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...
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...
Yik Yak, the app that creates anonymous message boards for users within a five mile radius, returns to the US iOS App Store after its 2017 shutdown
Find Your Herd — iPhone Screenshots — YIK YAK IS BACK! Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge : Local and anonymous social media app Yik Yak is back José Adorno / 9to5Mac : Yik Yak for iOS is back after a f...
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking
James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @hkanji , @jason_kint , @tiffanycli , @davi...
Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website
privacy breach on invite-only app raises concerns Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE : This Website Made Clubhouse Conversations Public Becky Bracken / Threatpost : Assume Clubhouse Conversations Ar...
An explainer on digital advertising's header bids, third-party brand safety vendors, and “evercookies”, illustrated by a ubiquitous pajama onesie ad
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Analysis: of the 60 biggest brands that paused Facebook ads in 2020, only ~10 continue to do so, and some of those have kept spending using other Facebook tools
This past summer, dozens of major brands pulled their ad dollars from Facebook in a protest of the company's handling of the hate speech and disinformation. Tweets: @hkanji , @jason_kint , @wooky2000 ...
The only explanation for its ad campaign against Apple is that Facebook has decided shamelessness works, after years of cozying up to the Trump administration
For most of the past week and a half, this image has been stuck in my head: John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Facebook Wades Into Epic's Dispute With Apple Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : Facebook criticize...
Facebook updates its hate speech policy to ban statements denying the existence of marginalized groups and an additional eight specific dehumanizing comparisons
Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo : Tweets: @sirsteven , @joshconstine , @swodinsky , @joshconstine , @caseynewton , @gizmodo , @joshconstine , @liz_shepherd , @yoda , @caseynewton , @yoda , and @caseynewt...
How YouTube trampled dozens of companies as it grew over the years, from ad brokers like AppNexus to content networks like Vevo and Machinima
monetization. No one can compete with AdSense. No one ever has. How do we know? Remember the promise of Vine at VidCon in 2015? I do. https://twitter.com/... Dieter Bohn / @backlon : TikTok was everyw...