Starlink experienced a network outage for about 2.5 hours on Thursday; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels”
What Caused The Global Outage And Is It Back Up Yet? Abdullah Asim / PhoneArena : Starlink goes down mere hours after T-Mobile's service goes live Reuters : Musk's Starlink says it is experiencing maj...
YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content
The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ's Russia indict...
Analysis: Google and Bing show deepfake porn images of female celebrities atop search results for their names plus “deepfakes”, “fake nudes”, and other terms
Google and other search engines include nonconsensual deepfake porn in top image search results alongside tools … X: @cecianasta , @cecianasta , and @benjamingoggin X: Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianast...
Meta's Supplemental Privacy Policy for Threads says that “your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account”, surprising some users
Exactly How Private Is Meta's New Twitter Challenger? NBC 7 San Diego : Meta's Twitter Rival Threads Explodes to 50 Million Signups One Day After Launch Rael Hornby / Laptop Mag : How to delete Twitte...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures
even after Ron DeSantis' glitchy campaign kick off Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Twitter's Flaws Snag Elon Musk's Media Ambitions Steve Peoples / Associated Press : DeSantis set to make m...
Sex educators, adult stars, and sex workers complain about Instagram, saying Meta's moderation has gotten more punitive and less predictable since SESTA-FOSTA
Cherie DeVille lives in perpetual fear of losing her 3.7 million Instagram followers. — DeVille is a well-known porn star who also has an OnlyFans account. Tweets: @ashleylatke , @ashleylatke , @kat...
HBO and HBO Max receive 140 Emmy nominations, while Netflix gets 105, Hulu 58, Apple TV+ 52, Disney+ 34, Amazon 30, and broadcast network TV a new low of 86
Apple, anti-gun violence messages dominate category Washington Post : Emmy nominations 2022: ‘Succession’ earns most nods; ‘Squid Game’ makes history Tweets: Atima Omara / @atima_omara : A very niche ...
Spotify's recent Podsights and Chartable acquisitions are raising concerns over the availability of third-party podcast metrics for advertisers and publishers
Alyssa Meyers / Morning Brew : Tweets: @tgwilson , @calistoker123 , and @ryanbarwick Tweets: Tim Wilson / @tgwilson : Umm...? 'nary a mention of how the industry has *happily* relied on Facebook's/Go...
A look at the focus on disinformation by media, tech, and academic leaders, and how assumptions about disinfo effectiveness echo old media and advertising myths
In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours … Tweets: @karlbode , @karlbode , @daveyalba , @daphnehk , @noupside , @b...
Many viewers are experiencing the Olympics primarily through TikTok, with some of the most-watched videos coming not from NBC but from athletes themselves
The Olympics through the lens of TikTok look widely different than TV — When NBC's “Today Show” told viewers that gymnast Simone Biles … Tweets: @davejorgenson See also Mediagazer Tweets: Washington...