Month: September 2018

Tesla’s Elon Musk appeared to smoke marijuana during a live interview, in which he spoke for more than 2½ hours on topics ranging from the dangers of artificial intelligence to his use of Twitter.

The leader of Verizon Communications’ media and advertising business is in talks to depart, leaving unfinished the task of building the unit into a digital content giant.

President Trump felt the wrath of gun control advocates earlier this year when he suggested that teachers carry guns during school to prevent mass shootings. Just days after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day, the president said an armed teacher would have “shot the hell” out…

Falling for fake news is more common in the US, but both countries underestimate others’ ability to spot it.

A projected 50.7 million pre-K-12 students will return to the classroom in U.S. public schools this fall. As the school year gets underway, read key findings about America’s students and their experiences.

How can Facebook grab some TV dollars? Facebook prides itself on figuring out how to make things easy for advertisers.

The robots are taking over user acquisition on Facebook and Google, and that’s (mostly) a good thing. Whenever one of the large platforms automates an aspect of UA, it means more time for focusing on strategy and creative rather than drudgery, said Jess Hasenplaugh, head of UA at Berlin-based mobile game studio Wooga. “I’m happy… Continue reading »

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A new series called “Kidding” has Carrey playing a kiddie-show host whose private life is unraveling.

Lured by the site’s 2.234 billion monthly users, marketers have flocked to Facebook in droves, driving a disproportionate share of the growth in digital ad spending. But nagging questions swirling around third-party data usage and the changes ignited by the Cambridge Analytica firestorm are forcing marketers to get creative with their ad-targeting strategies. As marketers…

Around 170 journalists, writers and content producers have pledged not to write for the news and culture website The Outline after layoffs on Tuesday left the publication without any staff writers. Study Hall, a collective of more than 1,000 journalists, released a statement on Wednesday criticizing the publication’s founder, editor in chief Josh Topolsky, for…