The data is from circa 2012-2014: For the first time in Pew Research findings, more than half (56%) of internet users ages 65 and older use Facebook. Overall, 71% of internet users are on Facebook, a proportion that represents no change from August 2013. Source: Social Media Site Usage 2014 | Pew Research Center 70% of Facebook users log in to Facebook daily.
Google and Facebook are a duopoly for online digital advertising. Through their ad placement programs, they are now – basically – using heavy handed automated content filters that censor out many videos. The result: “YouTube is on the fast track to becoming Disney vloggers: beautiful young people that wouldn’t say anything controversial and are always happy.” Google and Facebook are indeed so powerful that they now censor ordinary speech.
This is also true of CNN, News.Yahoo.com and numerous other mainstream media web sites that allow advertisers to display fake news headlines as click bait. An investigation found paid-for hoaxes about high-profile public figures next to users’ news feeds, duping them to click to alleged scam websites. Source: Facebook promoted scam ads based on fake news headlines | News | The Times & The Sunday Times We see this on sites like news.yahoo.com and cnn.com, both of which have many…
This is also true of CNN, News.Yahoo.com and numerous other mainstream media web sites that allow advertisers to display fake news headlines as click bait. An investigation found paid-for hoaxes about high-profile public figures next to users’ news feeds, duping them to click to alleged scam websites. Source: Facebook promoted scam ads based on fake news headlines | News | The Times & The Sunday Times We see this on sites like news.yahoo.com and cnn.com, both of which have many…
Crackdowns on fake social media accounts are unlikely to hurt the multi-million-dollar spam industry — in fact, it could make the problem far worse. Source: Crackdowns on Social Media Accounts Backfire by Driving up Demand – NBC News Because fake accounts offer big profit opportunities, there is much money to be made as a fake account creator and broker.