After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, Including A “Black Qu...
X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads
While former President Donald Trump was actively being convicted by a jury of his peers in New York City last week … Threads: @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @theromit , @moskov , @drewharwell , @...
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive
There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple. Threads: @eshumarneedi , @lscottspe...
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
a delightful & depressing social lubricant blending short-term euphoria w/ long-term regret that offers to young consumers a messy cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and dependency. Social media is...
Instagram's search remains a haven of vaccine misinformation, a year after Facebook said it wouldn't show such content on Instagram Explore or hashtag pages
Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost : Tweets: @jessreports , @mosseri , and @tonyajoriley Tweets: Jesselyn Cook / @jessreports : Respectfully, people *do* search for vaccine info on Instagram. There's a very ac...
Amid a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, some US critics think Facebook should leave the country, but many critics in Myanmar say that's not a good idea
April Glaser / Slate : Tweets: @thantmyintu , @aprilaser , @aprilaser , @aprilaser , @willoremus , @jenleephd , and @kevinroose Tweets: Thant Myint-U / @thantmyintu : Facebook doubtless has had an en...