Facebook revamped its automatic alt text experience, which provides detailed descriptions of images for people who are blind or visually impaired. The social network introduced AAT in April 2016, using artificial intelligence and object recognition to automatically generate descriptions of photos on-demand. Instagram added AAT in November 2018. Instagram AAT is available to people using ..
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WhatsApp responded to pushback over the new terms of its recent update, postponing the Feb. 8 deadline it had initially imposed for users to review and accept the terms. Despite attempts earlier this week to clarify details of its new terms and reassure users that neither WhatsApp nor parent company Facebook can see their messages, ..
Facebook’s use of machine learning to predict the types of content users are most interested in seeing in their News Feeds has been chronicled often through the years, but the social network is also working on potential ways to predict the treatment and resource needs of Covid-19 patients as part of its ongoing collaboration with ..
Just over 11 miles separate Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., homes to fierce basketball rivals the University of North Carolina and Duke University, respectively. While the flames of that rivalry hardly require any further stoking, a new billboard in Durham may do just that. Fox Sports encouraged college basketball fans to vote via Twitter last ..
Facebook and Facebook Ireland filed a lawsuit in Portugal against two individuals for scraping user profiles and other data from its website, calling their actions a violation of the social network’s terms of service, as well as Portugal’s Database Protection Law. Director of platform enforcement and litigation Jessica Romero said in a Newsroom post Thursday ..
Google said Thursday that its Ads Data Hub was accredited by the Media Rating Council for SIVT-filtered (sophisticated invalid traffic), rendered and viewable video ad impressions and TrueView views generated via the Ads Data Hub user interface and application-programming interface. The company added that as of Thursday, Comscore, DoubleVerify, Dynata, Kantar, Integral Ad Science, Moat ..
As has been the case for most major events since last March, screens are replacing the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES 2021, and Pinterest is helping brands on its platform re-create the CES experience on those screens. Pinterest said its top customers are using its platform to share the full-in person experience of CES ..
TikTok Wednesday implemented several privacy and safety measures aimed at protecting its users under the age of 18. The default privacy setting for all registered accounts for users between the ages of 13 and 15 was set to private, meaning that only people approved by those users can view their videos. The comment setting for ..
Twitter took enforcement action against 4,658 accounts for misleading information about Covid-19 during the time period between when it implemented its policies last March and June 30, 2020, and the social network’s automated systems challenged 4.5 million accounts that were targeting discussions around Covid-19 with spammy or manipulative behaviors, according to the 17th Twitter Transparency ..
Enterprise platform Workplace From Facebook added a Safety Center and made some improvements to its live video experience. Recommended articles https://www.adweek.com/media/workplace-from-facebook-adds-safe..
