Two major efforts to undermine online harassers, the Super Bowl’s takeover of social media, Mark Zuckerberg’s new focus on video, and the Snapchat IPO—read about it all on this week’s #MMSocialReport. 

1. Collection of 13,500 Nastygrams Could Advance War on Trolls

by @tsimonite via @techreview 

In the fight against online abuse, the team behind Wikipedia has joined forces with Google. They have already gathered a collection of over 13,500 personal attacks from Wikipedia’s discussion pages. Now they are working on developing algorithms to help interpret and handle them.

2. Twitter rolls out new features to silence its most abusive users — finally

by @MelanieHannah via @mic

Twitter, too, announced a similar effort to combat abusive users in its platform. Learn about the features in their new update addressing this issue. 

3. Super Bowl Game, Ads, and Half-Time Show Invade Social Media

by @nelsongranados via @forbes

The Super Bowl’s cultural significance is not news. However, the way in which people used social media to experience it can be quite shocking. For example, there were 5.1 million tweets about Lady Gaga’s half-time performance, which lasted under an hour.

4. Mark Zuckerberg sees video as a ‘mega trend’ and is gunning for YouTube

by @mishcastillo via @CNBC

A few years ago Zuckerberg betted on mobile and won. Here he explains why he’s now putting his money on video.

5. Everything you need to know about Snapchat and Snap’s IPO

by @dhpierson, @traceylien, and @peard33 via @latimes

Snapchat will be going public.  The @latimes breaks the process and its consequences down for us. 

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