Downloads of Twitter's app have grown steadily in the first week since Elon Musk became the company's owner, but other apps — particularly Mastodon, a distributed open-source service — are starting to gain traction, too, as users begin to...
Journalism faces major challenges in 2022 because the digital revolution upended the traditional advertising and mass circulation business model and diminished the news media’s gatekeeper role on information. This has created economic problems even at the most successful publications....
The U.S. midterms are tomorrow, and news outlets across the country are rolling out their voting coverage: Candidates casting their ballots, “I Voted” stickers, election workers preparing polling places, and lines of eager voters.
Origen: Election coverage that shows generic...
YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube’s endless-scrolling short-form TikTok competitor, is quick to quote the numbers: 1.5 billion users a month are watching Shorts, and they’re watching 30...
Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.53% is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be the largest round in a recent spate of tech job cuts after the industry’s rapid...
Disinformation travels fast! With that in mind, MediaWise and Noticias Telemundo have teamed up again to create a course specifically informing you about the dangers of misleading information, and how to avoid it.This free course focuses on misinformation on...
Hope for a Post-Musk NetA federated future and suggestions for citizens and institutionsMaybe we’ll look back and see that Elon Musk did us, the civilized citizens of the net, a favor by forcing us off our cozy if centralized,...
As the news agenda continues to be dominated by crisis after crisis, data suggests that increasing numbers of people are dealing with the doom and gloom by simply avoiding it.According to this year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report, 38%...
The alligators of TikTok are not what they seem.They appear in posts scattered across the video service, photoshopped into hurricane-flooded homes, blended into cheetah-pitbull hybrids or awaiting a wrestling match with a digitally engineered avatar of Tom Cruise.
Origen: Worries...
Twitter is changing, and it's tough to predict what might be next. If you've been lucky enough to build a follower base on Twitter, and you've ever thought about forging a direct link with them that you control via...
