A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users
Threads is a place for everyone. No following required. Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : The lack of “content creators” and “influencers” on Threads is probably one of its biggest selling points...
Biden administration is working with Gen Z For Change, a nonprofit advocacy group, to brief top TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post : Tweets: @aaronparnas , @monster_manager , @ddiamond , @donie , @coxsports1 , @natemcdermott , @daveweigel , @taylorlorenz , and @taylorlorenz Tweets: Aaron Parnas / ...
Public records and a 2019 version of its user guide show just how invasive AnyVision's facial recognition software can be; AnyVision's customers include schools
One school using the software saw that a student's face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week Tweets: @evan_greer , @evan_greer , @jessedamiani , @themarkup , and @alfredwkng Tweets: Evan...
A look at Parler, backed by Rebekah Mercer, which has doubled its user base to 10M in a week, but unlike Facebook and Twitter leaves moderation to users
primarily the removal of spam, threats of violence, or illegal activity—is handled by ‘community jurors’, all currently volunteers.” https://www.wsj.com/... Hayes Brown / @hayesbrown : So.........not ...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Someone leaked an hour of audio from Clubhouse last night where Balajis, Felicia Horowitz, and other...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize against you This is t...
Instagram “tag cleaners” have flooded a murdered user's tagged photos with pleasant images to combat trolls and drown out tagged images of gore
Over the last few days, a teenager named Taylor has spent more than a dozen hours uploading north of 900 photos to Instagram. Tweets: @megan_nicolett , @megan_nicolett , and @kevinroose Tweets: Megan ...
Kids googling themselves for the first time face shock, frustration, and sometimes excitement at content parents had been posting about them since their birth
Googling yourself has become a rite of passage. — For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Tweets: @theatlantic , @histoftech , @...
As shilling products has become a sign of success for influencers, up-and-comers on Instagram are posting fake sponsored content to boost their credibility
Tapping through Palak Joshi's Instagram Stories recently, you might have come across a photo that looked like standard sponsored content … Tweets: @caseynewton , @ldrogen , @dkthomp , @spencerpratt , ...
Users say harassment is rampant on Instagram, and some employees say efforts to stem it are not funded well or prioritized
When Brandon Farbstein first joined Instagram in 2014, he was 14 and optimistic. Farbstein was born with a rare form of dwarfism, and he wanted to use … Tweets: @elcush , @taylorlorenz , @taylorloren...