Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts
The Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification. — That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous. — www.thev...
Sources: Meta is talking to crypto firms about introducing stablecoins for managing payouts, and in January 2025 hired a VP of product with crypto experience
Three Years After Diem Rony Roy / crypto.news : Meta may be eyeing stablecoin payments for Instagram creators Samuel Edyme / Bitcoinist.com : Stripe Expands Crypto Offerings With Stablecoin Accounts a...
Kamala Harris is courting crypto investors and pro-crypto Democrats in Congress, as some prominent Democrats temper their initial skepticism of crypto assets
For Now Yves Smith / naked capitalism : Progressives Sound Alarm as Harris Courts Crypto Industry David Dayen / American Prospect : Not Enjoying the Mark Cuban for President Campaign Jasper Goodman / ...
A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Chew's testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of TikTok
“[T]he day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway through Project Texas or productively address industry-wide issues of youth safety.” ...
Telegram says it is blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets in the EU, including all RT channels, starting for users who signed in with an EU-based phone number
RT, in English, Spanish, Germany, French & Russia, have a colletive audience of over 1 million people via their official accounts. FWIW, these break EU sanctions https://www.politico.eu/... Derek Powa...
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...
Facebook says it will take down a video of Trump suggesting people vote twice in North Carolina “unless it is shared to correct the record”
with significant consequences—for one of the most important elections in recent history. That should not be lost in the dust of who these changes will hurt or benefit. https://www.nytimes.com/... Doom...
Some advertisers participating in the ad boycott remain unimpressed with Facebook's promises to better police hate speech, as negotiations continue
and the extent of Facebook's response—will likely depend on how big this boycott gets” https://www.wsj.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : It also continues to baffle just how slow Facebook is to crack...
Of the top 25 Facebook advertisers in 2019, which include Uber and Netflix, only three, Microsoft, Starbucks, and Pfizer, have said they are pausing ad spending
the ones with presumably the most leverage — have stayed quiet https://www.cnn.com/... Barry Ritholtz / @ritholtz : Walmart, Wells Fargo, Uber, Netflix, Domino's, American Express. AT&T, among big bra...
ConsenSys launches an automated service to track the regulatory compliance of the 280K+ tokens issued on Ethereum
and more than 280k #Ethereum based tokens now on the market—to the financial mainstream. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark ‘brrRizzn’ Hopkins / @rizzn : Regulatory compliance seems silly for DeFi whe...