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The Verge
TikTok reportedly plans a ‘major push’ into gaming and games livestreamers could play with viewers
The Verge
2 min read · May 19th · One more reason to keep the TikTok app open
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TechCrunch
TikTok is gearing up for games, including interactive minigames for TikTok LIVE
TechCrunch
3 min read · May 19th · TikTok is already one of the world’s fastest-growing social media platforms, where it’s even overtaken YouTube on watch time in select markets and sports over 1 billion monthly active users. Now, the…
Reader View · Shared by 81, including Keith Keller, Matt Navarra, Stephan Woodtli, 🇺🇦 Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー｜#StandWithUkraine
NPR
These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media
NPR
6 min read · May 16th · A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."
The New York Times
Opinion | The Real Twitter Is Not for Sale
The New York Times
5 min read · May 3rd · The origins and meaning of Black Twitter.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 99, including anildash, Kim Scott 🇺🇦 #BLM, Stowe Boyd, Carrie Brown
The Washington Post
How Twitter lost the celebs
The Washington Post
May 12th · From Justin Bieber to Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed accounts have quieted over the years. Hollywood insiders say abuse and harassment are to blame — and Elon Musk probably won’t help.
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Poynter
In the age of social media blasts, what’s the point of letters to the editor?
Poynter
6 min read · May 18th · Publishing readers’ letters sends a message that they are equal participants and that reader criticism is a necessary part of how the news is made.
The Cut
The Anti-Instagram App Promising to Make Us Feel Good
The Cut
6 min read · May 20th · BeReal wants to capitalize off our desire for authenticity on social media.
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Twitter as a City-State
Every
5 min read · Apr 30th · The Argument for Democracy in Cyberspace
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 27, including Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID, Chris Messina, Nathan Baschez, Enrique Dans
Engadget
Here's what NFTs look like on Instagram
Engadget
2 min read · May 10th · Meta has shared more details of how NFTs will work on Instagram, with Facebook coming soon..
Reader View · Shared by 62, including Matt Navarra
eMarketer
TikTok to surpass YouTube in US
eMarketer
May 10th · US TikTok users will spend more time with the social media platform this year than YouTube users will spend on YouTube. This difference will be just about a fraction of a minute but will expand in…
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diemnewsletter.substack.com
Can we evolve online?
diemnewsletter.substack.com
4 min read · May 16th · Ironically, I'm a little nervous about this one.
Business Insider
The Philippines election may tell researchers how misinformation on TikTok could subvert democracies around the world
Business Insider
6 min read · May 9th · As Filipinos head to the polls, researchers worry TikTok disinformation may help elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of a brutal former dictator.
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The Atlantic
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
The Atlantic
20+ min read · Apr 11th · It’s not just a phase.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 841, including Jonathan Haidt, Niall Ferguson, Daniel Pink, Jeff Atwood, Marsha Collier, Richard Dawkins, William Gibson, Paul Kedrosky, Bill Gross, Peter McCormack ☠️, Paul Graham, Brian Solis - briansolis.eth, Jeff Jarvis, zeldman, Anne Applebaum, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Scott Galloway, Dan Ariely, John Battelle, Brian Stelter
nonzero.substack.com
Is Everything Falling Apart?
nonzero.substack.com
~12 min read · Apr 29th · Jonathan Haidt thinks so. I’m not so sure.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 360, including Steven Pinker, Ines Bieler, Mathew Ingram, Jonathan Haidt, KevinStrasser.com
Vox
Trends are dead
Vox
8 min read · May 11th · Everything and anything can be a trend on the internet. Why are we so determined to name them?
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 359, including Anthony Hamelle, Anne Helen Petersen, David Papandrew, Ines Bieler, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸
SFGATE
TikTok influencers are leading Gen Z off a debt cliff
SFGATE
~11 min read · May 4th · “Buy now, pay later” services could very well be jeopardizing the financial futures...
Reader View · Shared by 280, including Chaotic Goode, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Matt Navarra, Eghosa Omoigui
Poynter
In the age of social media blasts, what’s the point of letters to the editor?
