• ICYMI: Snapchat and Instagram Disable Feature Due to Racist Giphy

    ICYMI: Snapchat and Instagram Disable Feature Due to Racist Giphy

    Snapchat and Instagram are two separate companies, and yet, they seem to do a lot of things “together”.  Or at least at the same time. Usually, when Snapchat releases a new feature, Instagram is not far behind with the same feature.  While I rag on Instagram for doing this, it’s kind of a decent strategy. …

  • Do Facebook’s Community Standards Allow Hateful Posts?

    Do Facebook’s Community Standards Allow Hateful Posts?

    Facebook has over 2 billion users.  That’s almost 30% of the world’s population. Now, how many of those users are actually fake profiles or duplicates are unknown.  Regardless though, Facebook has a really difficult task.  They have to be able to police what users are doing to make sure that it conforms to their terms…

  • Facebook Algorithms Use Hate Speech to Help Target Advertisements

    Facebook Algorithms Use Hate Speech to Help Target Advertisements

    One of Facebook’s selling features to advertisers has been that you can use the company’s vast amounts of data to target users.  Further to that, you can target users based on almost any personal characteristic.  So, for example, if you join a Facebook Group for the baseball team that you are on, in theory, this…