Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether
Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube
The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean. But innovation is relentless …
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic
written after Apple's new App Store ad format placed gambling ads next to gambling addiction apps — as the antecedent rebuttal to the NYT's piece this weekend that questions why, a...
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic
written after Apple's new App Store ad format placed gambling ads next to gambling addiction apps — as the antecedent rebuttal to the NYT's piece this weekend that questions why, a...
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic
written after Apple's new App Store ad format placed gambling ads next to gambling addiction apps — as the antecedent rebuttal to the NYT's piece this weekend that questions why, a...
Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon
even a “Trump resistance” score. Yes, you too may have a “QAnon Believer” score. https://www.nytimes.com/... Julia Rosen / @juliarosen : The one when the NYT discovers models and s...
Apple appears to be expanding its ad platform team, currently around 250 strong, per LinkedIn; Apple's career page lists 216 roles, up from 56 in late 2020
Move adds to industry concerns after tech giant launched privacy rules that make it hard to tailor ads to iPhone users
A look at the presentiment that social media is bad for society, as some researchers find the fears are overstated and others warn about effects on individuals
There's a general sense that it's bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. Tweets: @brendannyhan , @kreissdaniel , @sivavaid , @kreissd...
A look at the presentiment that social media is bad for society, as some researchers find the fears are overstated and others warn about effects on individuals
There's a general sense that it's bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. Tweets: @brendannyhan , @kreissdaniel , @sivavaid , @kreissd...
Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta this fall after 14 years, and chief growth officer Javier Olivan will take over as COO; Sandberg will stay on Meta's board
Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. Source: Sheryl Sandberg .
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased
Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content
Overview of House lawmakers' recent antitrust-focused bills, which target consumer tech giants, vary in radicalness, and at times conflict with each other
From the Wall Street Journal: — These bills are the ultimate outcome of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust's investigation …
Study of 58 Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban
“partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.c...
Facebook says it will resume its political ad ban in Georgia after the polls close in the Georgia runoff elections
Following the Georgia runoff elections, the Facebook ban that restricts ads on social issues, elections and politics nationwide will be reimplemented in the state, the company said...
Facebook says political content makes up about 6% of what is seen on its platform and says CrowdTangle measures engagement but doesn't predict reach
Facebook Tuesday said that political content makes up only about 6% of what users actually see on its platform.
Facebook says it has helped register 4.4M voters for the 2020 election so far, topping its previous efforts
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How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5
Labor activists are targeted in a social media campaign as gig economy companies spend millions to prevent workers from becoming employees. Tweets: @darakerr , @aaschapiro , @deane...
Facebook and YouTube removed a video where Trump claims kids are “virtually immune” to COVID-19; Twitter banned @teamtrump's account until it removed the video
Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. blocked a video shared by accounts linked to U.S. President Donald Trump for violating …
Apple's Identifier for Advertisers, critical to tracking mobile ad spend, will become opt-in with iOS 14, a privacy boon for users and a big loss for marketers
zero attribution for users who do not *opt in*. Prices are going to go way up for bad traffic. It risks killing the app install/UA market as it exists today in terms of scale and e...