Social Media
Articles involving social media businesses and their products, including Meta (Facebook, Instagram), X Corp (Twitter), Mastodon, LinkedIn and others.
Twitter contractors allowed to snoop on user accounts, report says
In an article detailing this month's massive Twitter Bitcoin scam, Bloomberg said contractors were allowed broad access to user accounts.
Viewpoint: Social media companies are too big to police themselves
Financial loss was the goal of last week's attack — but bad actors could have more-nefarious intentions when conducting social media hacks in the future.
By:
Kobi Leins
Twitter Bitcoin scam reveals broader threat to security, democracy
Twitter mediates so much in the public sphere that weak points — like last week's compromise of several dozen verified accounts — expose weaker points in society.
By:
Dr. Laura DeNardis
Disney pulls back on Facebook spending; analysts say company can weather storm
After securing the spot as Facebook's top advertiser in the first half of 2020, Disney is pulling back on its social media advertisement spending.
Algorithm change catapults Fox News to top spot on YouTube
The Google-owned company tweaked its recommendations formula to reduce the introduction of conspiracy theories to its audience. In doing so, it gave Fox News a big boost.
Viewpoint: Twitter and the way of the hashtag
From its beginnings as a geeky tool designed to help individual users deal with an increasingly fragmented information stream, Twitter made the hashtag a new and powerful part of the world’s cultural, social and political vocabulary.
By:
Jean Burgess
Twitter hints at future subscription service in job listing
The forthcoming subscription product is expected to be incorporated into Twitter's video services, a source said.
Viewpoint: TikTok teens punked Donald Trump — and may have threatened democracy, too
Social media has enabled protests and meaningful political action by capturing public attention, but it can also make the electoral process vulnerable to misinformation and manipulation.
By:
Anjana Susarla
BuzzFeed fires senior reporter Ryan Broderick over alleged plagiarism
The ex-senior reporter was fired by BuzzFeed after editors discovered stolen information in at least 11 news stories.
What happened? MSNBC math flub forces on-air correction
A tweet from a freelance columnist made it to air on an MSNBC news program, despite the fact the tweet contained inaccurate math.
Twitter temporarily closes Seattle office over coronavirus fear
Twitter has temporarily closed its Seattle office after an employee was told by a medical professional they may have coronavirus.
Twitter tells employees to work from home as coronavirus outbreak intensifies
Social networking service Twitter has sent a note to employees encouraging many of them to work from home as concerns over the global coronavirus outbreak intensifies.