The Supreme Court agrees to hear two cases concerning whether Florida and Texas can restrict social media companies from removing political posts or accounts
I have no guess how this will go. — Both states have had crushing backlash from their political scandals and freedom inhibiting legislation, so wanting to restrict criticism while spreading their ow...
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs fell to 8M on July 31, down 82% from launch; the daily average time spent fell from 19 minutes per day at launch to 2.9 on August 1
Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges — https://www.cnn.com/... #social #threads Bluesky: Brian Fung / @brianfung.me : Threads user engagement has fallen to new lo...
A congressional investigation led by Senator Elizabeth Warren finds popular tax filing tools “recklessly” sent data, like income, to Meta and Google for years
https://www.cnn.com/... Mastodon: Paul Cantrell / @inthehands@hachyderm.io : Just beating my old drum: — The fines involved could tip some of these companies into bankruptcy. — That's good. — Co...
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua
Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX Matt Novak / Forbes : Russia's RT Editor-In-Chief Thanks Elon Musk For Scrapping ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label On Twitter ChinaTechNews.com : Elon Musk Drops All Media Label...
AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features
As Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in his new shareholder letter … Matt Garman : I'm really excited about the AWS announcement today around our new generative AI capabilities. Amazon Bedrock makes generat...
US senators unveil the bipartisan RESTRICT Act to let the US ban foreign-linked app and hardware makers the Commerce Department deems a national security risk
the bill he and other lawmakers are introducing today that could lead to a TikTok ban — will also allow the Commerce Dept. to take action on suspected foreign spying risks in AI, fintech, quantum comp...
Sources: The White House has given feedback on a draft bipartisan TikTok bill and is considering asking Congress for more legal powers to police certain apps
Banning tiktok doesn't do anything meaningful. Data brokers will happily sell your data to tiktok. … Tweets: Karl Bode / @karlbode : gizmodo is one of the only outlets consistently pointing out that ...
Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say a Twitter API paywall would jeopardize studies of influence campaigns and platform manipulation
Are you affected? … Tweets: Rebekah Tromble / @rebekahktromble : It's official. Academic researchers have started getting notices that their access to the API will be shut off. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
The DOJ sues Google, joined by California and seven other US states, calling for the breakup of its ad tech business that allegedly monopolizes the US ad market
1. An open, vibrant internet is indispensable to American life. Lauren Feiner / CNBC : DOJ files second antitrust suit against Google, seeks to break up its ad business Wall Street Journal : DOJ Sues ...