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Daily Crunch: Twitter confronts image-cropping concerns

Daily Crunch: Twitter confronts image-cropping concerns

Twitter addresses questions of bias in its image-cropping algorithms, we take a look at Mario Kart Live and the stock market takes a hit after President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis. This is your Daily Crunch for October 2, 2020. The big story: Twitter confronts image-cropping concerns Last month, (white) PhD student Colin Madland highlighted potential algorithmic […]

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Twitter is building ‘Birdwatch,’ a system to fight misinformation by adding more context to tweets

Twitter is building ‘Birdwatch,’ a system to fight misinformation by adding more context to tweets

Twitter is developing a new product called “Birdwatch,” which the company confirms is an attempt at addressing misinformation across its platform by providing more context for tweets, in the form of notes. Tweets can be added to “Birdwatch” — meaning flagged for moderation — from the tweet’s drop-down menu, where other blocking and reporting tools […]

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B2B Marketing News: LinkedIn Tops Data Trust Survey, More Text Allowed In Facebook Ads, MarTech Spend Climbs To Pre-Pandemic Levels, & Google’s New Tables Tool

B2B Marketing News: LinkedIn Tops Data Trust Survey, More Text Allowed In Facebook Ads, MarTech Spend Climbs To Pre-Pandemic Levels, & Google’s New Tables Tool

Facebook Is Removing Its Restrictions on Text Content in Facebook Ad Images Facebook will be relaxing strict text-in-ad-image ratio enforcement, while still encouraging the use of images that contain text in less than 20 percent of the image’s visible area, a move that could pave the way for new more text-heavy image options for marketers. […]

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3 Opportunities for Digital Marketers in the World of Virtual Gaming

3 Opportunities for Digital Marketers in the World of Virtual Gaming

This article is a repost. View the original here:  https://smartercx.com/what-is-digital-marketing-in-a-virtual-gaming-world/ Virtual gaming has created an entirely new digital marketing frontier for advertisers to engage with customers. Be they mobile games, homesteading apps, massive multiplayer online roleplaying games, or virtual reality experience, the virtual real estate associated with online worlds keeps expanding. The gaming industry, in […]

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Facebook sues two companies engaged in data scraping operations

Facebook sues two companies engaged in data scraping operations

Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, including both Facebook and Instagram, as well as other large websites and services, including Twitter, Amazon, LinkedIn and YouTube. The companies, which gathered the data of […]

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