San Francisco, Dec 7 (Ians) From US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to the shocking death of African-American George Floyd, Facebook on Monday listed the top moments of 2020 on its platform that were sorted into six themes.
The six themes are: Icon, Social Awakening, Covid-19, Global Politics, Environmental Causes and Faith & Community.
Under the Icon category, "The Kobe Bryant's passing was this year's most discussed moment on Facebook, with the US, Mexico and Philippines sharing the most posts and photos celebrating his life," said Naomi Gleit, VP Product and Social Impact.
"In the three weeks following George Floyd's death, conversations around Black Lives Matter tripled, with an average of 7.5 million mentions on Facebook every day," she said in a blog post.
With 1.8 million members, The Blackout Coalition – a Facebook group supporting Black businesses, is the No 1 largest group among US users.
As the pandemic began to surge globally, communities found ways to connect,...
The six themes are: Icon, Social Awakening, Covid-19, Global Politics, Environmental Causes and Faith & Community.
Under the Icon category, "The Kobe Bryant's passing was this year's most discussed moment on Facebook, with the US, Mexico and Philippines sharing the most posts and photos celebrating his life," said Naomi Gleit, VP Product and Social Impact.
"In the three weeks following George Floyd's death, conversations around Black Lives Matter tripled, with an average of 7.5 million mentions on Facebook every day," she said in a blog post.
With 1.8 million members, The Blackout Coalition – a Facebook group supporting Black businesses, is the No 1 largest group among US users.
As the pandemic began to surge globally, communities found ways to connect,...
- 12/7/2020
- by IANS
- GlamSham
San Francisco, Dec 7 (Ians) From US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to the shocking death of African-American George Floyd, Facebook on Monday listed the top moments of 2020 on its platform that were sorted into six themes.
The six themes are: Icon, Social Awakening, Covid-19, Global Politics, Environmental Causes and Faith & Community.
Under the Icon category, "The Kobe Bryant's passing was this year's most discussed moment on Facebook, with the US, Mexico and Philippines sharing the most posts and photos celebrating his life," said Naomi Gleit, VP Product and Social Impact.
"In the three weeks following George Floyd's death, conversations around Black Lives Matter tripled, with an average of 7.5 million mentions on Facebook every day," she said in a blog post.
With 1.8 million members, The Blackout Coalition – a Facebook group supporting Black businesses, is the No 1 largest group among US users.
As the pandemic began to surge globally, communities found ways to connect,...
The six themes are: Icon, Social Awakening, Covid-19, Global Politics, Environmental Causes and Faith & Community.
Under the Icon category, "The Kobe Bryant's passing was this year's most discussed moment on Facebook, with the US, Mexico and Philippines sharing the most posts and photos celebrating his life," said Naomi Gleit, VP Product and Social Impact.
"In the three weeks following George Floyd's death, conversations around Black Lives Matter tripled, with an average of 7.5 million mentions on Facebook every day," she said in a blog post.
With 1.8 million members, The Blackout Coalition – a Facebook group supporting Black businesses, is the No 1 largest group among US users.
As the pandemic began to surge globally, communities found ways to connect,...
- 12/7/2020
- by IANS
- GlamSham
Amid criticism over Facebook’s policy to not fact-check political ads, the social giant is giving users a new option: They can choose to disable political advertising.
Facebook announced the new feature as it touted the launch of a new U.S. voter-registration drive — under which it hopes to sign up 4 million voters this year using Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. That’s double the estimated 2 million people Facebook says it helped register in both 2018 and 2016.
Starting Wednesday, some Facebook and Instagram users in the U.S. will be able to “turn off all social issue, electoral or political ads from candidates, Super PACs or other organizations that have the ‘Paid for by’ political disclaimer on them,” Naomi Gleit, VP of product management and social impact, wrote in a blog post.
The company plans to roll out the political ad opt-out feature to all U.S. users over the next few weeks,...
Facebook announced the new feature as it touted the launch of a new U.S. voter-registration drive — under which it hopes to sign up 4 million voters this year using Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. That’s double the estimated 2 million people Facebook says it helped register in both 2018 and 2016.
Starting Wednesday, some Facebook and Instagram users in the U.S. will be able to “turn off all social issue, electoral or political ads from candidates, Super PACs or other organizations that have the ‘Paid for by’ political disclaimer on them,” Naomi Gleit, VP of product management and social impact, wrote in a blog post.
The company plans to roll out the political ad opt-out feature to all U.S. users over the next few weeks,...
- 6/17/2020
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
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