From imbalanced creator economics and poor security, to centralized control and disgruntled communities, Web 2.0’s flaws have been on full display these past few months.
Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later
Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS and Android apps that will let creators record an audio room so that anyone who misses the action live can check it out later. The company first announced that the […]
Facebook on the spot in Kenya as exploitation of minors rife on its platform
Internet-based sexual exploitation of minors in Kenya was found to be more rampant on Facebook than on any other site, according to the newly released Disrupting Harm report — making the tech giant’s platform exceedingly unsafe for children. The report by Interpol, UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti and End Violence against Children, found that Facebook accounted […]
Missing 16-Year-Old Rescued After Driver Recognizes Her Viral ‘Distress’ Hand Gesture From TikTok
“Authorities were able to find a missing 16-year-old girl after she caught the attention of a driver by using hand gestures popularized on the social media platform TikTok,” reports NBC News:
According to the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office in Kentucky…
New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition
A former upstart Instagram rival is suing Meta, formerly known as Facebook, over allegations that the company violated antitrust laws by cloning a competing product and ultimately killing its business. The app, Phhhoto, launched in 2014, inviting users to create and share short GIF-like videos. If that sounds familiar, that’s because the same functionality was […]
Twitter is rolling out a feature to make it easier to search a user’s tweets
Some Twitter users on iOS are starting to get access to a feature that makes it easy to search an individual user’s tweets. For those with access, when you navigate to a user’s profile, you’ll see a search icon in the top right corner of the screen on the user’s profile banner, next to the […]
ピンタレスト が「アルゴリズム+エディトリアル」モデルによるインフルエンサー新機能を発表
インフルエンサーコンテンツの開発に向けてさまざまな新機能を10月20日にローンチしたピンタレスト(Pinterest)は、ますますインスタグラムやTikTokのようになってきている。しかしピンタレストでは、人々が見るものをアルゴリズムのみに頼って判断するのではなく、エディトリアル的なアプローチを採用している。
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Online platforms have a responsibility to protect children from harm
We must arm children and teens with tools and technology to understand whether someone they meet online has a record of bad behavior.
Mastodon issues 30-day ultimatum to Trump’s social network over misuse of its code
Former President Trump’s new social network might be in hot water before it even launches. Mastodon, a free social media framework, alleges that Truth Social is passing open source software off as its own, and has given them 30 days to fix this. If it doesn’t fix things by the end of next month, things […]
Why Facebook’s angry emoji should interest the US SEC
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must thoroughly investigate Facebook and enforce our laws.