Snap is under NDA with the UK’s Home Office as part of a working group tasked with coming up with more robust age verification technology that’s able to robustly identify children online. The detail emerged during a parliamentary committee hearing as MPs in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) questioned Stephen Collins, […]
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Instagram launches shopping checkout, charging sellers a fee
Instagram is opening a whole new revenue stream. Now the 130 million people who tap Instagram’s product tags on shopping posts will be able to buy those items without leaving the app thanks to stored payment info. “Checkout with Instagram” launches today in the US with more than 20 top brands including Adidas, Kylie Cosmetics, […]
View More Instagram launches shopping checkout, charging sellers a feeFacebook says the original New Zealand shooter video was viewed about 4,000 times before removal
Facebook released new figures about its attempts to stop the spread of videos after a shooter livestreamed his attacks on two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques last Friday, killing 50 people. In a blog post, Facebook vice president and deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby said that the video was viewed less than 200 times during the […]
View More Facebook says the original New Zealand shooter video was viewed about 4,000 times before removalFacebook reveals more details about how Christchurch terror attack video spread
Facebook has revealed more details about the spread of the Christchurch terror attack video, and its seemingly relentless attempts to stop it.
The social media giant said in a post the video was watched fewer than 200 times during the live broadcast,…
Facebook fights local ‘news deserts’ it helped create
Facebook is once again touting its attempt to solve a problem it helped create.
The company announced Monday that it would provide select researchers access to information about news deserts, which are places with little to no local news covera…
EU gov’t and public health sites lousy with adtech, study finds
A study of tracking cookies running on government and public sector health websites in the European Union has found commercial adtech to be operating pervasively even in what should be core not-for-profit corners of the Internet. The researchers used searches including queries related to HIV, mental health, pregnancy, alcoholism and cancer to examine how frequently […]
View More EU gov’t and public health sites lousy with adtech, study findsTwo key executives quit Facebook
Chief Product Officer Chris Cox who has been with the company since 2005 and is a top aide to CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his departure from Facebook. Recently, Cox was in charge of managing services like Instagram and Messenger. The other executiv…
View More Two key executives quit FacebookFacebook has removed 1.5 million videos of the New Zealand shooting, but questions remain
We already knew that Facebook moved quickly on Thursday to stop videos of the New Zealand mass shooting from spreading, but now we have some actual numbers.
In a public statement and identical series of tweets dispensed by Facebook Newsroom, the company confirms that 1.5 million videos were removed in the first 24 hours following the terror attack on two New Zealand mosques that left 50 dead and 50 injured as of Sunday. Of those, 1.2 million were stopped before they were even uploaded.
The news and accompanying statement comes from Facebook exec Mia Garlick:
In the first 24 hours we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack globally, of which over 1.2 million were blocked at upload…
— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) March 17, 2019 Read more…
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View More Facebook has removed 1.5 million videos of the New Zealand shooting, but questions remainThis YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobs
In recent years, data analysts have gone from optional to a career that holds great promise, but demand for quantitative skills applied in business decisions has raced ahead of supply as college curriculum often lags behind the fast-changing workplace. CareerTu, a New York-based startup launched by a former marketing manager at Amazon, aims to close […]
View More This YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobsFacebook’s News Feed changes were supposed to make us feel good. It’s not working.
More than a year after Facebook changed its News Feed algorithm to make us feel better, new data suggests we’re still sharing the same old garbage as before.
NewsWhip, an analytics company that tracks how content spreads across Facebook, put out a new report looking at how last year’s News Feed changes have affected what’s being shared on Facebook. Unsurprisingly, its findings aren’t very encouraging.
For context: Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to News Feed last January, promising that “we feel a responsibility to make sure our services aren’t just fun to use, but also good for people’s well-being.” As a result, he said, the company would be making adjustments to News Feed in order to optimize for “helping you have more meaningful social interactions,” rather than pure engagement. Read more…
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View More Facebook’s News Feed changes were supposed to make us feel good. It’s not working.Delete Facebook says WhatsApp co-founder
In 2014, Facebook acquired the messenger from Brian Acton for $19 billion. He left in 2017 over disagreements concerning the platform’s running of promotional ads. Since departing, Acton has not shied away from his disdain for Mark Zuckerberg’s compa…
View More Delete Facebook says WhatsApp co-founderDaily Crunch: Social media struggles with shooting tragedy
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Videos of shooting tragedy in New Zealand continue resurfacing on social media Earlier today there was a horrendous mass mosque shooting […]
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