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Meta settles lawsuit with Justice Department over ad-serving algorithms

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Outside investigations have provided evidence in support of the Justice Department’s claims, including a 2020 paper from Carnegie Mellon that showed that biases in Facebook’s ad tools exacerbated socioeconomic inequalities.

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The Demise of Third-Party Cookies in AdTech: Why Are They Being Phased Out?

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In 2019 Firefox also made a step towards protecting user privacy and introduced a feature called Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) that started to block third-party cookies by default. There was also a 7% drop in the number of news sites that host third-party social media content, such as sharing buttons from Facebook and Twitter.

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Beyond the Blog Post: 21 Inspirational Branded Content Examples

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Rather than producing content that solves people’s problems (which is still effective and useful), they started creating content that their audience would find entertaining and binge-worthy. First, they looked to media companies for inspiration. HootSuite is a social media management tool. Instagram Ads. Audience Network.

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