Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era
with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... @clar...
Facebook's employees and third-party fact-checkers say Facebook has sometimes overruled decisions on divisive content with little transparency
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @taraemcg , @marietjeschaake , @jason_kint , @craigsilverman , and @rmac18 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Tara McGowan / @taraemcg : ""They are the arbiters of the consequences f...
Snap says it has stopped promoting Trump's account in Discover, after a tweet from days ago about protesters at the White House meeting “ominous weapons”
my team on @PeteButtigieg's campaign relied on it to reach young voters during tentpole moments like debates, rapid response, and GOTV. https://twitter.com/... Tara McGowan / @taraemcg : Trump + @pars...
Overview of major efforts by Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Laurene Powell Jobs to boost Joe Biden's chances in the upcoming election
Eric Schmidt's data play, STAC Labs, is run by Martha Laning, the former head of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. #wipolitics https://twitter.com/... Cate Long / @cate_long : “Republicans have invested...
While traffic surges on Facebook, with messaging up 50% from last month in many countries, their now-remote workforce struggles to handle its own IT snafus
in 2020, GOOG will generate $54.3B operating income (43% margin) and FB will pull in $33.7B (49% margin), per revised forecast by Cowen & Co. https://variety.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Facebo...
Facebook internal report: US users are reading more COVID-19 content from “higher-quality” sources based on its ranking of top publishers adopted last year
> Is Facebook really a “news powerhouse” again, thanks to coronavirus? (No more than it was before) https://www.niemanlab.org/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : The top four news publishers on Facebook right n...