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Despite the extensive online record of Goldberg’s activities, prosecuting him is much less straightforward than it might appear. On one hand, he told the FBI when he was arrested that he believed his “jihadist” contact “did intend to create functioning bombs and would actually attempt to use them to kill and injure persons.” On the…
Facebook unleashed its new Reactions on the world yesterday. Instead of just “liking” a post, you can also now tell your friends, coworkers, and family how you really feel (assuming your feels are limited to “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad,” and “angry”). But they’re not the only ones. You can now also share your deepest (six)…
We use the word “troll” liberally these days. Take a spin through Google News using the word as a search term. You’ll see Maxim calling Kanye West a troll for tweeting that Mark Zuckerberg should give him a billion dollars. Then you’ll see Sports Illustrated saying the Grammys “trolled” Kanye. A 12-year-old with Down’s Syndrome…
Social media gives women the power to decide what sexy looks like. Delany*, a 22-year-old college student, tells all of her female friends to get on Tumblr, not for the body-positive memes or feminist art projects, but for the porn. “I tell all my female friends, start with Tumblr,” Delany told The Huffington Post. “It’s…
The last few times you’ve used Facebook, there’s a good chance you noticed something different. Lots of different publishers, including big names like the Washington Post, are now publishing full-length content directly to Facebook. The program, called Instant Articles, is designed for mobile users. It pushes full articles directly to Facebook, meaning that users…
Instant Articles are a fast and interactive experience for reading articles in News Feed. Powered by the same technology that loads photos and videos quickly in our mobile apps, Instant Articles display as much as ten times faster than standard mobile web articles and feature tilt-to-pan photos, auto-play video, interactive maps, and embedded audio captions…
Facebook wants to make publishers happier. Facebook: Instant Articles paging_filter Facebook is updating its policies for Instant Articles, per a rep with the company, which could mean up to 40 percent more ads for publishers on the platform. Starting today, publishers utilizing Instant Articles will be able to place an ad every 350 words instead…
We explain exactly what Facebook’s Instant Articles are, and how publishers are using them. From a social publishing perspective, Facebook Instant Articles have been one of the major talking points of 2015. With some of the biggest news brands, from legacy sites to digital upstarts, now participating, Instant Articles are now a dominant talking point in…
Facebook today said it plans to open up Instant Articles to all publishers, and as it turns out, it has a very wide definition of the word publisher. The fast-loading format won’t be limited to professional media organizations, but will be open to pretty much any individual. Freelancers and amateur writers will be able to…
Instant Articles is a new way for publishers to distribute stories on Facebook An Instant Article is a HTML5 document optimized for fast mobile performance, rich storytelling capabilities, branded design and customized visual display. Through this guide, you’ll learn how to create an Instant Article and use a standardized markup language (similar to XML) to…