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...
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...
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...
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...
How Philippine's President Duterte utilized Facebook, used by 97% of Filipino internet users, to spread his message before weaponizing it to target dissent
Rodrigo Duterte walked down the aisle of a packed auditorium at De La Salle University in downtown Manila, shaking hands and waving … Tweets: @bafeldman , @chafkin , @peterwsinger , @carlfranzen , @sa...
Reporter details pressure from Google and bosses to take down 2011 Forbes post criticizing Google practices with Plus and search; Google says info was under NDA
What if we formed a human chain to let people … Jon Martindale / Digital Trends : Journalist claims Google used strong-arm tactic to get story taken down Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : Forbes removed a...
Tumblr's uncertain future demonstrates the difficulty of monetizing internet culture, as do the fortunes of Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and even YouTube
Brian Feldman / New York Magazine :