Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35%
We may never know if the administration-brokered TikTok sale complies with the law … New York Times : Trump Clears Way for American-Owned TikTok Valued at $14 Billion Financial Times : TikTok US to be...
Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, on the whirlwind first two weeks under Elon Musk, Twitter's content moderation approach, and more
Poynter : Twitter: @asegar See also Mediagazer Twitter: Adrian Segar / @asegar : Informative; worth reading #InsideTwitter https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
Donald Trump and Facebook have both decayed since his ban, and despite his unpredictability and tech's recent wild swings, his reinstatement may not matter much
Trump is key to social media company's success Travis Gettys / Raw Story : Trump official: Former president would look ‘pathetic’ if he returns to Facebook — and destroy his ‘useless’ Truth Social pla...
The Oversight Board's decision on Trump's Facebook ban failed to send a clear message that a powerful public official can't use Facebook to endanger the public
and heated — reactions to Trump's suspension Siva Vaidhyanathan / The Guardian : Facebook is pretending it cares how its platform affects the world Marietje Schaake / Los Angeles Times : Op-Ed: Facebo...
An early analysis of Birdwatch, Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking pilot with about 1,000 users, shows partisan rhetoric and a lack of source citations
A Poynter analysis found that less than half of Birdwatch users include sources and many fact-checking notes contain partisan rhetoric.
WhatsApp announces two initiatives to combat COVID-19 misinformation: an Information Hub in partnership with WHO and others, and a $1M grant to Poynter
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
WhatsApp announces two initiatives to combat COVID-19 misinformation: an Information Hub in partnership with WHO and others, and a $1M grant to Poynter
but is was fake. How @WhatsApp is now the misinformation frontline https://www.politico.eu/... w/ @JanoschDelcker & @zosiawanat See also Mediagazer
Global Disinformation Index study finds that adtech companies spend ~$235M per year running ads on sites found by fact-checkers to publish misinformation
Poynter : Tweets: @zimbalist , @dpfunke , @karlbode , and @michellemanafy See also Mediagazer Tweets: Michael Zimbalist / @zimbalist : About those ad-supported disinformation sites: Google served abo...
Analysis of 14M tweets from May 2016 and March 2017 found bots accounted for 34% of shares of articles from low-credibility sources but were only 6% of accounts
Daniel Funke / Poynter : Tweets: @brendannyhan See also Mediagazer Tweets: Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan : The latest on bot prevalence and effects: -Bots increase exposure to negative & inflammatory...
A look at Facebook's month-long rollout of its fact-checking tool and its partners in Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Colombia
Daniel Funke / Poynter :