04/09/2018

How New Social Media Restrictions Could Affect Your Team

The moves could make life much harder for your social media team

The two most prominent social media platforms have put the clamps on their application programming interfaces (APIs)—and that could make life a lot harder for your association’s social media managers.

This week, Facebook announced a series of changes related to its response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the data firm acquired millions of social media records through illicit means. (Facebook’s announcement revealed that up to 87 million users were affected by the Cambridge Analytica data leak—up from the original estimate of 50 million.)

Among the changes Facebook announced was a series of limitations to several APIs for Facebook features that common third-party tools might use, including Events, Groups, and Pages. Third parties will need to get approval from Facebook to implement the APIs in their services.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.