Facebook users are forwarding humorous pepper spray photos that actually have a serious message: Expressing outcry over Lieutenant John Pike, the University of California at Davis policeman spraying peaceful student demonstrators at point-blank range.
Some 51 percent of social media users have posted political messages on their Facebook wall, yet only about one-third (36 percent) have changed their mind on an issue based on the political content a friend posted on social media.
Experian Hitwise is hosting a webinar tomorrow on how social media will affect the 2012 elections.
Facebook users posts complaining that the mainstream media isn’t covering 12 days of demonstrations may have had the desired effect: coverage of Occupy Wall Street, which protests corporate influence over U.S. politics and no resolution of the global economic crisis.
Facebook’s ticker, timeline and Open Graph create a feedback loop that drives social discovery, engagement, and targeting opportunities. Here are seven suggestions on how to leverage this in marketing efforts.
Facebook confirmed that it had filed the required documents to launch its own political-action committee.
Meet the company that has introduced members of Congress to Facebook advertising.
We spoke with a Facebook strategist for Texas Governor Rick Perry’s presidential campaign.
U.S. political liberals claim their posts on Republican Facebook pages are unfairly being censored.
The violent riots and looting in London and other major cities around the U.K. this past week have dominated the British mainstream press and kept a nation on tenterhooks, fearful as many were that their own towns and villages were just one hooded teenager away from all-out chaos.
