Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures
even after Ron DeSantis' glitchy campaign kick off Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Twitter's Flaws Snag Elon Musk's Media Ambitions Steve Peoples / Associated Press : DeSantis set to make m...
Spotify says it will launch a subscription later this year called HiFi that will offer “CD-quality, lossless audio”; Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps audio
Microsoft aids Europe's media, Apple tops smartphone sales, Spotify HiFi Simon Cohen / Digital Trends : Spotify will add a lossless hi-fi option later this year Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today ...
Unilever says it will halt US advertising on Facebook and Twitter for at least the remainder of 2020, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms
to the point where it has de-indexed entire countries rather than do so — but that dam broke this week. Why? https://www.cjr.org/... Alexia Bonatsos / @alexia : Facebook on the other side of “platform...
Unilever says it will halt US advertising on Facebook and Twitter for at least the remainder of 2020, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms
like @NAACP — and Internet activists, namely @slpng_giants, who have figured out how to leverage social media to trigger corporate action. That's new. https://twitter.com/... Tyler McCall / @eiffeltyl...
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo says it will no longer allow anti-vaccine fundraisers or any projects making health claims that do not have a scientific backing
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @buzzfeednews and @passantino Tweets: @buzzfeednews : Anti-vaccine fundraisers will be banned on Indiegogo. The move comes after the crowdfunding site was us...
Facebook will curb vaccine misinformation by reducing the ranking of anti-vaccine Pages and groups, halting recommendations for those pages, rejecting ads, more
and dumber—Facebook announces crackdown Louise Matsakis / Wired : Facebook Will Crack Down on Anti-Vaccine Content Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : Facebook decides to quarantine anti vaxxers Napier Lo...
Investigation finds that YouTube is promoting anti-vaccine misinformation in search results and recommendations
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @passantino , @mat , @ceodonovan , and @ceodonovan See also Mediagazer Tweets: Jon Passantino / @passantino : A search of YouTube for “should i vaccinate my kids” and “are vac...
Throttling iPhones with older batteries was the right decision, but Apple's lack of transparency undermines customers and fuels conspiracy theories
but says it's for your own good Gordon Kelly / Forbes : Why Every iPhone Contains A Nasty Surprise Marius Nestor / Softpedia News : Apple Is Now Being Sued for Slowing Down Older iPhones Tyler Lee / U...
Snap's hands-off approach to high profile Snapchat users has alienated some of them, increasing the appeal of Instagram and YouTube
which is exactly what happened to Vine before its demise. http://www.buzzfeed.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Snapchat influencers are feeling the cold shoulder, so they're bringing their audi...