A look at My Friends My Data, a group of startup founders pushing for legislation to force tech giants like Meta to let creators transfer followers between apps
A new coalition of start-ups is calling on tech giants to allow creators to reach followers on more platforms. Tweets: @carnage4life , @joshconstine , @ianbetteridge , and @taylorlorenz See also Media...
Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple's IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses
“Stop inventing shittier trains” — really encounters a perfect, crystalline example. https://twitter.com/... Laura Bassett / @lebassett : I don't really want to hear anything about the journalism busi...
Recording of Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Section 230 where Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai testified
bringing in Zuckerberg, Pichai, & Dorsey to defend their content moderation under threat of gutting Section 230, days before the election—feels like a last-ditch effort to spook them out of enforcing ...
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies
Watch and Connect — iPhone Screenshots — Facebook Gaming welcomes you to a new world of gaming. FP Trending / Firstpost Tech : Facebook Gaming launches official app on iOS without instant gaming f...
President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States
and people are blaming Sarah Cooper, who may have hurt his feelings Joshua Keating / Slate : TikTok Could Have Been China's Nintendo Kaya Yurieff / CNN : ‘Everyone is going cray cray’: TikTok users fr...
Facebook says it is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone launched a year and a half ago, on July 10
the highest it has ever had — in Mexico — its biggest market — on June 1, according to App Annie. It had so few users on iOS, and it struggled so much in other markets, that App Annie could not track ...
Facebook shares proposed bylaws for its oversight board, which some have called a content moderation “supreme court”, that leave Facebook firmly in control
essentially a “Supreme Court” of content decisions. What we kind of already knew, but what the bylaws confirmed, is this group will NOT make decisions quickly. It could take months. https://www.bloomb...
Instagram expands its fact checking efforts by hiding false content behind warnings, except for politicians, and removing it from Explore and hashtag pages
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Facebook now requires some page owners to disclose the orgs running them and if they're tied to state-owned media, will add labels to pages run by state media
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Facebook executives, from Zuckerberg to Sandberg to Marcus, have argued that more US regulation aids Chinese rivals, but this assertion is far from clear
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