Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook's News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy
to pay Rupert's and the Germans' blackmail, actually—without paying for links. Danny Denhard / @dannydenhard : Most people forget Facebook is ahead of the curve when it comes to wh...
The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures”
Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …
Twitter says it is testing edge-to-edge pictures and videos in tweets on iOS to better support visual and text-based conversations
An Instagram-like focus on visuals — Twitter has announced that it's testing edge-to-edge media in tweets on iOS, creating a more full-screen …
Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content
Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6
Manage your Stratechery subscription. Scroll Blog : Scroll is joining Twitter! Casey Newton / Platformer : Twitter subscribes to Scroll Dave Winer / Scripting News : Having written...
Q&A with Instagram head Adam Mosseri on keeping users safe at scale, content moderation, Facebook's actions against Trump, future regulation, Reels, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
Facebook updates Pages with a cleaner design, tools for hosting text-based Q&As, a dedicated News Feed, removes the total amount of “likes”, and more
The social network will also remove the total amount of “likes” a Page receives.
A pessimistic look at Facebook and its enormous, uncontrollable impact on the US and world, giving Zuckerberg incredible power with little oversight
a world-historic weapon that lives not underground, but in a Disneyland-inspired campus in Menlo Park, California.” Sen. Marsha Blackburn / @marshablackburn : Sweet Baby Ray's? You...
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best on why it is not a media company, content moderation, making a reader app for users to easily read their newsletters, and more
On today's episode of Decoder, I'm talking to Chris Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that's taken …
Sources: WaPo is nearing 3M digital subscribers, up 50% YoY; NYT has tripled digital-only subscribers since 2016 to 6.1M
Twitter rolls out Fleets, its ephemeral Stories feature, globally, and says it plans to test an audio-based social networking feature similar to Clubhouse
Twitter this morning is launching its own version of Stories — aka “Fleets” — to its global user base.
Large rival companies say Amazon restricts how competing products, like smart speakers and video doorbells, can be advertised, giving Amazon's devices an edge
Large rival companies say Amazon restricts how competing products, like smart speakers and video doorbells, can be advertised, giving Amazon's devices an edge
Jack Dorsey says Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including through a subscription model
Brian Fung / CNN :
Twitter says hackers accessed the DM inbox for up to 36 of the 130 high profile accounts targeted in last week's attack
Last week's hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted today …
Profile of Adam Mosseri, who sees Project Daisy, which will eliminate public display of Instagram Likes later this year, as a way to “depressurize the app”
or a team—whose job was to care for users, like an ombudsman/chaplain hybrid, focused less on users' technological experience than on the emotional + psychological. https://www.nyt...
Facebook to hire a small team of journalists to curate a Top News section in its upcoming news tab, which it plans to release as a test before the year-end
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has long relied on algorithms to select news stories for its users to see.