Poynter
6 min read · May 18th · Publishing readers’ letters sends a message that they are equal participants and that reader criticism is a necessary part of how the news is made.
The Cut
The Anti-Instagram App Promising to Make Us Feel Good
The Cut
6 min read · May 20th · BeReal wants to capitalize off our desire for authenticity on social media.
Business Insider
The Philippines election may tell researchers how misinformation on TikTok could subvert democracies around the world
Business Insider
6 min read · May 9th · As Filipinos head to the polls, researchers worry TikTok disinformation may help elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of a brutal former dictator.
Robin Sloan
The lost thread
Robin Sloan
2 min read · Apr 26th · The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you.
Reader View · Shared by 153, including Alexis C. Madrigal, Mark Armstrong, Kyle Chayka, Mathew Ingram, Richard MacManus, Cory Doctorow, Fred Scharmen, Ralph Straumann, Ines Bieler, Anne Helen Petersen, Simon C, Chaotic Goode, JJ Flash, Craig Mod, Merlin Mann
youtube.com
Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson
youtube.com
Apr 21st · Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson: https://youtu.be/IC-B0QaoQ80#b2b #business #creator #cre...
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SparkToro
SparkToro & Followerwonk Joint Twitter Analysis: 19.42% of Active Accounts Are Fake or Spam
SparkToro
~11 min read · May 15th · TL;DR - From May 13-15, 2022, SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of 44,058 public Twitter accounts active in the last 90
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medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite.
Reader View · Shared by 1155, including Courtney Bolton ★, Parin Vachhani, Leo Polovets, Ryan Boren, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, fernand0, Tristan Harris, Kenneth Kalmer, Howard Getson, Matthias Sala, Nir Eyal, David Bauer, Chris Messina, Matt Navarra, Curadoria | Update or Die!, david cant 👷♂️, Thomas Power, Rand Fishkin, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, hiten.eth
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race…
Reader View · Shared by 1079, including Daniel Boos, Josh Elman, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Thomas Power, Nir Eyal, Mike Butcher, Casey Smith, Bill Widmer, Mathew Ingram, Hugo Amsellem, Ryan Hoover, Tristan Harris, DHH, Jane, Gerd Leonhard, John Battelle, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Charlie Oliver, Rafa #VidasNegrasImportam, Chris Messina
WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
WIRED
20+ min read · From 2018 · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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The Guardian
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
The Guardian
~14 min read · Jan 2nd · Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can
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Cloudflare
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
Cloudflare
2021-10-04 · Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on.
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The Atlantic
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
The Atlantic
20+ min read · Apr 11th · It’s not just a phase.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 841, including Jonathan Haidt, Niall Ferguson, Daniel Pink, Jeff Atwood, Marsha Collier, Richard Dawkins, William Gibson, Paul Kedrosky, Bill Gross, Peter McCormack ☠️, Paul Graham, Brian Solis - briansolis.eth, Jeff Jarvis, zeldman, Anne Applebaum, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Scott Galloway, Dan Ariely, John Battelle, Brian Stelter
Facebook Newsroom
It’s Facebook Official, Dating Is Here
Facebook Newsroom
From 2019 · Facebook Dating makes it easier to find love through what you like.
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MIT Technology Review
He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction
MIT Technology Review
20+ min read · 2021-03-11 · Three years ago, the company began building "responsible AI." This is the story of how it failed.
Reader View · Shared by 764, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Hilary Mason, Brendan Nyhan, Casey Newton, Andreas Staub, Scott Monty, John Burn-Murdoch, Andy Budd, Anne Applebaum, Carla Gentry, Kevin Roose, Steve Silberman, Sarah Frier, Mathew Ingram, Azeem Azhar, Nige Willson, Brian Solis - briansolis.eth, Bob E. Hayes, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
Axios
The new silent majority: People who don't tweet
Axios
1 min read · Mar 8th · The rising power and prominence of the nation's loudest, meanest voices distort our reality.
Reader View · Shared by 761, including Sebastien Meunier, Stéphanie Walter, Christopher Lauer, Frank Luntz, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Ziad Shihab, Giannis Chrysogonou, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Pleil
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