alleged role creating ideological “filter bubbles” and enabling distribution of fake news, the world’s largest social network is
testing new products meant to help remedy these shortcomings – although it remains to be seen how effective some of...

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AT&T Presses Judge To Dismiss Throttling Case 03/06/2015

The Federal
Communications Commission’s new approach to broadband deprives the Federal Trade Commission of the ability to sue AT&T for throttling wireless subscribers, the company says in new court papers.
The telecom argues that the FCC’s Feb. 26 vote to reclassify broadband...

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Under Armour Expands PGA Tour Superstore Campaign 04/03/2017

The PGA Tour Superstore is expanding an online campaign
featuring golfer Jordan Spieth after his sponsor Under Armour liked the concept so much that the athletic brand wanted to bring it to a bigger stage.
Each year, PGA TOUR Superstore reaches out
to a golf brand to ask about their...

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What We'll Be Talking About In 2017 12/29/2016

Sources from different social-media arenas give us their takes on what developments we’ll be seeing in the coming year:
Mobile Messaging As The New OSIf you had told
marketers 10 years ago that Facebook and Twitter would become a premium platform to reach consumers, they would have laughed....

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Proposed Tweak to Internet Law Could Spur Seismic Shifts in Web as We Know It

A draft bill in the House of Representatives would add sex trafficking to the list of crimes excluded from the protection of the Communication Decency Act (CDA), a Geocities-era law with an important provision on internet publishing. That provision—Section 230—would prove crucial to the...

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Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists

akg-images/NewscomWhen people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don’t affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism—a “disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.” But new research suggests that professing...

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The House Passes a Gun Measure Supported by the ACLU and Mental Health Advocates. Media Hysteria Ensues.

The Associated Press would have you believe yesterday that “House votes to roll back Obama rule on background checks for gun ownership.” Discussing the same incident, National Public Radio informed its sober, serious listeners who want real news and not all that cable network...

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The Perfect Body Myth | The Huffington Post

The rise of social media has seen some incredible developments and benefits. You can meet new people who you would never meet in your everyday movements, speak to people on the other side of the world and just generally keep up with all 900 of your Facebook friends. But wow does it have its...

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Say Goodbye To Twitter Eggs, Not Trolls

Twitter eggs have finally hatched, and from their shells have emerged amorphous human blobs.


On Friday, Twitter announced that its iconic eggs would no longer be the default profile pictures for new users. Instead, they’ll be replaced with the silhouette of a “generic, serious, unbranded”...

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Government Assistance Helped The Women Of My Family Escape Poverty, One Generation At A Time

Lilly is 86 years old and lives a happy life with one of her daughters. Between Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and contributions from her children, she makes ends meet. Lilly was only able to attend school through 8th grade because her parents couldn’t afford clothes and shoes for all...

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