Social Weekly News and Trends
Social — Week 6, 2017
VK launches the direction of Charity, the main tasks of which is to unite representatives of non-profit sector at the site, provide tools for the effective work of funds and promote the charity among users of the social network. Officially registered socially-oriented NGOs c verified VK will be able to apply for grants for free promotion in social networks.
Facebook updated the policy for placing advertising for eliminate the possibility of users discrimination. In particular, in categories such as offers of employment, housing and loans.
Ahead of presidential elections in France, Google and Facebook have come together against fake news, reported by Reuters.
Twitter introduces three new updates to enhance the fight against trolling. Among them are the following:
The daily audience of OK social network in Ukraine is 5.4 million people, monthly — 9.5 million. Such statistics shared by the representatives of the social network during the practical conference Digital Brand Coupage, which took place in Kiev.
Pinterest introduced three innovations associated with visual search technology:
A group of Facebook shareholders urged the Board members to exclude the head of the company Mark Zuckerberg of the Board of Directors.
Twitter announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2016 and the year as a whole.
Facebook expanded the possibilities of visual search in social networks using their platform of computer vision Lumos. Now users can search for photos using key words describing their content.
Social network OK announced about the appearance of the official representative of the social network in Ukraine. They became Konstantin Kosonotskiy, who earlier headed the Department of targeted advertising of social media sales house in the Ukrainian house sales T-Sell.
