Yesterday Verizon announced it was joining the “Stop Hate for Profit” Facebook ads boycott. Today Unilever said it will stop all advertising on Facebook and Twitter through the end of the year. The company issued a statement explaining its decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal. “Given our Responsibility Framework and the polarized atmosphere…
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Mark Zuckerberg can definitely hear Verizon now. The telecommunications giant announced Thursday that it is immediately ceasing all advertising on Facebook. So reports CNBC, which notes that Verizon is joining the likes of Patagonia, REI, and Ben & Jerry’s in financially distancing itself from the controversial social media platform. In an emailed statement to Mashable,…
Every SEO needs a fully stocked arsenal of tools to support day-to-day workflows. Just as technical SEO tools help us to identify critical areas for technical optimizations, content tools help to identify key areas for content optimizations. Choosing the right tool to add to your workflow largely depends on how you intend to use the…
European news publishers and governments have been trying to get Google to pay them to license content for years. There have been legal and legislative fights and tortured battles over copyright laws. After fighting the idea of paying publishers to display or link to their content, Google is now ready to comply. Paying for ‘high-quality’…
Devin Nunes is a real human obsessed with a pretend cow who loves to tweet. Sadly for him, as of a Friday ruling, the congressman from California will have to leave Twitter out of his ongoing litigious obsession. Nunes, a Republican, sued Twitter in March of last year, claiming the social media platform let the…
Is Martha Stewart’s recent drunk-posting the best new Instagram PR strategy to get media coverage and engagement? Oops, maybe not for everyone. Although it is a timely reminder, on-point social media strategies are central to any effective public relations and marketing With a large portion of the United States and beyond under shelter-at-home orders, it’s…
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Google’s Martin Splitt confirmed earlier this week that Google has fixed an issue with indexing and ranking some content found within the Disqus commenting platform. It is not clear how many sites were impacted by this issue, but Google said it is now resolved. What is Disqus? Disqus is a commenting platform that allows blogs…
The damn has broken. Twitter once again slapped a label on a Donald Trump tweet Tuesday, writing that the president’s ramblings about using “serious force” violated the company’s abusive behavior policy. This move comes less than a month after Twitter fact-checked a series of Trump tweets, and then flagged another one for threatening violence against…