Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more
they are using so much of it no single creator or publisher matters, and they're striking deals to keep the loudest happy. Sort of good that @zuck just came right out and said it on Decoder so everyo...
Sources: before iOS privacy changes, Apple and Facebook discussed ways to share revenue, like an ad-free, paid version of Facebook and IAP for “boosted posts”
The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook Tweets: @patiencehaggin , @sal19 , @jason_kint , @nickstatt , @mgsiegler , @...
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources
a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here: https://www.theverge.com/... Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Leaving even more room for new startups to re-build the social gr...
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
a delightful & depressing social lubricant blending short-term euphoria w/ long-term regret that offers to young consumers a messy cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and dependency. Social media is...
YouTube defends choice to leave up election misinformation videos, saying such videos are “not being surfaced or recommended in any prominent way”
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A Facebook SDK crash caused iOS apps like TikTok and Venmo to crash on Wednesday, showing the need for Apple to sandbox third-party SDKs from an app's own code
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Analysis: thousands of people are organizing via private group chats, message boards, Twitter, Instagram, more to execute coordinated “Zoombombing” campaigns
Here's How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of ‘Zoombombing’ Matthew Finnegan / Computerworld : Zoom pauses new feature development to focus on privacy, security Nick Statt / The Verge : US federal law enfo...
As part of Safari's privacy push, it will delete a site's local storage, like Indexed DB, after seven days of inactivity, hamstringing Safari's offline web apps
time to ditch Chrome? Sleyhane / New board topics in Shopify Community : Safari 13.1 and embedded apps John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Safari Now Has Full Third-Party Cookie Blocking Eli Blumenthal / ...
Some popular apps send sensitive info to Facebook via the company's analytics SDK, such as a user's heart rate, intent to get pregnant, and home listings viewed
Rise of ‘Surveillance Capitalism,’ China and Iran Go Hacking, Facebook as ‘Digital Gangster’ NBC News : Use an app to track your period? That data and more could end up with Facebook, WSJ reports John...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says open racism, including use of slurs, isn't against Reddit's rules and that communities can set their own standards around language
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