Meta launches a Gen Z-focused redesign of Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full-screen video player in the Video tab
get ready for more content from strangers Paul Hill / Neowin : Meta rolls out new Facebook features including Local and Explore tabs Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Facebook Introduces Local T...
Google says there are no plans to remove the News tab on search results pages, after testing temporarily removing the filter for “a small subset of users”
but the deck is often stacked against them. Threads: Sheila Dang / @sheiladangit : I don't understand how removing the News tab is helpful to anyone https://www.niemanlab.org/... Kali Hays / @kalihays...
Twitter VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin says she has resigned from the company; Irwin joined in June 2022 and took over as head of T&S when Yoel Roth resigned
maybe the Matt Walsh movie? — but she oversaw some egregious violations of trust and safety. John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton.bsky.social : Ella Irwin stayed around at Twitter. — She consolidated pow...
Source: Microsoft is demoing Bing chatbot to ad agencies, saying it plans paid links within the chatbox responses and industry-specific ads
Kevin Roose at the New York Times had a long chat … Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : The ChatGPT-fueled battle for search is bigger than Microsoft or Google Mastodon: Jesse Baer / @misc@m...
Twitter's VP of trust and safety Ella Irwin says it is focusing on automation to moderate content, favoring curbs on distribution rather than outright removals
can you explain why “egregious spam” is a sacrosanct category? Please tell the truth, that it's much easier to automate than moderation requiring a brain. Can you stop lying about who and how many peo...
Sources: AWS plans to hire content moderators to look for emerging extremist groups and remove content that violates its cloud service policies
you are at risk of being removed from the internet. Until you move, your internet belongs to them. https://www.reuters.com/... Mike Daodas / @mdudas : the open internet was cool while it lasted look, ...