Internal documents show Instagram's aggressive campaign to win back teens, including by boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more
The company pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back even after critics said it wasn't safe, records show. X: @robtornoe . Bluesky: @justinhendrix and @raaleh . Mastodon: @cbarbermd@med-mastodon...
A look at the costs of a smartphone-based childhood, as Gen Z struggles with poor mental health and lags behind previous generations on many important metrics
particularly onto social-media platforms designed for virality & addiction.” 👇 https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Jack Badelaire / @jbadelaire : I'm not a parent, but many of my friends are, and I've wo...
New York City issues a public health advisory officially designating social media as an “environmental toxin”, blaming it for a youth mental health crisis
but NYC needs to go even further X: Mayor Eric Adams / @nycmayor : Social media companies are fueling a mental health crisis, especially for our young people. But we won't let Big Tech endanger our ki...
Meta sues the FTC, claiming its in-house trials violate the Constitution, and asks a court to halt the agency's bid to change a $5B privacy settlement in 2020
aka rebranded Facebook — is making Federal Society inspired attacks on settled constitutional law that enables the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to protect consumers. Let's ostracize the Democrats wh...
Match Group reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $882M, vs. $880.6M est., paying users down 5% YoY to 15.7M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; MTCH drops 15%+
Total Revenue grew 9% over the prior year quarter to $882 million. X: Brett / @ccm_brett : - Tinder hits 10% rev growth - Hinge growing 44% - Margins expanding - Shrinking share count - Trading at tob...
Twitter is now “X” in the App Store, seemingly via an exception to Apple's rule that requires app names to have two or more characters
Twitter's “X” becomes first one-letter iPhone app Wes Davis / The Verge : Twitter gets special permission to be ‘X’ in the iOS App Store Roshan Abraham / VICE : ‘Blaze Your Glory!’: Twitter Has a Biza...
How Facebook became indispensable in Africa with its ease of access, importance to small businesses, its facilitating of community organizing, and more
Nesrine Malik / The Guardian : Tweets: @nwstein , @protagorasto , @skepticafro , @nesrinemalik , @wolfiechristl , @samhaselby , and @glynmoody Tweets: Nick Stein / @nwstein : After following @Google ...
Researchers describe Meta's roadblocks, including pre-publication review and restrictive contracts, to stifle research that might cast it in a negative light
Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access tool that allows academics to do research on Facebook. Tweets: @paultang , @emmalbrian...
Bipartisan House bill would force tech platforms to offer an “input-transparent algorithm” that doesn't require user data to generate recommendations
letting all kinds of awful content flow, and saying “the law won't let us hide hate anymore!” (You know they'd do this.) Anil Dash / @anildash : More broadly, this class of solutions to tech tend to i...
It took decades to bring meaningful government regulation for Big Tobacco and experts say it could take an equally long time to regulate Big Tech
when we—allow crime among elites and the powerful it doesn't just go away. It comes back, stronger and more abusive. Which is why we can't let Facebook, the Sacklers, or Trump, get away with saying th...