SOCIAL MEDIA
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TikTok Shares Data on EU Enforcement Actions in H2 2024
TikTok has published its latest Transparency Report, as required under the EU Code of Practice, which outlines all of the enforcement actions it undertook within EU member states over the last six months of last year. And there are some interesting notes in regard to the impact of content labeling, the rise of AI-generated or manipulated media, foreign influence operations,…
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X Suspends Accounts in Turkey After Government Removal Requests
Elon Musk’s X continues to take an uneven approach to government removal requests, with the platform suspending several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, as the Turkish government looks to quell unrest. The recent arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who’s considered to be the main political rival of Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s, has sparked a range of protest…
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Meta Continues to Integrate AI Bot Profiles into its Apps
Hey, remember how Meta sort of announced a plan to integrate millions of AI-powered profiles into Facebook and IG, and everybody was upset about it for a few days, but then Meta didn’t say anything else, and we all just sort of forgot that it was happening? Well it is indeed happening, with Meta slowly but surely integrating more and…
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Meta To Maintain Reliance on Third-Party Fact Checking for Upcoming Australian Election
Considering that Meta has been so definitive in its stance that Community Notes is an all-round better approach to content moderation within social apps, it’s interesting to read its latest overview of how it’s preparing for the upcoming Australian election, and how it’s planning to combat misinfo in a nation not governed by Donald Trump. Under local electoral rules, the…
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Threads Is Working On an Option To Replicate Your X Follows
Oh, Elon is not going to like this. According to a new discovery by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Meta’s Twitter clone Threads is currently working on a new update that would make it somewhat easier for Threads users to follow all of the same profiles in the app that they currently follow on X. As you can see in this…
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AI Harms Need To Be Factored Into Evolving Regulatory Approaches
As the AI development race heats up, we’re getting more indicators of potential regulatory approaches to AI development, which could end up hindering certain AI projects, while also ensuring more transparency for consumers. Which, given the risks of AI-generated material, is a good thing, but at the same time, I’m not sure that we’re going to get the due diligence…
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Instagram Experiments With AI-Generated Comments on Posts
I can’t imagine why anybody would want this, nor why Meta thinks that anyone would want it, while I also can’t see it having an overall positive impact on social media interaction. But… Apparently, Instagram is now experimenting with AI-generated comments on posts, so you don’t even have to come up with an opinion, or an original thought of your…
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TikTok Tops Download Charts in February, Despite US Download Ban
Yeah, that temporary ban on TikTok downloads in the U.S. doesn’t seem to have had much impact on the app’s momentum, based on the latest app download charts from AppFigures. As you can see, TikTok continued to top the overall download charts in February, after seeing the most downloads in January as well. That’s despite TikTok being technically banned in…
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X Offers Trip To Mars in March Madness Competition
So, this is something. Today, X has announced a March Madness “Bracket Challenge”, in partnership with Uber Eats, with the grand prize for a perfect March Madness bracket being a trip to Mars onboard one of Elon’s yet-to-be-built rocket ships. Yep, a trip to Mars. That’s definitely going to happen, definitely sometime in the next decade. As per X: “Basketball…
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TikTok Publishes 2025 Ramadan Marketing Guide
I may be a little late to the party on this one, with Ramadan already underway. But if you’re looking to tap into the celebration this month, TikTok has published a new guide full of key insights to help shape your Ramadan marketing strategy in the app. The 30-page guide includes a heap of usage data and insight to help…
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