Twitter says recent “fluctuations in follower counts” of high-profile accounts after news of Elon Musk's takeover were “organic”, but is still looking into it
for one thing, if you're leaving Twitter over Elon Musk, you're not exactly apolitical. https://twitter.com/... Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : If this is really organic, as the company asserts, the...
Facebook is piloting Campus, a section specifically designed for college students to interact with peers at their school, at 30 universities around the US
Facebook unveiled a new product today called Facebook Campus … Daniel Golightly / Android Headlines : Campus Returns Facebook To Its College Roots, Sort Of David Cohen / Adweek : It's Back to School f...
California-based software company Esri's ArcGIS software is powering coronavirus dashboards for more than 3,700 organizations worldwide
With roughly a zillion different sources out there for coronavirus information, experts and authorities are rapidly iterating on ways to best present useful information to the public. Tweets: @mountai...
Facebook to allow influencers to produce sponsored content for US politicians and political campaigns, if the posts are clearly identified as paid partnerships
and that system has always been completely broken.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Rob Price / @robaeprice : In October 2019, Facebook employees raised concerns internally that ordinary users would...
Profile of Adam Mosseri, who sees Project Daisy, which will eliminate public display of Instagram Likes later this year, as a way to “depressurize the app”
or a team—whose job was to care for users, like an ombudsman/chaplain hybrid, focused less on users' technological experience than on the emotional + psychological. https://www.nytimes.com/... Elana Z...
Facebook's tactic of announcing features to a small minority of its users often garners positive press coverage, even if the features aren't live for most
Yesterday, Facebook announced an uncharacteristically useful tool, one that would transfer photos from a user's Facebook account to their Google Photos account. Tweets: @yoda , @mikeisaac , and @bafel...
Facebook supports 111 languages, but translates content rules to just 41, and its moderation staff speaks ~50; deficit leaves it struggling to monitor content
NAIROBI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's struggles with hate speech and other types of problematic content are being hampered … Tweets: @yolandavalery and @bafeldman See also Mediagazer Tweets...
In his interview, Neal Mohan disingenuously fails to mention that YouTube gives users a heavily weighted single recommendation after each video via autoplay
Brian Feldman / New York Magazine : Tweets: @dtunkelang Tweets: Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : YouTube chose to make autoplay a default. So it is disingenuous for YouTube to deny responsibility for...
Sources: Andy Rubin left Google with $90M after credible sexual misconduct allegation; one accused executive left with a big exit package while another remained
starting with this bombshell story. http://twitter.com/... Keith Boykin / @keithboykin : Rich people get rewarded for bad behavior, but working class people get vilified simply for asking for a living...
Twitter CEO addresses claims about some Republican leaders not appearing in search auto-suggestions, points to a thread that offers explanation and vows changes
and what it isn't … There's a shadow of a doubt. Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller : Twitter Algorithm Buried Republicans For Something Totally Out Of Their Control Aroon Deep / MediaNama : Twitter deni...