X's pivot to video mirrors past social media trends, but its reliance on user-generated videos from TikTok and other platforms may not ensure long-term success
X's New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : X Calls Itself ‘Indispensable’ With 8B Minutes And 1.7M New Users Every Day — But Users Question If It's Ma...
Google says there are no plans to remove the News tab on search results pages, after testing temporarily removing the filter for “a small subset of users”
but the deck is often stacked against them. Threads: Sheila Dang / @sheiladangit : I don't understand how removing the News tab is helpful to anyone https://www.niemanlab.org/... K...
Source: Parler has ~50,000 DAUs and its parent company Parlement had been trying to sell the social network for the past few weeks at a “wildly inflated” price
conservative opportunists have seen the partisan split emerging across Big Tech and decided they want a piece of the action. But instead of innovating — which is hard — they pump o...
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Va...
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack expresses heavy skepticism at pushing for avatar fidelity, focusing on the Quest Pro to drive VR adoption, and more
Instagram food photography is becoming more realistic, driven by generational changes, more diverse food creators, and a frustration with the curation culture
Discord rolls out Reddit-like Forum channels, designed for asynchronous chat about specific topics, after testing them with some communities since February 2022
Zuckerberg responds to the mockery of the Horizon Worlds selfie, saying it was taken quickly to celebrate a launch and promises major updates to avatar graphics
Earlier this week was supposed to be a celebratory time for the folks at Meta, as its reality-devouring project Horizon Worlds was now available in more countries.
Zuckerberg responds to the mockery of the Horizon Worlds selfie, saying it was taken quickly to celebrate a launch and promises major updates to avatar graphics
Earlier this week was supposed to be a celebratory time for the folks at Meta, as its reality-devouring project Horizon Worlds was now available in more countries.
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will roll back some recent changes after a week of mounting criticism, including temporarily reducing the number of recommendations
Say goodbye to the full-screen feed, and at least some of those recommendations — for now. Adam Mosseri explains why
Spotify's “white noise” podcasters are making thousands of dollars per month creating soothing sounds, a growing market that major networks have yet to explore
Influencers who focused on the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial made thousands of dollars through platform incentives, shaping public opinion in the process
Influencers discovered there's money and clout to be made in covering breaking news — When the verdict came …
An in-depth look at OnlyFans agencies, which manage hundreds of models' accounts and use teams of ghostwriters to chat with subscribers in private messages
Clever marketers have figured out how easy it is to simulate online intimacy at scale, ventriloquizing alluring models with cheap, offshore labor. Tweets: @justinhendrix , @liamsta...
Something Awful administrator says founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has died at 45; founded in 1999, SA's influence over the contemporary web has been huge
monumentally important. Photoshop Friday spawned a million memes https://twitter.com/... Josh von Milton Bradley / @jesawyer : not sure what to say about lowtax (according to frags...
Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6
Manage your Stratechery subscription. Scroll Blog : Scroll is joining Twitter! Casey Newton / Platformer : Twitter subscribes to Scroll Dave Winer / Scripting News : Having written...
Sources: while Trump was in office, the Trump Org negotiated a 40% stake in Parler in exchange for making it his main social network; the deal never finalized
Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered Trump 40% of the company if he posted exclusively to the platform.
At an end-of-year, company-wide meeting, Facebook said it is working on TLDR, an AI tool that would summarize longform articles in bullet points
Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best on why it is not a media company, content moderation, making a reader app for users to easily read their newsletters, and more
On today's episode of Decoder, I'm talking to Chris Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that's taken …
Twitter says it labeled 300K election-related tweets from Oct. 27 to Nov. 11 as disputed, accounting for 0.2% of all messages about the election
Twitter said on Thursday that it labeled as disputed 300,000 tweets related to the presidential election, or .2 percent of the total number …