Federal records show that Facebook has more than tripled its federal lobbying spending since 2009, from about $200,000 to more than $730,000 this year. Much of Facebook’s recent lobbying activity has focused on net neutrality and privacy issues. Read more.
When kids feel connected and have a strong sense of belonging to the school community, they do better in school. They persist in school at higher rates and achieve at higher rates. … It’s pretty promising that engaging in social networking sites could help them to develop and deepen their bonds over time.
Professor Christine Greenhow of the University of Maryland. Greenhow’s new research has found that students build important bonds when they connect with school friends on social networking sites. Read more.
Facebook seeks exemption from ad disclosures
Palo Alto-based social networking giant Facebook is seeking an exemption to rules that would require political advertisements on the site to disclose the source of their funds, according to a letter submitted to federal regulators by company attorneys.
The letter, first obtained by Talking Points Memo, argues that limits on the size of Facebook ads makes including required disclosure language impractical. Federal campaign regulations require political advertising to disclose who paid for and authorized it, but the Federal Election Commission has allowed exceptions in certain cases.
Facebook is seeking an exemption similar to those that apply to bumper stickers, text messages, buttons and other small items. Ads on the social networking site are limited to a 25-character title and 135 characters of body text, according to the memo. A disclaimer (think “Paid for by Obama for America”) can take up a significant amount of that space. Read more
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When will sites like Twitter, Facebook, PayPal and others – with their hundreds of millions of users and massive caches of everything from cell-phone numbers to unique computer IDs – begin handing personal information over to the government? Available documents shed light on such questions.
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