Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media
Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”
The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.
Twitter suspends ~30 accounts sharing private jets' locations via public data, including @ElonJet, which Elon Musk had said he wouldn't ban for tracking his jet
Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …
Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter's workforce in the coming days, focusing on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety
The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce — SAN FRANCISCO …
Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid
Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known. Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @green_f...
Following Oversight Board feedback, Meta is building a customer service division to help users of its apps who have had posts or accounts removed unexpectedly
Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year”
ad market is shit —reels monetizes less than other ads on instagram and they are ramping up reels so they need to figure out how to make more money from reels eventually — apple st...
Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook …
Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year”
ad market is shit —reels monetizes less than other ads on instagram and they are ramping up reels so they need to figure out how to make more money from reels eventually — apple st...
Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook …
Elon Musk says the Twitter deal “cannot move forward” until Twitter proves bots are <5% of users, claiming his offer is based on “SEC filings being accurate”
Elon Musk said he'll proceed with his $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. only if the social media giant … Source: @elonmusk .
Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion
Loading... At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.
Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion
Loading... At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.
Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion
Loading... At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.
Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion
Loading... At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.
Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion
Loading... At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.
Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison
Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …
Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch remains a small pilot project 13 months after launch, with only 359 contributors flagging tweets in 2022
With the Ukraine war unfolding on social media, parsing fact from fiction has never been trickier — or, for those involved, more urgent. Tweets: @willoremus , @kcoleman , @shannonp...
Meta beats with Q4 revenue of $33.67B vs. $33.4B est., up 20% YoY, 2.91B MAUs, up 4% YoY, but misses with EPS of $3.67 vs. $3.84 est.; stock down 20%+
- Facebook earnings came in below expectations for the fourth quarter, and the company said numerous challenges are ahead in the first quarter.
Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after he gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines