Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone
Vice-president JD Vance pushed for right-wing media star's inclusion in a deal for video app — Alex Rogers in Washington … Bluesky: @evelyndouek , @justinhendrix , @paleofuture , @ebakerwhite , and ...
India bans 20 YouTube channels and two websites for alleged “anti-India” propaganda from Pakistan, invoking its new IT Act's emergency powers for the first time
The Economic Times : Tweets: @sidhant , @sidhant , @ajitsinhjagirda , and @evelyndouek See also Mediagazer Tweets: Sidhant Sibal / @sidhant : India's I&B ministry details the list of you tube channel...
Zoom joins the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, founded by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube to combat terrorist and extremist content
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters : Tweets: @nicholasrasmu15 and @evelyndouek . Thanks: @eculliford Tweets: Nicholas Rasmussen / @nicholasrasmu15 : Very pleased to be welcoming @Zoom and their great team...
Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face
False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications. Tweets: @carnage4life , @evan_greer , @derekwillis , @shanoorseervai , @peterham...
Internal memo: Andrew Bosworth says Meta's virtual worlds need “almost Disney levels of safety” but moderation at “meaningful scale is practically impossible”
from keeping a platform safe to correctly enforcing your own app store acceptance policies—seems to be impossible. https://www.ft.com/... Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy : He also says third party VR ...
NewsWhip: interest in Facebook, measured by social media interactions per article, declined over 2021, with little mainstream attention for “Facebook Papers”
The Facebook Papers and whistleblower accounts were a public relations nightmare for Facebook, but so far … Tweets: @daveyalba , @axios , @jason_kint , @stevekovach , @nrothschild3 , @sarafischer , an...
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I'm getting really ti...
Roblox's efforts to engage an older audience while maintaining a safe environment for its youngest users offer a roadmap for other internet platforms
The company, which went public earlier this year, has lessons for other internet outfits aiming to attract younger users even as its own audience gets older. Tweets: @insideroblox , @evelyndouek , and...
A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members
The app has created a space free of the problems that plague the rest of the Web, but only by leaving almost everybody out. Tweets: @michaelluo , @kari_paul , @dlippman , @chaykak , @newyorker , @simo...
When trying to address problems that social media may cause for young people, lawmakers focus on Facebook and largely ignore TikTok, which most teens use
YouTube is the undisputed master of this strategy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : Of, for that matter, the rest of the media where we have a very long and well documente...