A look at YouTube's hidden world: most of the videos on the platform capture everyday life and have rarely been seen, with the median video having just 41 views
There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm - and it's nothing like what you know. Bluesky: @thomasgermain , @antisomniac , and @mausellmoli Mastodon: @ethanz@socia...
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users tune or even turn off their Feed
Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023
All — The — Way — Down — This one is sooo good. I recommend this to anyone playing with #AI to understand the biases and the complexities. Oh and the discussion of alt text is amazing. … Eri...
A study estimates that there are 13.3B+ videos on YouTube, of which 4B+ were posted to the platform in 2023, and the median YouTube video has 39 views
read 5 takeaways from @Antisomniac: https://journalqd.org/... Dirk Loss / @dloss : There are about 13 billion public YouTube videos, and the median video has 39 views. https://ethanzuckerman.com/... @...
The Supreme Court agrees to hear two cases concerning whether Florida and Texas can restrict social media companies from removing political posts or accounts
I have no guess how this will go. — Both states have had crushing backlash from their political scandals and freedom inhibiting legislation, so wanting to restrict criticism while spreading their ow...
Meta rolls out its Threads web app to all users, featuring an app bar at the top with the same five tabs as in the mobile app; tapping Home refreshes the Feed
here's how to install it as an app or in Edge's Sidebar Juli Clover / MacRumors : Threads Social Network Expands to the Web Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Threads takes next step, expands to t...
As US landlords increasingly turn to AI tools to screen tenants, housing and privacy advocates warn that opaque algorithms heighten errors and discrimination
Rebecca Burns / The Lever : Bluesky: @ethanz.bsky.social . Twitter: @acrecampaigns Bluesky: Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz.bsky.social : The imagined risk of AI killing off humanity gets way more attentio...
Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, the politics of attention, the power of federation, and more
Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, its politics of attention, power of federated networks, more
We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square and what other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon might offer. Tweets: @ethanz , @glichfield , and ...
Source: in February, Meta started an official internal process to shut down CrowdTangle, but paused the plan as the EU's Digital Services Act gained traction
and fund it for a year or two — to ensure that this vital tool is here for the next series of elections. https://twitter.com/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : NEW from me: CrowdTangle has been in limbo fo...