A campaign group has complained to the US Federal Communications Commission over its refusal to erase fake comments from a consultation on net neutrality.Fight for the Future’s complaint is signed by 14 people who say their details were used without permission to file anti-net neutrality views.The campaign group says that some of the comments were posted using the names and details of dead people.The FCC has voted two-to-one to reverse net neutrality laws enacted in 2015.The vote was the first stage in the process of repealing the legislation designed to force internet service providers to treat all data traffic as equal.Americans now have until the middle of August to comment on the proposals.

Utmaningen är inte att hitta influencers, det är att hitta rätt influencers.De som använder sociala nätverk lägger i genomsnitt 7,1 timmar i veckan åt just det. Det är en ökning på 50% de senaste tre åren. Statistiken fortsätter visa att användandet av vissa plattformar inte sjunker som vissa förutspått, utan snarare tvärtom, trafiken ökar och plattformarna blir flera.Av generationen som är uppväxta med mobiler, datorer och internet säger sju av tio att de köper det som influencers bär eller använder. Marknadsföring via sociala profiler är idag med i mångas marknadsplaner via passande plattformar som bloggar, Instagram, Youtube eller Snapchat. Influencers blir mer eftertraktade, driver sina egna varumärken som bolag och är mer medvetna om vad de önskar förknippas med. Det är alltså inte helt enkelt att fånga deras intresse längre. I takt med att antalet influencers ökat så är det idag inte svårt att hitta influencers, utmaningen är att hitta rätt influencers.- Det kan kännas läskigt att testa marknadsföring med influencers första gången, men när man väl testat så kommer de flesta kunderna tillbaka. Sakta men säkert flyttas budgetar från andra medier till Influencer Marketing som även är lättare att mäta än till exempel tv, radio och tidningar. Det bygger även större trovärdighet, säger Babak Faramarzian VD på Cure Media.

The UK must keep its doors open to top talent from around the world if its technology firms are to thrive, Apple’s chief designer has told the BBC.Sir Jonathan Ive, who has just been appointed Chancellor of the Royal College of Art, also said that technology hubs like Silicon Valley had a ”tremendous cultural diversity”.The iPhone designer did not comment on efforts to curb UK immigration.Some technology firms fear they may lose access to talent after Brexit.”That general principle [on access] is terribly important for creating a context for multiple companies to grow and in a healthy way explore and develop new products and new product types,” Sir Jonathan told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

E-mails stolen in a phishing attack on a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin were manipulated before being published on the Internet. That’s according to a report published Thursday, whoch also asserts that the e-mails were manipulated in order to discredit a steady stream of unfavorable articles.FURTHER READINGRussia-linked phishing campaign behind the DNC breach also hit Podesta, PowellThe phishing attack on journalist David Satter’s Gmail account was strikingly similar to the one that hit Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta last year. The attack on Satter looked almost identical to the security warnings Google sends when attackers obtain a subscriber’s password. Code embedded inside led Satter to a credential-harvesting site that was disguised to look like Google’s password-reset page. With that, the site automatically downloaded all of Satter’s private correspondence.

China’s police have arrested 44 people over a scam whoch saw many as 93,000 people contribute start-up capital to ”unfreeze” assets smuggled overseas when the Nationalist government was overthrown in 1949, police authorities said late on Thursday.The criminal network used Wechat and other communication tools to encourage people to pay 10 yuan ($1.46) for membership in a scheme whoch promised returns of as much as 50,000 yuan ($7,280) once the assets were unfrozen, the Ministry of Public Security said in a notice on its website (www.mps.gov.cn).The ministry said that it had busted a total of 15 criminal groups involved in the scam since investigations began in October 2016. The fraud involved more than 950 million yuan ($138.34 million).The public security ministry said earlier this month that it had already set up 32 provincial and 206 city centers dedicated to cracking down on online and telecom fraud. It said it uncovered 83,000 cases last year, up 49.6 percent compared to 2016.

When Facebook launched Instant Articles in 2015, the crux of the platform was clear: A “faster” and “rocher” news experience for users that did not infringe on Facebook’s advertising operation. But things did not go as well as hoped and news outlets have had a tough time generating as much revenue per Instant Article as they have from pages on their own websites. In response, Facebook’s retooled the platform with support for two competing standards: Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) and Apple News.