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Studies Keep Finding That Social Media Algorithms Don't Increase Polarization. Why Is the Press So Skeptical?

New research on Facebook before the 2020 election finds scant evidence to suggest algorithms are shifting our political views.

Reason

Election disinformation campaigns targeted voters of color in 2020. Experts expect 2024 to be worse

Community organizations are gearing up for what they expect will be a worsening onslaught of disinformation targeting voters of color as the 2024 election approaches

The Independent UK

Bay Area man fatally stabbed woman and posted video of it on Facebook, police say

Authorities say a man allegedly stabbed a woman to death in the San Francisco Bay Area and then posted a video of the slaying to Facebook

The Independent UK

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Man arrested after posting video of fatal stabbing on Facebook

Someone who viewed the video reported it to the police, leading them to the victim

The Independent UK

Difference In Social Media Algorithms Does Not Reduce Political Polarisation, Study Finds

97% of political news sources on Facebook identified as having spread misinformation more popular with conservatives

Zenger

Biden White House Pressured Facebook To Censor Lab Leak Posts

"Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing—rather than demoting/labeling—claims that Covid is man made," asked Meta's president for global affairs.

Reason

Creative Flow+ review

Shutterstock is more than an online media library: they also offer browser-based tools to help you organize, schedule and design artwork for social media and print. If you already have a subscription to its library, you already have access to it, but you can also get it on its own.…

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For FuturLabs, PowerWash Simulator's success is just the "start of the journey"

FuturLab’s James Marsden shares PowerWash Simulator’s success and what that means for the title's future

TechRadar

Why Dunkin' and Lego rebrands succeeded – but X missed the mark

Twitter has swapped the fluffy bird that used to symbolize the social media platform for a spindly black X. Ditching the company’s well-known logo and changing its name to a letter often associated with danger, death and the unknown is only the latest user-aggravating step CEO Elon Musk has taken…

The Conversation

Threads can become the 'purest form' of social media as long as Meta and Mark Zuckerberg agree to one thing, says tech exec

The president of a once-trendy social app believes Meta should operate Threads as a loss leader to help it reclaim the goodwill it lost over the past few years.

Fortune

Changing Meta’s algorithms did not help US political polarization, study finds

Study of Facebook and Instagram data from 2020 election shows chronological lists had no measurable impact on polarization

The Guardian - US

Stock Market Today: Stocks Drop Despite Solid Meta Earnings

The major benchmarks couldn't hold on for a win Thursday, though Meta stock popped on impressive Q2 results.

Kiplinger

New study shows just how Facebook's algorithm shapes conservative and liberal bubbles

Research conducted at the height of the 2020 election reveals new details about how Facebook's algorithms handle political content. But it suggests there are no easy fixes to political polarization.

WEKU

Deep dive into Meta's algorithms shows that America's political polarization has no easy fix

A team of some of the world's leading social media researchers has published four studies looking at the relationship between the algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram and America's widening political divide

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Republican-led committee calls off vote to hold Meta's Mark Zuckerberg in contempt

A House committee has called off a vote on a recommendation that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg be held in contempt of Congress for failing to fully supply documents related to an investigation into supposed censorship of conservatives by tech companies

Roll Call

House panel backs away from Zuckerberg contempt vote - Roll Call

A House committee scrapped a Thursday meeting to vote on whether to hold social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg in criminal contempt of Congress.

TechRadar

Facebook is being flooded with fake ads that are actually malware

ChatGPT and Bard users are being targeted by fake Facebook ads that look to steal your information.

WEKU

Meta's Threads needs a policy for election disinformation, voting groups say

Twelve voting rights organizations tell Meta its new social media site Threads needs a robust plan to ensure election disinformation doesn't go viral during the 2024 elections.

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Zenger

Meta Platforms Beats Expectations With $32 Billion Q2 Revenue, User Base Continues To Grow

Group's revenue up 11% YoY, ahead of $31.12 billion prediction by analysts; 3.07 billion family daily active people, up 7% YoY.‌

Android Central

Meta's pivot to AI and Threads is paying off, but Quest 2 profits are sagging

Until the Meta Quest 3 arrives, Reality Labs is only going to continue to hemmorage money. But the company's ad revenue is growing so strongly that it may not matter.

The Independent UK

Are you a Facebook user? You have one month left to apply for a share of this $725M settlement

U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year

The Independent UK

Sinead O’Connor, the chart-topping singer who courted controversy

The star is best known for her 1990 smash hit, Nothing Compares 2 U.

iMore

How to get started with Threads — Instagram's Twitter killer

How to get started with Threads. Instagram's answer to Twitter's mess.

Evening Standard

Meta fined £10.5M in Australia for “deceptively” collecting VPN data

The company’s Onavo security software was previously banned by Apple for violating data-collection policies

The Hindu

Meet India’s artisanal fountain pen makers whose writing instruments are in demand across the world

ASA Pens, Ranga Pens, Fosfor Pens, and Lotus Pens are four Indian artisanal fountain pen makers who are crafting unique designs with traditional lathe set-ups, hand-polishing, and hand-cutting threads. These artists offer custom orders and have clients across 90 countries.

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