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8.Focus on visuals: They all prioritize images and have designers on hand to create infographics. They gave examples, such as Coca-Cola’s Royal Baby announcement, and MasterCard’s Grammy Awards infographics. (image)

“The providers of social networks are responsible when their platforms are misused to spread hate crime or illegal false news,” German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in a statement. The proposed law would apply only within German borders. But Maas said Wednesday he would press for similar measures across the European Union. A number of European countries have also sought to counter the fake-news scourge. The Czech Republic recently inaugurated a special unit charged with denouncing false reports. Should the German measure become law, however, experts say it would amount to the boldest step yet by a major Western nation to control social-media content. Depending on how obviously false or illegal a post is, companies would have as little as 24 hours to remove it.

In addition to fake news and hate speech, the draft bill would target posts seen as inciting terrorism or spreading child pornography. Officials have cited a surge of hate speech across the Internet as a major factor behind the rise of far-right violence in Germany, including arson attacks at refugee centers and assaults on police officers.

One of the companies most affected by the bill is Facebook, which has sought to sidestep such laws by taking voluntary measures to curb the spread of fake news. The company echoed concerns that the bill would wrongly foist upon corporations a level of decision-making on the legality of content that should instead reside with German courts.

Rather than setting a new standard, officials also say they are simply forcing social-media outlets to comply with existing laws governing hate speech and incitement in Germany. Incitement and defamation laws here are far broader than in the United States; for instance, laws on the books forbid defaming German leaders and make denial of the Holocaust a crime.

Middle and upper income teens lean toward Instagram and Snapchat

Teenage girls use social media sites and platforms — particularly visually-oriented ones — for sharing more than their male counterparts do.

Where confusion or inconsistency sets in is around Agile, the methodology, and the use of it in marketing. Agile helps reinforce a culture of agility by providing structure that drives marketers to be iterative, flexible, customer-centered, and focused on priorities of high-value. Many CMOs are unfamiliar with the Agile Methodology used in software development and its application to marketing. We are seeing adoption grow, but it’s still a new concept in marketing.

As CMOs become more and more responsible for growth, they have an unprecedented need for speed and flexibility.

Marketers who wait to deliver a big splash are not taking advantage of real-time ways to infuse market feedback into the development process.

Having learned a good representation for emoji, we can begin to ask questions about similarity. Namely, for a given emoji, what English words are semantically similar? For each emoji, we compute the “angle” (equivalently the cosine similarity) between it and other words. Words with a small angle are said to be similar and provide a natural, English-language translation for that emoji.

Using our algorithm, we find that many of our popular emoji have meanings in-line with early internet slang:

It seems that the most popular emoji have similar semantics to words like “lol/hehe” (

Many clusters emerge: food emoji on the left, opposite the work emoji in the top right. Shoes (bottom right) are associated closely to handbags while bathing suits are closer to the water and marine animals (top left). Alcoholic drinks (bottom left) cluster together with bowling. Towards the center, we see a large clustering of facial expressions bordered by sadness, shock, laughter, happiness and coolness. As we travel downwards, we can see happy, love leading all the way the family and wedding emoji.

On Instagram, emoji are becoming a valid and near-universal method of expression in all languages. Emoji usage is shifting the people’s vocabulary on Instagram and becoming an important means of expression: their use is anti-correlated with internet slang like “lol” and “xoxo.”

Actions A suite of action buttons are now featured prominently near the top of Pages. These buttons enable people to take actions like book an appointment for a haircut, order a pizza, send a message or write a Recommendation.

More visibility for stories Since launching stories in 2017, Facebook has been experimenting with ways to make it easier for people to engage with your story and with this update, people can view your business story by tapping on the Page profile photo.

Events ticket sales 700 million people use Facebook Events each month and now businesses will be able to sell tickets directly through Facebook Pages. Facebook is also creating event-specific ads to help with promotion and marketing.

Boeing has found itself playing defense to a storyline that suggests the company was more interested in profits than people in the rush to produce an aircraft that accounts for about a third of its revenue.

According to crisis communications scholar Timothy Coombs, corporate openness is defined by a company’s availability to the media, willingness to disclose information and honesty. Boeing failed in all three regards. And the few statements it has issued are chock-full of platitudes – such as “safety is a core value” – and lack meaningful information

. The best way to demonstrate its commitment to safety is not with platitudes but concrete actions that reveal openness and accountability. Research has shown that transparency and honesty are key to effective communication in a crisis.

respondents overall predicted business will become more ethical over the next 5 years. When asked specifically about the PR industry, 9 of 10 predict the profession will be the same or more ethical. This is important because three out of four students tell us that ethics play a very or extremely important role in their choice of PR as a career.

Three-fourths of professionals told us their agency or department has a code of ethics. While 92% also think the PR industry needs its own generally accepted code of ethics, only 59% believe that a dedicated organization should play the role of ethics enforcer.

The median age of adult U.S. Twitter users is 40, while the median U.S. adult is 47 years old.

Although less pronounced than these differences in age, Twitter users also tend to have higher levels of household income and educational attainment relative to the general adult population. Some 42% of adult Twitter users have at least a bachelor’s degree – 11 percentage points higher than the overall share of the public with this level of education (31%). Similarly, the number of adult Twitter users reporting a household income above $75,000 is 9 points greater than the same figure in the general population: 41% vs. 32%. But the gender and racial or ethnic makeup of Twitter users is largely similar to the adult population as a whole.