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YouTube Outlines Monetization Options for Creators
As it continues to expand and refine its monetization offerings, YouTube has provided a quick overview of the various money-making mechanisms that are now available to creators in the app, in order to help ensure that all creators are aware of their options. As you can see in this graphic, YouTubers now have a range of considerations on this front,…
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Reddit Rolls Out Updates to Its Conversation Ads
Reddit has announced an expansion of its Conversation Ads offering, which enables marketers to place their promotions within the chat section beneath Reddit posts. Which is where most of the engagement in the app happens, and now, Reddit says that all advertisers will be able to serve ads between comments on conversation pages when they run conversation ads. Reddit launched its updated…
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xAI Acquires X in a Deal That Secures the App’s Immediate Future
Okay, anybody who’s been closely watching the slow-speed financial crash of Twitter/X probably knew that Elon Musk was eventually going to find a way to funnel money from his xAI startup into the troubled app. I didn’t, however, think that he would be this upfront about it. Today, Elon Musk has announced X the platform has been acquired by xAI,…
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TikTok Retires Its Separate Notes App
RIP TikTok Notes. We hardly knew thee. Less than a year after the launch of its separate photo-sharing app, TikTok is discontinuing the experiment, and shutting down TikTok Notes for all users. Well, all users that could access it, that is, as TikTok Notes was only ever made available in certain nations. As you can see in this notification, shared…
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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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