Ex-Facebook Director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content”
and Mine, The Audacity of Copying Well Sean Burch / The Wrap : Meta Pivots Away From Protections, Guardrails as Trump 2.0 Looms Mat Smith / Engadget : The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking...
Interviews with 70+ sources describe how Facebook and Instagram have become major sales platforms for child trafficking and can often be slow to remove content
Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex Tweets: @anniekelly , @hrrbfiresafety , @gdnlo...
Donald Trump and Facebook have both decayed since his ban, and despite his unpredictability and tech's recent wild swings, his reinstatement may not matter much
Trump is key to social media company's success Travis Gettys / Raw Story : Trump official: Former president would look ‘pathetic’ if he returns to Facebook — and destroy his ‘useless’ Truth Social pla...
Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm
Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Tweets: @violazhouyi , @ebakerwhite , @mashaborak , @katienotopoulos , @iblametom , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , and @cfarivar See also Mediagazer Tweets:...
Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm
Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Tweets: @ebakerwhite , @mashaborak , @violazhouyi , @katienotopoulos , @iblametom , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , and @cfarivar See also Mediagazer Tweets:...
Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook's News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy
to pay Rupert's and the Germans' blackmail, actually—without paying for links. Danny Denhard / @dannydenhard : Most people forget Facebook is ahead of the curve when it comes to who shares, what they ...
Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats
Read in app Isaiah Poritz / OpenSecrets.org : Facebook maintained big lobbying expenses ahead of Senate hearing on teen social media use Robin Raskin / Techonomy : Instagram for Kids: Doomed from the ...
Facebook internal report: US users are reading more COVID-19 content from “higher-quality” sources based on its ranking of top publishers adopted last year
> Is Facebook really a “news powerhouse” again, thanks to coronavirus? (No more than it was before) https://www.niemanlab.org/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : The top four news publishers on Facebook right n...
Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings
Some years ago an investor I met at a TechCrunch … Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg : McKinsey Is ‘Horrified’ That Saudi Arabia Report May Have Been Misused CNET : Twitter employee may have spied on users fo...