Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its X post about its €120M fine of X; X terminates the EC's ad account
to post a link that deceives users into thinking it's a video and to artificially increase its reach. As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it...
Free Our Feeds, backed by Jimmy Wales and others, aims to raise $30M by 2028 to billionaire-proof the AT Protocol by making it easier for Bluesky users to leave
The non-profit social media foundation space is really heating up. Ciarán Mather / Silicon Republic : Campaign aims to protect Bluesky's tech from billionaires Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hulk sma...
Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as “actively pregnant” or “shopping for maternity products”
Gizmodo identified 32 brokers selling data on 2.9 billion profiles of U.S. residents pegged as … Tweets: @swodinsky , @jjvincent , @swodinsky , @caitlinrcruz , @spekulation , @robinberjon , @andrewcou...
A recently unredacted antitrust complaint alleges that Google gives AMP a “nice comparative boost” by throttling load times of non-AMP ads via one-second delays
The Chrome Dev Summit concluded earlier this week. Announcements and discussions on hot topics impacting … Tweets: @robinberjon , @jameshercher , @joshhostels , @andrew_morgs , @triblondon , @adriaan...
Thursday's OCSP service-related issues highlight the fact that macOS sends a hash of every app that users run, along with the users' unencrypted IP, to Apple
Security researcher Jeffrey Paul, writes in a blog post … Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Deeper look at Apple's recent server outage reveals potential Mac privacy concerns Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : iOS ...
Study on behavioral ad targeting finds that publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn't
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @johnwilander , @jason_kint , @robinberjon , @hoofnagle , @ashk4n , and @profcarroll . Thanks: @cremnob Tweets: John Wilander / @johnwilander : “Publishers...
Predictim, a service using AI to generate character scores for babysitters based on years of online activity, provides questionable recommendations to parents
When Jessie Battaglia started looking for a new babysitter for her 1-year-old son, she wanted more information … Tweets: @zeynep , @justinhendrix , @katecrawford , @ai , @carnage4life , @etbrooking , ...