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Dalet Digital Media Systems | Booth SL6210 | Website: http://www.dalet.com/ Dalet Digital Media Systems will be presenting the evolutions of its range of solutions. Based on the Dalet Galaxy orchestration […]

Marketers who are suing Facebook over inflated video metrics shouldn’t be able to proceed because they didn’t say in their class-action complaint that they relied on Facebook’s metrics when buying the ads, the social networking service says.

Cox Media Group’s WFTV has a comfortable lead among local media outlets on social according to Shareablee data, while Fox O&O WOFL pulls ahead in overall fans/followers. WFTV’s news director says the market’s penchant for viral stories — plus an embrace of Facebook Live — is helping buoy its social efforts.

The syndicated Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen reports record digital traffic in March. The show, produced by Telepictures Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, said it […]

Twitter on Friday dropped a lawsuit it had filed a day earlier against the U.S. government, saying in court papers that the government had withdrawn a summons for information about an account critical of President Donald Trump.

People who search for a topic in Google’s main search engine or the Google News section will see a conclusion such as “mostly true” or “false” next to stories that have been fact checked.

Twitter is suing the US government to prevent the Trump administration from forcing it to reveal who’s running an anti-Trump account. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Twitter says an arm of the Department of Homeland Security used a “limited-purpose investigatory tool” in an effort to unmask the identity of the person or people behind @ALT_uscis, an account that criticizes the administration’s management of US Citizenship and Immigration Services. USCIS is part of DHS.

The resource, similar to previous efforts around privacy and security, is basically a notification that pops up for a few days. Clicking on it takes you to tips and other information on how to spot false news and what to do about it. Adam Mosseri, VP of News Feed at Facebook, said he hopes people will become “more discerning consumers” of news.

Facebook is making ever-growing inroads with local advertisers, but broadcasters needn’t see that as a threat to push back against. Analysts agree there’s more of an opportunity for broadcasters who embrace it as a “sticky complement” to their own platforms.

The graphics systems broadcasters rely on daily to make news, sports and weather reports more appealing and informative have advanced quite far — so much so that quality has become a given. To differentiate themselves, vendors now are focusing on the finer points like tighter workflow integration. But that’s just one of the many trends broadcasters can expect in graphics systems on the exhibit floor at the 2017 NAB Show. (Ross Video photo) Click here to access TVNewsCheck’s NAB 2017 Resource Guide listing of broadcast graphics vendors and products, or here to download it as a PDF.

In markets both big and small, tweets still made up the majority of social media posts for local TV broadcasters in the fourth quarter of 2016 despite Facebook’s huge advantages in both audience size and ability to drive engagement on social media, according to Share Rocket data.

Facebook has lost a legal fight against a New York City prosecutor who sought search warrants for hundreds of user accounts. The New York state Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that while the case raised important questions about privacy it was “constrained” by the law relating to who can challenge search warrants.

Share Rocket data will be delivered via BIA/Kelsey’s broadcast products. Featured will be the addition of Share Rocket’s station-level social media data for the top 100 U.S. local television markets to BIA/Kelsey’s data and analytical software. The venture will also include industry initiatives designed to examine social media audiences of local TV stations.

Over the years, Google trained computer systems to keep copyrighted content and pornography off its YouTube service. But after seeing ads from Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart appear next to racist, anti-Semitic or terrorist videos, its engineers realized their computer models had a blind spot: They did not understand context. Now teaching computers to understand what humans can readily grasp may be the key to calming fears among big-spending advertisers that their ads have been appearing alongside videos from extremist groups and other offensive messages.

Raycom’s KFVS dominates its local peers on social media according to Shareablee data. A rich, socially-competitive station culture is making that happen with anchors, meteorologists and reporters jockeying to be the most connected with viewers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has found more creative ways to ease its 140-character limit without officially raising it. Now, the company says that when you reply to someone – […]

Facebook is rolling out an app update. With it, you can tap a new camera icon on the top left corner. That opens up the phone’s camera to do a photo or video post. You could have posted photos from the app before, but it took an extra tap. Once you open the camera, you’ll find Facebook’s other new Snapchat-like features, including filters that can be added to images.

