Snapchat turns off Solar System, which lets users see their position in their friends' orbits, by default, after a report said it was adding to teens' anxiety
Did the designers truly not anticipate this as a likely outcome? — https://techcrunch.com/... X: @brij : Good call by Snapchat. These engagement features were adding real stress to young girls I am ...
How some news accounts on Instagram, including Mo News and Jessica Yellin, are gaining popularity even as the platform tries de-emphasizing political content
and self-monetizing — quick hot takes about the fewer and fewer original reported stories being paid for by dying news outlets doing actual journalism. It's got a real Ponzi scheme feel to it all. htt...
How some news accounts on Instagram, including Mo News and Jessica Yellin, are gaining popularity even as the platform tries de-emphasizing political content
In this year's presidential election, more people are turning to Instagram for news, even as the platform tries de-emphasizing “political content.” X: @katie_robertson , @baekdal , @davidsirota , @sap...
OpenAI details GPTBot, which the company uses to crawl the web for data to improve its AI models, and how site admins can opt out using robots.txt
GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler and can be identified by the following user agent and string. Emilia David / The Verge : Now you can block OpenAI's web crawler Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land : GPT...
A San Francisco Police department training document notes that video footage from continuously recording autonomous vehicles can be obtained as evidence
and they never should be. Giving the police access to the massive amounts of information they collect is a recipe for abuse. https://www.vice.com/... @becomingdatasci : Cops have access to doorbell ca...
Apple now lets “reader” apps link to websites for creating or managing user accounts, after the company gives access to an External Link Account Entitlement
that a LOT of their “services revenue” is a 30% commission from sleazy games exploiting gambling psychology to extract money from people, many of whom are children — is SO uncomfortable that they keep...
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I'm getting really ti...
When trying to address problems that social media may cause for young people, lawmakers focus on Facebook and largely ignore TikTok, which most teens use
YouTube is the undisputed master of this strategy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : Of, for that matter, the rest of the media where we have a very long and well documente...
As some YouTube advertising rates drop by as much as 50% while viewership rates are up, YouTubers say their pay has dropped dramatically
Advertising rates on the platform have dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic — Newspapers, websites, and TV channels have all been decimated by the coronavirus. Tweets: @travisshreff...
Facebook's corporate comms have felt combative and sloppy since late 2018, and now even rank and file employees are facing public vilification
Teen Vogue. Wednesday - Boz memo. Thursday - election advertising announcement. Friday - Zuck 10 year goals. Busy week of generally horrible press. https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton ...