X's pivot to video mirrors past social media trends, but its reliance on user-generated videos from TikTok and other platforms may not ensure long-term success
X's New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : X Calls Itself ‘Indispensable’ With 8B Minutes And 1.7M New Users Every Day — But Users Question If It's Making Money X: John H...
Google says there are no plans to remove the News tab on search results pages, after testing temporarily removing the filter for “a small subset of users”
but the deck is often stacked against them. Threads: Sheila Dang / @sheiladangit : I don't understand how removing the News tab is helpful to anyone https://www.niemanlab.org/... Kali Hays / @kalihays...
Source: Parler has ~50,000 DAUs and its parent company Parlement had been trying to sell the social network for the past few weeks at a “wildly inflated” price
conservative opportunists have seen the partisan split emerging across Big Tech and decided they want a piece of the action. But instead of innovating — which is hard — they pump out crappy copies of ...
An in-depth look at OnlyFans agencies, which manage hundreds of models' accounts and use teams of ghostwriters to chat with subscribers in private messages
Clever marketers have figured out how easy it is to simulate online intimacy at scale, ventriloquizing alluring models with cheap, offshore labor. Tweets: @justinhendrix , @liamstack , @walldo , and @...
An in-depth look at the baseless conspiracies attempting to turn Bill Gates into the pandemic's villain, widely shared on Facebook and YouTube
with his tech-made money and philanthropic efforts to improve public health — has become an avatar of populist rage at those who possess technical fluency, an elite education, and well-stamped passpor...
Sources: Accenture has sent a form to Facebook content moderators working at a European facility requiring them to acknowledge that their job could cause PTSD
or else Mehreen Kasana / Input : Report: YouTube moderators forced to sign legal documents acknowledging possibility of PTSD BeauHD / Slashdot : YouTube Moderators Are Being Forced To Sign PTSD Forms ...
Sources: Accenture is making its YouTube content moderators sign a document acknowledging that performing the job can cause PTSD
Accenture comes clean with its workforce — as part of an apparent legal defense — Content moderators for YouTube are being ordered to sign a document acknowledging … Tweets: @russellbrandom , @casey...
El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan, shows how its /pol/ board deliberately radicalizes users into mass shooters and gamifies massacring people
lone shooter, assault rifle, online manifesto, a link to a live stream—appears to be contagious. https://www.newyorker.com/... Dave Zatz / @davezatz : @Techmeme 'Let's do nothing because it's just not...
How the big tech platforms including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, who've pledged to provide accurate information during major crises, are failing miserably
How Google Could Really Help Journalism Dave Winer / Scripting News : Journalism people say Google is bad at journalism. April Glaser / Slate : Facebook's Safety Check For the Las Vegas Shooting Promo...