The Twitter and Instagram accounts for NBC-owned WRC led the Washington market with a 29 share as a group, followed by Fox-owned WTTG with a 28.7 share and Tegna-owned WUSA with a 28.5 share, according to data from Share Rocket.

Gray Television’s CBS affiliate KWTX leads all other local media in social media performance in Waco, Texas, according to Shareablee data. Its news director says keeping a local focus on Facebook is what viewers want most.

Just over a year ago, Facebook introduced its video streaming service Facebook Live and invited one and all to give it a try. Many broadcasters have accepted the invitation and are using it effectively for breaking news and interactive shows. It brings new dimensions to local TV news, but so far no meaningful additional revenue.

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News said three of its Twitter accounts were hacked Thursday morning, sending out profanity-filled tweets to its millions of followers. The tweets have since been […]

Closing your social media accounts can help protect your privacy, but it can also mean cutting yourself off from friends, family and opportunity.

Twitter has officially announced the Periscope Producer application program interface aimed at adding new ways of sharing live video on Twitter for media companies and broadcasters. The move emphasizes its push toward increased live video ahead of its NewFronts appearance.

Just as YouTube is feeling the heat from advertisers, Instagram is looking to make its feed more family-friendly: The Facebook-owned photo sharing service announced Thursday that it is starting to blur out photos that it has found to be “sensitive.”

Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that live video is the future of Facebook, but what if that future is terrifying and full of violence? What happens when one of the largest proponents of live video struggles to manage its darker side? With live video charging ahead, how can Facebook identify and stop those who would abuse its streaming service?

Facebook officially enters header bidding Wednesday on the news that the social site has developed a partner program to support third-party technology on its platform. Rather than build the technology, Facebook will work with several technology partners to develop best practices that the company will use as guidelines for how it will run a partner program.

Facebook has started rolling out its third-party fact-checking tool in the fight against fake news, alerting users to “disputed content”. The site announced in December it would be partnering with independent fact-checkers to crack down on the spread of misinformation on its platform.

Facebook Live has become the preferred platform for video-centric breaking news at Scripps despite some newsroom pushback and concerns about limits on editorial control and the ability to make money from the streams. Above, a story from WFTX Ft. Myers-Naples, Fla., that aired in January.

Facebook has been repeatedly accused of facilitating and magnifying an ecosystem of websites that spread false information and conspiracy theories across the platform. That criticism led Facebook to begin collaborating with “third-party fact checking organizations” to identify stories that don’t hold up to scrutiny, and warn users when they try to post these stories. This is what happens when you try to share a fake story on Facebook.

The person who shares a news story on social media is more important than the story’s actual source in determining whether readers believe it, a study by the Media Insight Project has found.

Tribune-owned Fox affiliate WGHP holds a whopping lead among local outlets on social media in the Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem DMA according to Shareablee data. Its news director says a deeply involved team of veteran talent is driving it.

With a continued focus on improving its reporting metrics, Facebook has quietly made further changes to rename its metrics and definitions related to advertising measurements. The move aims to increase consistency and clarity around the data it measures. The changes will begin rolling out Tuesday to advertisers.

TV newsrooms across the U.S. weigh in with their emerging best practices for winning audience engagement on Facebook Live. Those range from letting audiences decide how to follow up on a story to building an API connection between a newsroom’s digital content management platform and Facebook Live. Pictured is Live@13 WHAM, an example of how news organizations are using digital-only shows to stand out. 

It’s no longer just traditional budgets that are under siege by the social media site. It’s pulled ahead of Google in local markets by offering simple products. Gordon Borrell talks about what makes the site so appealing to local advertisers, how much it stands to grow and why Facebook could stay relevant for years to come.