Meta adds new Threads features for podcasters, as it tries to make the social network the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators
and hear about it! We're testing podcast previews to make it easy for fans of your threads to find your show 🎧 Connor Hayes / @conno_r : Threads 🤝Podcasts — To drive even more conversations on Thre...
Community Notes, on X and rolling out on Meta's services, falls short of stopping misinformation; eliminating rewards for posting misinformation would help more
Musk's own posts have been successfully noted 167 times — but only 88 are currently still visible. — Almost a third of notes submitted in February were related to crypto scams or other ToS violations...
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Potentially firing thousands of people based on AI's analysis of a single brief email is reckless and cruel. — www.nbcnews.com/p...
Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”
www.wired.com/story/metas-... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservatives. And also, becaus...
Threads is testing collections of profiles to follow, curated by a “handful of Threads community leaders”, built around topics like fashion, food, and books
It's unclear if one day, Threads will allow any account to create starter packs — 1/2 — www.threads.net/@mosseri/pos... … Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : Hahahahahaha wait, you can't even make your ow...
Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post; users won't see fediverse posts in feeds, but will on account profiles
However, I believe that interoperability is necessary for survival of all of these platforms. … Eugen Rochko / @Gargron@mastodon.social : @mosseri just announced that #Threads users can finally follow...
Elon Musk's Donald Trump interview on X Spaces was derailed by technical glitches at the scheduled start time on August 12; Musk blamed “a massive DDoS attack”
but Elon Musk Desperately Needs Him Back Simon Sharwood / The Register : Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS Emily Dreibelbis / PCMag : Musk Blames DDoS Attack For 40-Minute De...
A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users
Threads is a place for everyone. No following required. Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : The lack of “content creators” and “influencers” on Threads is probably one of its biggest selling points...
A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users
Threads is a place for everyone. No following required. Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : The lack of “content creators” and “influencers” on Threads is probably one of its biggest selling points...