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How the Associated Press Fights Fake News on Facebook…and Everywhere Else

Cision

Carvin is the point person in a partnership that began in December 2016 between the AP and Facebook that illustrates some of the efforts the AP is undertaking to scrub misinformation from readers’ views. Facebook focuses on the content that is patently untrue, but the AP is not bound by these limitations in their checks.

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Almanac: Challenges and opportunities for public relations 2022

Stephen Waddington

In the past year Facebook has proven unfit to regulate itself. Researchers are beginning to understand the impact of Meta’s Facebook platform on Brexit and the US election both directly and through misinformation. Facebook took down 1.3 They have a combined following of 59 million across Facebook, Google and Twitter.

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General Election 2019: Two sides to every story

Stephen Waddington

In this guest post I asked agency owner and Conservative Party campaigner Graham Robb to write about this experience of the 2019 General Election. The photo was featured in every newspaper the next day and even placed on the cover of the manifesto. Boris, visible in your local area We should not underestimate the power of local media.

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How the Associated Press Fights Fake News on Facebook…and Everywhere Else

Beyond PR

Carvin is the point person in a partnership that began in December 2016 between the AP and Facebook that illustrates some of the efforts the AP is undertaking to scrub misinformation from readers’ views. Facebook focuses on the content that is patently untrue, but the AP is not bound by these limitations in their checks.

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A day in the life of one solo PR/social media consultant (and adjunct professor)

Communications Conversations

Start research and writing a byline for my Trustmark client. We create content for Sleep Number’s Careers Facebook and Instagram pages and the company’s LinkedIn and Glassdoor pages. Follow-up with the 30+ folks in the local mastermind group I manage with a note about our meeting tomorrow. Blog post research.

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Media Relations in 2020

5W PR

A couple of decades ago, media relations meant keeping in touch on a regular basis with the assignment editor of the local TV station and the city editor of the newspaper. In addition to maintaining healthy relationships with the local newspapers and TV stations, it also means opening up and nurturing rapport on so many other fronts.

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PR: Less Elitist Than Ever

Maxim Behar

He can do that on his own, or some local journalist can do that for him for a small amount of money, or his teenage kid can do it for free. There are already online stores with no specific websites that sell products solely on social media — the so-called Facebook stores. Social media is taking over online trade, as well.

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