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Report Suggests Meta and YouTube Teamed up to Target Teen Users

The project in question was reportedly designed to reach teen YouTube users with promotions for Instagram, which violates Google’s targeting restrictions.

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Google and Meta reportedly skirting their own rules to ad target young teens, shows why tech giants cannot regulate themselves

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Google and Meta reportedly teamed up to create ads targeting young teens, which proves why tech giants can't be trusted to regulate themselves.

They Want Your Kids: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and Google Secretly Targeted YouTube Ads at Minors

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Tech giants Google and Meta reportedly collaborated on a marketing project designed to target YouTube users aged 13 to 17 with advertisements promoting Instagram, skirting Google’s own rules for how minors are treated online.

Man sues TikTok, Reddit, YouTube and Meta for being “too addictive”

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A man is launching a class-action lawsuit against TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook for being “too addictive.”

Meta closes Ready at Dawn, the studio behind Echo VR

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Meta is closing Ready at Dawn, the first-party studio behind VR games like Echo VR and Lone Echo, Android Central reported on Wednesday. The shutdown is effective immediately. Meta acquired the studio in 2020.

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WeightWatchers Taps Meta Marketer and Ogilvy to Keep Pace Amid GLP-1 Boom

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WeightWatchers (also known as WW) has tapped ex-Meta marketer Christina Kothari as global vp of brand and integrated marketing, and enlisted Ogilvy as its global creative agency of record (AOR). The 61-year-old company is initiating a…

Google and Meta employees caught targeting teens in ad scheme

Rogue Google and Meta employees had a secret alliance to target ads toward minors.

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Google, Meta hatched secret deal to target teens on YouTube with Instagram ads: report

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Google and Meta reportedly struck a “secret deal” to target underage YouTube users with advertisements that promoted rival service Instagram – in violation of the online search giant’s own ad rules, according to a bombshell report Thursday.

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Mesmerizing Trailer for Zia Anger's Meta-Fiction Feature 'My First Film'

"Did you know that most filmmakers spend their entire lives making some version of the same movie? And I wonder... are they this alone?" Mubi has unveiled a trailer for My First Film, a hybrid documentary-narrative feature film made by Zia…

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Market Clubhouse Morning Memo - August 7th, 2024 (Trade Strategy For SPY, QQQ, AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, META And TSLA)

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Good Morning Traders! In today's Market Clubhouse Morning Memo, we will discuss SPY, QQQ, AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, META, and TSLA.

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Man Puzzled When Meta's AI Keeps Giving Out His Phone Number to Strangers

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Estoy Aqui Meta's AI chatbot kept giving strangers a man's phone number, and it remains unclear how or why it happened. As Business Insider's Rob Price reports, the debacle began when he was added to a random WhatsApp group chat filled…

Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals

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Project disregarded Google rules barring personalising and targeting ads to minors.

Google and Meta reportedly teamed up for ads targeting young teens

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Google worked with Meta to roll out ads that targeted young teens even if it's against the former's rules, according to the Financial Times. Based on the documents seen by the publication, Google worked on a marketing project designed to…

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Instagram Metrics: Meta-Owned Platform To Shift Focus to ‘Views’ As Primary Metric for Reels, Stories and Photos

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Instagram is reportedly shifting its primary metric to 'views' across all content formats, such as Reels, Stories and photos to provide a more consistent measure of content performance.

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Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on YouTube with Instagram ads

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Empowering Kenyan Creators: Meta Unveils Monetization Features on Facebook

In a move to support the vibrant creator community in Kenya, Meta has officially rolled out two key monetization features on its platforms – In-Stream Ads and Facebook Ads on Reels. This development allows eligible creators in the country…

Ready for Meta Connect 2024? Here’s what expecting to see

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Meta Connect is the Facebook-makers developer event and this year artificial intelligence will be front-and-center.