The New Yorker
How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
6 min read · Jun 4th · Two new books examine how social media traps users in a brutal race to the bottom.
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Platformer
Facebook admits its mistakes
7 min read · May 18th · What the company's latest enforcement report tells us about the free-speech debate
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Marie-Christine Schindler
Digital 2022 Report zur Entwicklung der globalen Nutzung von Internet, Social Media und Mobile
9 min read · Feb 15th · Der Global Overview Report Digital 2022 bingt zum 10. Mal Daten zur weltweiten Nutzung von Internet, Social Media und Mobile.
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Axios
The TikTok war
2 min read · Feb 15th · Social media has changed the flow of information in these tense situations.
Reader View · Shared by 117, including Thomas Knuewer, Katja Evertz, Brian Stelter, Matt Navarra, Clemens M. Schusterwwaq
Content Marketing Institute
10 Tips To Write Engaging Content Previews for Social Media
5 min read · Jan 24th · Get social media scrollers to stop, read your preview text, and click to consume the full-length content with these tips. – Content Marketing Institute
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Social Media Today
Which Social Media Apps Have the Biggest Impact on Sleep Patterns? [Infographic]
1 min read · Jan 12th · Using your phone late at night can impact your sleep - but which social media apps worsen that impact?
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TechCrunch
TikTok to rank as the third largest social network, 2022 forecast notes
2 min read · 2021-12-20 · A new forecast has dubbed TikTok as the world’s third-largest social network, just behind Facebook and Instagram. In its inaugural forecast on TikTok’s global install base, Insider Intelligence — the…
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Visual Capitalist
Ranked: The World’s Most Popular Social Networks, and Who Owns Them
~11 min read · 2021-12-06 · Currently, there are over 4.5 billion people around the world who use some form of social media—about 57% of the global population. Yet, while social media&
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Axios
Exclusive: New bipartisan bill takes aim at algorithms
2 min read · 2021-11-09 · The bill requires tech platforms to offer users an option to view content unsorted by algorithms.
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The New York Times
Opinion | Does Instagram Harm Girls? No One Actually Knows.
4 min read · 2021-10-10 · The findings of psychological research are inconclusive.
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Fabio Chiusi, Steven Pinker, Jeff Jarvis, Brendan Nyhan, Carrie Brown, Nir Eyal, Katja Evertz, Mathew Ingram, Scott McLeod, Kevin Kelly
Vox
How mental health became a social media minefield
~12 min read · 2021-09-30 · How many mental illnesses does the internet think you have?
Reader View · Shared by 345, including Marsha Collier, Stephanie A Kowalski, Lee Keyes, Digg, Dr. Alec Couros, Christina Farr, Dietrich Inocencio, p.e. moskowitz, Bethany Brookshire, PhilanTopic, Vaughan Bell, Katja Evertz
BBC Future
Would Plato tweet? The Ancient Greek guide to social media
10 min read · 2021-09-23 · Socrates or Plato may not have used Twitter or TikTok, but as Nathan Dufour writes, they would have had things to say about how to navigate social media more wisely.
Reader View · Shared by 317, including Nir Eyal, Marsha Collier, Daniel Pink, Esther Schindler, Katja Evertz
Fast Company
It’s not just bad behavior. Social media was designed to infuriate people
4 min read · 2021-07-09 · We studied how online disagreements unfold on YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp—and found design flaws in each platform.
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The Verge
The next big social network trend? Shortform audio
5 min read · 2021-07-16 · Voice notes with viral dreams
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The Wall Street Journal
Investigation: How TikTok's Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires
2021-07-21 · A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger o
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The New York Times
Inside Facebook’s Data Wars
~11 min read · 2021-07-14 · Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users’ high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.
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