Zoom announced that it has begun rolling out an advertising program for millions of Basic users who take advantage of the free video conferencing service. At least for now, ads will show only on the browser page that users see after a meeting ends. In Zoom’s announcement blog post, the companyContinue Reading
Two headlines caught my eye today, and sadly they are related. Meta (the faceless corp. once known as Facebook) took down a large troll farm on Facebook run by Nicaragua’s government. The tale of the troll farm plays out like I would have expected, from Facebook’s report, “We removed a networkContinue Reading
Facebook has been a busy little beaver this week. It’s just possible the social network, with 2.89 billion users, generated more headlines this week than Dave Chappelle’s extremely overly discussed three-week-old stand-up special. Here’s a bit of a round-up of some of the reason’s the social network made headlines thisContinue Reading
In a statement YouTube said, starting today it will remove content uploaded to its platform containing allegations that fraud or widespread errors altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The video platform said content “that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome” of theContinue Reading
Twitter announced it plans to once again start taking applications for verification in 2021. While Twitter never really stopped handing out “blue ticks” the company discontinued the open application process in 2017 after being criticized for verifying Jason Kessler, an organizer of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The company says they plan toContinue Reading
Expanding on an existing feature that shows users a warning when they try to ReTweet content the social media company has flagged as containing “misleading information”. Twitter will now show users more or less the same warning when they try to Like Tweets with a misinformation label. “Giving context on whyContinue Reading
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing free public access to digitized materials, including a substantial archive of web pages in the Wayback Machine announced they will start adding a fact check banner to some pages in the archive. Relying on third party checking organizations including FactCheck.org, Check Your Fact, Lead Stories, Politifact, Washington Post Fact-Checker, APContinue Reading
As part of a storm of recent actions Facebook is taking to prepare for next week’s U.S. presidential election, the social giant has stopped recommending groups focused on political and social issues. This announcement, made during Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate testimony, comes just one day after Zuckerberg expressed concern of elevated risk of disturbances inContinue Reading
Editors Note: Mason Pelt the founder of Push ROI, a digital agency offing YouTube Channel Management. He has no conflict of interest with any party mentioned in this article. This week, YouTube announced an updated harassment policy aimed to punish YouTubers for going “too far.” After the announcement, swarms of creators andContinue Reading
Yahoo announced this week it will sunset its Yahoo Groups platform. The announcement post says that on October 21, users will no longer be able to post new content on the site, and on December 14 all content will be permanently deleted. Yahoo Groups has been around since 2001, and hasContinue Reading