A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users
Threads is a place for everyone. No following required. Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : The lack of “content creators” and “influencers” on Threads is probably one of its biggest selling points...
Rep. David Cicilline says he plans to introduce a bill with antitrust exemption for publishers, letting them negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook
ON STAGE AT a tech conference last month, Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships, fired a warning shot to publishers who think they get a raw deal from Facebook. Tweets: @scottthurm , @a...
Free speech online has grown even as Facebook, Google, Twitter control more attention; most effective censorship now is meddling with trust, not muzzling speech
FOR MOST OF modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being mechanically disseminated. Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci . Tweets: @zeynep , @umairh , @shapshak , @codi...
Profile of 82-year-old Alan Patricof of Greycroft Partners, investor in NYMag, Apple, and AOL, and an active VC today with exits like HuffPo and Maker Studios
PASSING THE TORCH: Patricof (center) with partners Ian Sigalow (left) and Dana Settle in the kitchen of Greycroft's New York offices. Tweets: @e_rossiello , @jkaldor3 , @anthony , and @micahjay1 Tweet...
Facebook reports Q3 profit of $4.7B, up 79% YoY; revenue of $10.3B, up 47% YoY, vs. $9.84B expected; headcount hits 23,165, up 47% YoY
for Now Sarah Frier / Bloomberg : Facebook Tops Sales Projections While Russia Ad Inquiry Unfolds Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Facebook beats in Q3 with $4.7B profit, record share price despite Russia...
During congressional hearing, Facebook's general counsel said 120K Instagram posts from Russian-linked accounts reached 16M Americans from Oct '16 to election
or we will’ Tweets: Anthony De Rosa / @anthony : FB/Google/Twitter say Russia didn't upload voter registration data for ad targeting. That's a significant admission. Peter Kafka / @pkafka : That's up ...
US Justice Department confirms arrest of NSA contractor accused of stealing classified information
Snowden Says ‘This Is Huge’ Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek : Another NSA Contractor Charged With Theft of Classified Info Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes : After Snowden, Another Booz Allen Contractor Accus...
Apple sells a record 74.5M iPhones in Q1, a 46% YoY increase, 21.4M iPads, a 21% decrease
Here's Why Larry Dignan / ZDNet : Apple needs the iPad to be ‘long arc,’ enterprise driven Fred Donovan / FierceMobileIT News : Record-setting profit at Apple couldn't prevent slide of iPad Joe Wilcox...