







We've also tried Facebook marketing. In this blog post we describe our successes and failures with the marketing channel Facebook.
Facebook Wants to Help Sell Every Ad on the Web
Facebook will help marketers show ads to non-Facebook users who visit websites and applications in its Audience Network ad network.

Publishers fearing Facebook dependency: fight for your future, reinvent RSS.
Right now Facebook accounts for over 40% of all traffic for U.S. news organizations, making many dependent on the social network for…

Meta’s “Trusted Experts” helped me run scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
A Reuters reporter created ads promising unrealistic investment returns and easily placed them on Meta's social media platforms.

How to Fix Facebook—Before It Fixes Us
An early investor explains why the social media platform’s business model is such a threat—and what to do about it.

How we fought bad ads in 2015
Here are some of the top areas we focused on in our fight against bad ads in 2015.

The Truth About Social Media as an "Advertising Industry," Bluesky's Gamble, and "Reclaiming Conversation" - Nightflight
Tracking Harris and Trump’s Ad Spending on Facebook and Instagram
Meta’s Ad Library is free to use, and provides useful insights into how politicians and their campaigns are advertising on social media platforms.

Wages for Facebook - Dissent Magazine
The art campaign Wages for Facebook is an attempt to unsettle the digital marketization of our relationships that many of us have already come to accept as normal.

Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses | TechCrunch
After 20 months in a closed beta under the working title Facebook at Work, (as we predicted it would the other week) today Facebook is finally

Vote Leave's targeted Brexit ads released by Facebook
The social media ads that helped Vote Leave win the EU referendum are published in full for the first time.

Debunking the science of advertising
We delve into the world of advertising, worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, to find out if it's really even that effective. A collection with 3 stories from The Correspondent.

Bluesky is the one! 10 top tips for joining the growing social media platform — Ned Potter
Bluesky is great, and it’s really starting to build now: in fact in under two months it has doubled to 12.5 million users [edit - since I wrote this 5 weeks ago it’s doubled again, to 24 million!]. It’s especially good for individuals seeking to rebuild their professional and personal networks away

First post: A history of online public messaging
From BBS to Facebook, here’s how messaging platforms have changed over the years.

Note from Mark Zuckerberg
Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.

What I Learned Burning $13,867 on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan
Explains how expensive it is to advertise on YouTube, what is involved in launching a campaign and finally tweaking it towards profitability.

Money as Message | Andreessen Horowitz
Network effects — where a product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it — are one of the key ways software businesses maintain a better product and more defensible market position. This is especially true of messaging apps like WeChat — which, as I’ve argued before, is not just...
