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Who Is Fighting Fake News? [article]

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Any time YouTube finds a questionable piece of video content, it will add a text box linking pertinent “factual” information supplied by Wikipedia. It’s also launching a media literacy campaign as part of its larger strategy. Such harsh government censorship of media, however, is unlikely to work in the U.S.

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What Instagram’s New Timeline Means

Cision

Social networks have to monetize. Otherwise they would have to start hitting people up for money like a PBS pledge drive or the window that pops up on Wikipedia. This is the inevitable and necessary push and pull that will occur for both social networks and content creators. It ’ s going to be a big 2016 for Instagram.

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For whom the bell tolls

Stephen Waddington

Lord Bell left the agency in August 2016. It was also criticised at the same time for anonymously editing Wikipedia pages on behalf of clients. Editing Wikipedia is forbidden by the community in any instance where there is a conflict of internet. He is sceptical about social media.

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28 Observations from 28 Months as a Solo PR

ZudePR

I’m a 43-year-old traditional-media-relations-guy-turned-digital-PR. When I’m not doing a good job for clients, I write about digital PR/marketing for publications including Social Media Examiner , SEMRush , PR Daily , PR Moment , MuckRack , and Business2Community. Spot on, Wikipedia. 2016 Goals,” it says.

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Japanese VTubers & The Future of Online Avatirism

Doctor Spin

In many ways, vtubing is a form of social media puppetry. This is Hatsune Miku from 2016: Enter: Hololive Production So, who are the people behind these vtube avatars? In Wikipedia. Perhaps anonymity and “freedom from physical appearance” will unleash the next social media revolution of human expression.

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The Female VTubers

Doctor Spin

In many ways, vtubing is a form of social media puppetry. This is Hatsune Miku from 2016: Enter: Hololive Production So, who are the people behind these vtube avatars? In Wikipedia. Perhaps anonymity and “freedom from physical appearance” will unleash the next social media revolution of human expression.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. It included email (iContact), press releases (PRWeb), media relations (HARO), and social media (North Social and Engine 140), bundled in what was pitched as an easy-to-use and all-in-one product.