Snap has launched Snapchat Plans, an invite-only tool for organising real-world gatherings of up to 200 people, built on the finding that a third of young American users already arrange meet-ups in chats. The European Commission has had formal proceedi…
An expert went from 300 Instagram followers to 130,000 in three and a half months. Here are the seven rules behind that growth, and how founders copy each one.
Adam Mosseri has warned that users who switch off Instagram’s recommendation system end up with a worse experience, telling an Australian press briefing that engagement can fall by as much as 50% and that satisfaction scores fall off a cliff. Mosseri s…
The broadcast deal for the Primetime Emmy Awards expires this year. The next deal is being negotiated in a world where social media impressions dwarf live viewership.
The Primetime Emmy Awards’ broadcast deal expires this year, and the next bidders will negotiate in a world where social media impressions dwarf live viewership.
Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into whether X’s age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July an…
The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation…
Emmanuel Macron has asked the European Commission to ban children under 15 from social media across the bloc, three weeks after France’s highest constitutional authority struck down his government’s attempt to do the same thing nationally. The request …
Australia has published draft legislation that would require social media platforms to show users recurring prompts offering to turn the algorithmic feed off. The exposure draft of the Digital Duty of Care bill went out this week, Reuters reported, and…
Two weeks after X Corp’s lawyers demanded it disappear, Nitter is coming back. The open-source project posted a two-line notice on Monday saying it will continue, following legal advice. It did not say what that advice was. The notice sits on nitter.ne…