Social Media Daily News Roundup 15.07.19
Todays social media news rounded up in one place so you don’t have to go anywhere else.
🍍Facebook Embeds 'Hidden Codes' To Track Who Sees And Shares Your Photos, Report
🍍The Era of Organic Instagram Reach is Almost Over: Study Of Over 300K Accounts Reveals Engagement Rate on Influencers Posts is Dwindling
🍍Facebook 'to be fined $5bn over Cambridge Analytica scandal'
🍍Social Media Star Slammed For 'Endangering' Horse For Instagram Picture
Facebook Embeds 'Hidden Codes' To Track Who Sees And Shares Your Photos, Report - Forbes
Facebook has become synonymous with privacy violations in the year since Cambridge Analytica came to light. Now in the same week that details of the record $5 billion FTC fine emerged, an Australian cyber researcher has reopened a years-old debate as to whether the social media giant is embedding "hidden codes" in photos uploaded by users onto the site.
"Facebook is embedding tracking data inside photos you download," Edin Jusupovic claimed on Twitter, explaining he had "noticed a structural abnormality when looking at a hex dump of an image file from an unknown origin only to discover it contained what I now understand is an IPTC special instruction."
Instagram is one of the most popular social apps nowadays. It is a platform of people from a variety of categories. People use this app to create unique content and create their own special place to make them stand out. Instagram is used for all sorts of purposes, from being an entertainment platform to a network promoting products or influencing people with food or travel-related stories.
Engagement of any account is measured by comparing the average likes on each Instagram post to the number of followers of the account. People use different techniques to reach organic engagement on their accounts and to be featured on the Explore page.
Facebook 'to be fined $5bn over Cambridge Analytica scandal' - BBC News
Facebook and the FTC told the BBC they had no comment on the reports.
US regulators have approved a record $5bn (£4bn) fine on Facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations, reports in US media say.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been investigating allegations that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained the data of up to 87 million Facebook users.
The settlement was approved by the FTC in a 3-2 vote, sources told US media.
Social Media Star Slammed For 'Endangering' Horse For Instagram Picture - Ladbible
Social media has brought rise to the classic term 'influencer'; a person with tons of followers and likes, who will take pictures of themselves or their environment (but it's usually of themselves).
This influencer culture is pushing people to up the ante in order to get a shot that no other influencer has on their profile.
One Instagrammer and YouTubber has recently copped a lot of flak, with her followers accusing her of taking it a little too far in order to show off her trip to a gorgeous island.