Well, well, how could things have ever come to this? On May 22, a range of blue tick accounts on Twitter sparked confusion, and even a dip in the stock market, after sharing what appeared to be AI-generated images of an explosion outside the Pentagon building. As per Vice: “Accounts such as @WarMonitors, @BloombergFeed, and […]
Meta has managed to obtain another huge penal expense from regulators, with the European Data Protection Board (EDPU) slamming the company with a €1.2 billion fine ($1.3 billion) for transferring EU user data back to the US without explicit permission or adequate protections in place. This fine, which happens to be the largest of its […]
Is Twitter now planning to reinstate its recently-retired legacy verified accounts? How fickle of it if it were to do so, but even that wouldn’t be surprising, at least not at this point. While that might be a bit of a stretch, Twitter is experimenting with a new way to show an account’s verification history, […]
YouTube’s looking to capitalize on its rising usage on home TV sets, with the expansion of 30-second non-skippable ads to Connected TV campaigns. Regular YouTube ads, if you don’t have Premium, are already annoying, now imagine an unskippable 30-second version of them – on 50+ inch screens. Yikes. We’ve already foreshadowed that this might be […]
TikTok has announced a renewal of its partnership with the iconic Baseball team – the New York Yankees, which will see the Yankees’ creative team continue to produce exclusive content for the platform, helping solidify the platform’s connection and relatability with sports fans. Home Run The partnership, which TikTok first established back in 2020, has […]
TikTok is looking to strengthen its bond with top creators through the addition of a new Creator Effects Funding Program for top AR creators in the app. At the same time, TikTok’s also expanding its Creativity Program, which provides direct funding for top-performing clips. New TikTok Cash Course Right into the nitty gritty of things, […]
YouTube recently announced its latest round of tweaks and updates, including new insights into audience behavior, new tools for scanning through shorts clips, and more ways to recognize paying subscribers in-stream. Short-Stacked Analytics First off, YouTube’s rolling out yet another new analytics card in YouTube Studio which shows users the content formats their viewers are […]
Meta has recently published its latest Transparency and Community Standards Enforcement Reports, providing insight into all of the content removals and requests that have been submitted to the company in recent months. Meta’s Transparency Report covers the second half of 2022, while its Community Standards update for Q1 2022 supplies insight into all of the […]
Meta’s cost-cutting measures have had another impact, with its DM automation service, Kustomer, which it acquired back in 2020, being divested. Despite this ‘L’, Meta is set to remain as one of the platform’s minority stakeholders. For a little context, Kustomer specializes in AI detection of customer queries, then either responding automatically, based on the […]
After a streak of good news (and even a few good updates), the ghost of bans past haunts TikTok once again – the venerable state of Montana is the 1st US state to issue a full ban on the app. As Reuters reported: “Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed legislation to ban Chinese-owned TikTok […]
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