YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even
At Nancy Ann Ling's house in Central Texas, the TV generally goes on around 5 a.m., and Mrs. Ling flips over to the same app each day: YouTube. X: @katherinemiller and @katherinemiller . Forums: Slash...
[Thread] Substack quietly added a feature that forced subscribers to download the app to read full newsletters, but says it reverted the change after complaints
Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : X: @shakeelhashim , @gergelyorosz , @gergelyorosz , @gergelyorosz , and @leozera See also Mediagazer X: Shakeel / @shakeelhashim : I've been livid about this all week,...
Analysis: agencies have hired hundreds of thousands of “chatters” to impersonate 4M+ OnlyFans creators, as many Filipino chatters struggle with mental health
Michael Beltran / Nikkei Asia : X: @johnaglionby See also Mediagazer X: John Aglionby / @johnaglionby : “We're professional catfishers, but we all need the paycheck.” Filipino @OnlyFans ‘chatters’ ex...
A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom
Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire … X: @elatable . Bluesky: @mranthropology , @turoczy , @metacurity.com , @sauthoff , and ...
X data: Elon Musk-backed America PAC spent $166K between July 8 and October 1 to run 59 ads on X targeting swing voters in six states, yielding 32M+ impressions
America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform's ad disclosure data. X: @mediaevan and @silvermanjacob Forums: r/Enough...
How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls
An illustration of a man sitting on a green chair reading a newspaper called “World News” as he looks at his phone behind it.Jackson Gibbs X: @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac See also Mediagazer X: Rat King ...
Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube
Sara Fischer / Axios : X: @johnvoelcker See also Mediagazer X: @johnvoelcker : An AI-generated story using @Forbes' original reporting without appropriate credit led to an AI-generated podcast ... an...
Copywriters detail how AI is affecting their jobs, with some noticing a new line of work to make AI-generated text sound more human, a job that pays a lot less
If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future. X: @thomasgermain , @drantoniowrites , @carnage4life , @kristadiamond , @thomasgermain ...
Q&A with Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on running the world's foremost open source intelligence agency, AI-generated content, legal accountability, and more
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits … X: @eliothiggins and @jeffnesbit . LinkedIn: Nathan May See al...
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebrities like CNN and Paris Hilton, are getting hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM
The compromised accounts include CNN and Paris Hilton — and all users have to do to be hacked is open a DM. X: @ebakerwhite See also Mediagazer X: Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite : Update: we've lear...