News Highlights: Wakefern launches CitrusAd Retail Media Technology Wakefern Meals Corp. has embraced new advertising and marketing engineering. The retailer-owned cooperative has introduced CitrusAd’s retail media technologies for sponsored merchandise and show advertising and marketing on its ecommerce platform. CitrusAd’s deep knowledge and very first-hand awareness of retail is driving […]
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Is social media an influential technology or an insurrectionist tool? :Status Report
Portion of “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso, 1937. [Licensed under Creative Commons] On January 7, when Facebook suspended the US president’s account, followed on January 12 by Twitter suspending his account there, the response moved needles. “These actions,” wrote Prof. Ethan Zuckerman of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for CNN.com, […]
Technology, social media help law enforcement track down Capitol rioters
Supporters of President Donald Trump riot against the Electoral College vote count on Wednesday in protest of Trump’s loss to President-elect Joe Biden, prompting a lockdown of the Capitol Building. Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI | License Photo The rioters breach the security perimeter and penetrate the U.S. Capitol. Photo by […]
Tech experts overwhelmingly approve of Trump suspensions from social media
with Aaron Schaffer An overwhelming majority of tech experts surveyed by The Technology 202 said social media companies made the right decision to suspend former president Donald Trump’s accounts following the Capitol violence. “It seems extremely straightforward,” said Jen Pahlka, a former U.S. deputy chief technology officer and founder of […]