GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Emily Parkhurst , publisher and market president for the Puget Sound Business Journal, will become vice president of content for 6AM City , a hyper-local newsletter and news aggregator company. Parkhurst said this was an opportunity she “could not pass up” to use her skills to rebuild trust in local media. Emily Parkhurst.

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Vox

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Twitter’s US user base was already in decline prior to the takeover by Musk,” said Jasmine Enberg, principal analyst for social media at Insider Intelligence. Twitter’s power was to be like a wire service for the 21st century,” explained Emily Bell, director of Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.

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Vox

JULY 14, 2023

A considerably smaller Canadian publication, the Tyee, reported on Wednesday that its social media manager, Sarah Krichel, was similarly blocked from viewing its Instagram account which, considering her job title, might be a bit of an issue. What it does is support a failing commercial legacy media model.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. The group is tasked with helping to create an interoperable open standard for companies to share the provenance, or history of ownership, of a piece of media.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2020

Performative social media is just a step toward lasting, impactful change. Navigating social media in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the subsequent national wave of protests has been a frustrating experience for many people — especially if they’re trying to figure out what to do and what not to do.

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Vox

JUNE 24, 2020

For most people, Instagram has long been the social media platform where they escape from the real world — and politics — to share a curated highlight reel of their lives. Of course, political activism on social media platforms, including Instagram, isn’t new. Zac Freeland/Vox. But recently, that’s changed.

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Vox

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Frances Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook’s civic integrity team, shared documents that were the basis of an explosive series of articles in the Wall Street Journal. Last week, it distributed an annotated version of the original research that was first published in the Journal.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 25, 2023

Since its release in November 2021, ChatGPT has amassed millions of users and widespread media coverage, greatly increasing OpenAI’s valuation. Nonetheless, the Wall Street Journal reported on January 5 that the AI lab is in negotiations with venture capital companies to sell at least US$300 million worth of current shares.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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Dataconomy

APRIL 18, 2023

Musk saw TruthGPT as a way to change the direction of OpenAI, the AI software nonprofit he helped start and which now has a for-profit branch. ” -Elon Musk So-called TruthGPT can be used for various purposes, such as education, research, journalism, entertainment, and social media. Elon Musk says that A.I.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Either in courts or in the media, hackers have been demonized. But MIT didn’t press charges. McAninch: Excellent.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

At this point, it isn’t exactly surprising that social media platforms like Facebook can have negative effects on society. For years, journalists, politicians, social scientists — and even biologists and ecologists — have been raising concerns about the influence Facebook has on our collective well-being.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. This year’s winners, announced on Tuesday , were largely dominated by media and entertainment companies. New Media Inc.

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Vox

JUNE 2, 2020

Some social media users are encouraging people who posted the black squares to delete or edit their posts to remove the hashtag. “If Instead of posting a black square and the hashtag, activists have urged people to consider donating to bail funds and other nonprofit efforts focused on fighting police brutality and helping protesters.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

“The only thing that would prompt us to stop doing this would be if Facebook would do it themselves, which we have called on them to do,” researcher Laura Edelson told The Wall Street Journal. Privacy in research and social media is a genuinely hard question. But the answer can’t be that Facebook unilaterally decides.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen created an international media blitz earlier this year when she leaked tens of thousands of damning internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal and US government. Google’s Gebru said that when she spoke out, she was heartened by how many tech workers supported her on social media.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. To its credit, TikTok has owned up to its overly draconian approach to the problem. “In

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

from what our policy is and the principles of the platform we’re running are — knowing that the decision that we made was going to lead to a lot of people being very upset inside the company and a lot of the media criticism we’re going to get,” said Zuckerberg. But “I knew that I needed to separate out my personal opinion. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. Yesterday I wrote about the Facebook ad boycott, and heard back from some people who thought I had been a little too rough on the advertisers — or a little too easy on the social network.

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Journalism, as an industry, is struggling badly. Employment in US newsrooms fell by 26 percent from 2008 to 2020 , and this fall has seen another end-of-year wave in media layoffs. But the honest answer to whether I regret taking the money knowing what we knew then , the answer is no.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It won’t say; Dustin Volz describes the range of possibilities nicely at the Wall Street Journal : The social-media company hasn’t said specifically how the attackers penetrated its internal systems and tools or indicated how long they had access to them. of the social media company’s technical roles, up from 1.5%

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

They’re not into social justice,” she said. Comcast is an investor in Vox Media.) The thing that makes this work so well is that all these entities stepped up and said, ‘We’ve got to solve this,’” said Deb Socia, president and CEO of the Enterprise Center, a local nonprofit. I said to both of them, ‘Are you kidding me? “The

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. And let’s invest in public social media — and public media in general — to see what kinds of good we can do online when we remove the profit motive.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Aaron Tilley and Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal ). Corruption in plain sight. Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. It doesn’t fit the kind of social use cases that we primarily care about. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge. Maybe someone else will make it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

All of it is basically in keeping with how American social platforms manage these concerns, though it’s worth noting that 2-year-old TikTok built this infrastructure much faster than its predecessors did. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Trending up : Google is giving more than $8.5

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Spiegel’s memo, which Snap later made public, also came as the big social companies were reckoning over what to do about President Donald Trump’s increasingly bellicose posts about voting by mail and peaceful protesters. Certainly there are good questions about what the news media chooses to amplify. Shirin Ghaffary / Recode ).

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ultimately, the platform is facing the same challenges of polarization and misinformation as other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The company has long aspired to be a social network where civility and neighborliness prevail; there’s even a guide to being respectful to your neighbors in the Nextdoor help center.

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Vox

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And his White House has reportedly told its Republican allies that Trump would like them to “ ratchet up scrutiny of social media companies it sees as biased against conservatives ” in the runup to next month’s presidential election; and they have obliged. But our distinctive brand of explanatory journalism takes resources.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a report about Facebook’s efforts to fight polarization since 2016, based on internal documents and interviews with current and former employees. Anyway, Facebook reacted to the Journal report with significant frustration. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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