A revealing cluster of emails leaked to Business Insider offers a glimpse at how Facebook decides what content is objectionable in high profile cases. In this instance, a group of executives at Facebook went hands on in determining if an Alex Jones Instagram post violated the platform’s terms of service or not. As Business Insider […]
View More Facebook’s handling of Alex Jones is a microcosm of its content policy problemCategory: Social
Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
Now you can search Facebook for how much Trump has spent on ads in the past year, which Pages’ ads reference immigration, or what a Page’s previous names were. It’s all part of Facebook’s new Ad Library launching today that makes good on its promise to increase transparency after the social network’s ads were used […]
View More Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active adsTwitter’s introduces a battery-saving ‘Lights Out’ dark mode option
As promised back in January by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the company today is rolling out an even darker version of the app’s existing dark mode. Before, Twitter’s dark theme was more of a blue-ish shade instead of a true black, which not everyone seemed to like. Now, there’s an optional setting that makes the […]
View More Twitter’s introduces a battery-saving ‘Lights Out’ dark mode optionHUD hits Facebook with housing discrimination charges over ad targeting
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this morning hit Facebook with charges of housing discrimination. The filing states that the the online giant has violated the Fair Housing Act through its ad targeting tools, which allow sellers to limit listings based on categories like race, sex and nation of origin. The charges are […]
View More HUD hits Facebook with housing discrimination charges over ad targetingFacebook is finally banning white supremacy that goes by other names
Facebook is abandoning a longstanding policy of allowing white supremacy to flourish on its platform under the guise of terms like white nationalism and white separatism. Motherboard first reported that the decision came out of a conversation on platform moderation out of Facebook’s Content Standards Forum yesterday and will go into effect next week. Under […]
View More Facebook is finally banning white supremacy that goes by other namesFacebook is finally banning white supremacy that goes by other names
Facebook is abandoning a longstanding policy of allowing white supremacy to flourish on its platform under the guise of terms like white nationalism and white separatism. Motherboard first reported that the decision came out of a conversation on platform moderation out of Facebook’s Content Standards Forum yesterday and will go into effect next week. Under […]
View More Facebook is finally banning white supremacy that goes by other namesTwitter took over a user’s account and joked about reading their DMs
At a time when tech giants have come under fire for failing to protect the private data of their users, Twitter took over one of its user’s accounts for fun and then tweeted jokes about reading the account’s private messages. The account, to be clear, was willingly volunteered for this prank by social media consultant […]
View More Twitter took over a user’s account and joked about reading their DMsReport: Grindr’s Chinese owner Kunlun is selling the dating app after CFIUS raised personal data concerns
Grindr, the popular dating app for gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, looks like it might be changing hands again, a year after it was acquired at a valuation of $245 million. According to a report in Reuters, Grindr’s owner Kunlun is looking for a buyer of the company after the Committee on Foreign Investment […]
View More Report: Grindr’s Chinese owner Kunlun is selling the dating app after CFIUS raised personal data concernsEuropean parliament votes for controversial copyright reform (yes, again)
The European Parliament has voted to pass a controversial reform of online copyright rules that critics contend will result in big tech platforms pre-filtering user generated content uploads. The results of the final vote in the EU parliament were 348 in favor vs 274 against. An amendment that would have thrown out the most controversial […]
View More European parliament votes for controversial copyright reform (yes, again)Apple TV+ makes Facebook Watch look like a joke
Apple flexed its wallet today in a way Facebook has scared to do. Tech giants make money by the billions, not the millions, which should give them an easy way to break into premium video distribution: buy some must-see content. That’s the strategy I’ve been advocating for Facebook but that Apple actually took to heart. […]
View More Apple TV+ makes Facebook Watch look like a jokeTikTok quietly picked up the assets of GeoGif, which created animated, location-specific overlays for video
Video sharing app TikTok passed 1 billion downloads last month, and its parent company ByteDance is ramping up its efforts to monetize those users with ads, while also continuing to add more features to the app to keep people engaged. In a move that could help both of those efforts, ByteDance has made a small […]
View More TikTok quietly picked up the assets of GeoGif, which created animated, location-specific overlays for videoTelegram adds ‘delete everywhere’ nuclear option — killing chat history
Telegram has added a feature that lets a user delete messages in one-to-one and/or group private chats, after the fact, and not only from their own inbox. The new ‘nuclear option’ delete feature allows a user to selectively delete their own messages and/or messages sent by any/all others in the chat. They don’t even have […]
View More Telegram adds ‘delete everywhere’ nuclear option — killing chat history