New releases by three pop icons reveal their extreme attempts to protect themselves from the damage caused by fame. Pop stardom has never seemed less aspirationalThe mechanisms of pop stardom have never been subject to as much scrutiny as they are now….
A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation)
Disinformation, misinformation, infotainment, algowars — if the debates over the future of media the past few decades have meant anything, they’ve at least left a pungent imprint on the English language. There’s been a lot of invective and fear over what social media is doing to us, from our individual psychologies and neurologies to wider […]
SNSで活発化する“中国発”の投稿が、BBCの報道の信頼性を損なうべく暗躍している
中国発のSNSへの投稿やフェイクニュースが、英国の公共放送であるBBCを攻撃し、その信頼性を低下させようとしている──。そんな動きがサイバーセキュリティ企業の研究によって明らかにされた。新疆ウイグル自治区での人権侵害に関する報道などに対抗した措置とみられ、一連の活動を中国政府が支援している可能性も指摘されている。
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Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly
To the average person, Facebook’s monopoly seems obvious. But obviousness is not an antitrust standard. Monopoly has a clear legal meaning, and thus far Lina Khan’s FTC has failed to meet it.
US renews fight with Facebook arguing company holds monopoly
The agency also dismissed a request by the tech giant that chair Lina Khan recuse herself from the caseThe Federal Trade Commission on Thursday refiled its antitrust case against Facebook, arguing the company holds monopoly power in social networking a…
FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition
FTC chair Lina Khan cast deciding vote in decision to refile.
In growing battle with TikTok, Facebook to test ‘Facebook Reels’ in the U.S.
Reels are coming to Facebook in the U.S. The company this morning announced it will begin testing a new feature, Facebook Reels, which will give Facebook users the ability to create and share short-form video content directly within the News Feed or within Facebook Groups. The addition is an expansion of tests launched earlier this […]
Facebook releases a glimpse of its most popular posts, but we don’t learn much
Facebook is out with a new report collecting the most popular posts on the platform, responding to critics who believe the company is deliberately opaque about its top-performing content. Facebook’s new “widely viewed content reports” will come out quarterly, reflecting most viewed top News Feed posts in the U.S. every three months — not exactly […]
Facebook reveals top posts but still won’t share key data about disinformation
Report does little to shed light on hyperpartisan content or disinformation.
Twitter asks users to flag COVID-19 and election misinformation
Twitter introduced a new test feature Tuesday that allows users to report misinformation they run into on the platform, flagging it to the company as “misleading.” The test will roll out starting today to most users in the U.S., Australia and South Korea. In the new test, Twitter users will be able to expand the […]