World History Encyclopedia, the second most visited history site, says its traffic fell 25% in Nov. 2024 after AI search tools began presenting its information
World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. Then traffic dropped 25%. Bluesky: @xsalty1 , @olicommish , @kantrowitz , @bcmerchant , a...
How Shein and Temu, which are spending billions on digital ads and offering steep discounts or free products, have become big threats to Amazon in the US
In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business … X: @joshuaogundu , @kantrowitz , @lmatsakis , and @kantrowitz X: Josh / @joshuaogundu...
Sources: following Haugen's leaks, Meta sought to divide lawmakers along partisan lines to forestall regulation, as Zuckerberg told employees not to apologize
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg drove response to disclosures about company's influence; sending deputies to testify in Congress Tweets: @mrjohnflowers , @samidh , @startupljackson , @eliotwb , @kantr...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn says WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower has turned over documents and plans to reveal their identity “at some point down the line”
Happy Thursday and welcome to The Technology 202! Below: Meet “Help Desk,” a new initiative our colleagues are launching … Tweets: @donie , @nicoleperlroth , @talkopan , @kantrowitz , @viacristiano ,...
Investigation details how safeguards for Facebook's Marketplace, which has 1B MAUs, can fail to protect buyers and sells from scams, fake accounts, and more
ProPublica : Tweets: @craigsilverman , @craigsilverman , @craigsilverman , @kantrowitz , @alanmillernlp , @bandler_james , @craigsilverman , @ericuman , @dicktofel , and @propublica Tweets: Craig Sil...
The controversies around Substack miss the point that it is just a tool for sovereign writers, who are in control as they are paid directly by subscribers
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week … Tweets: @mohamed , @nbj914 , @paulconstant , @grimmelm , @susie_c , @lorcand , @jesse...
Workplace chat apps may alter work conversations the way social media alters public discourse, leading to issues like internal divisions and group harassment
Slack and its counterparts ‘create problems, high school-type problems,’ one CEO said — Sitting among peers at a gathering a few years ago … Tweets: @sub8u , @ozm , @ozm , @medium , @lordravenscraft...
As workspace usage of Slack and Microsoft Teams soars, lawyers see an uptick in harassment claims, as messaging is more informal and often misinterpreted
Chat applications have become a major way employees stay connected, but some see an uptick in agitation and bullying Tweets: @carnage4life , @chrisharihar , @kantrowitz , @kpyszczyk , @jaycuthrell , @...
Twitter to leave up a tweet about a “full-blown ‘hot’ civil war” by a far-right militia with almost 24,000 followers; the militia was quote-tweeting Trump
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @mat , @sivavaid , @monteiro , @kantrowitz , @dangillmor , @buzzfeednews , @retail_risk , and @peterme Tweets: Mat Honan / @mat : With Twitter's decision toda...
Facebook is taking the same self-assured approach to safety that it has with products, but it is strange to see the company be so proud of cleaning its own mess
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @buzzfeednews , @kantrowitz , @kantrowitz , @melissaryan , and @johnpaczkowski Tweets: @buzzfeednews : Facebook celebrated booting far-right extremists from ...