- Bluesky Rolls Out Blue Check Verification For Notable Users
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, April 21, 2025
Bluesky is rolling out visible account verification labels that will be appli ...
- TikTok Tests 'Community Notes' Copycat
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, April 17, 2025
TikTok is now testing "Footnotes" - its own version of user-sourced contextu ...
- Safety Loopholes Found For Children Using Roblox
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, April 14, 2025
Despite a range of recently launched child-safety tools, Roblox may be ...
- Instagram Works With Schools To Counter In-App Bullying
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Instagram is inviting U.S. middle and high schools to report in-app te ...
- Journalists Make Up 'Backbone' Of Community Notes On X: Report
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, March 19, 2025
As Meta rolls out the first stage of its controversial content-moderation progr ...
- Meta To Launch Controversial 'Community Notes' Feature On Instagram, Facebook, Threads
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, March 14, 2025
Meta has officially announced the first stage of "Community Notes," a controversi ...
- Jim Jordan Demands Input From Google About White House 'Censorship'
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 6, 2025
"To inform legislative reforms to protect Americans' civil liberties, the committee mu ...
- SCOTUS Wants To Hear From Meta In Battle Over Content Moderation
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 4, 2025
The Supreme Court has asked Meta Platforms to respond to a petiti ...
- Judge Sides With Google, TikTok In Battle Over Potentially Harmful Video
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 25, 2025
A federal judge has dismissed a complaint alleging that Google's YouTube a ...
- No Joy At MSNBC As Left-Leaning Media Assesses Life Under Trump
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The TV news-and-commentary landscape is undergoing changes in the new era ...
- Meta Remains Vague About Controversial 'Community Notes'
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, February 21, 2025
Despite the concerns of its own Safety Council, Meta is pushing ahea ...
- FTC Investigates 'Censorship' By Social Platforms
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 20, 2025
"Today's announcement marks an important step forward in restoring free speech a ...
- Tegna Pulls Its Verify Fact-Checking Unit: Who's Next?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 7, 2025
Tegna is ending its Verify fact-checking group, laying off around 18 journalist ...
- Safety Council To Meta: New Policy Changes Concern Us
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 31, 2025
The Meta Safety Advisory Council has written a letter to Meta listi ...
- Meta Exceeds Q4 Expectations, Reality Labs Bounces Back
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, January 30, 2025
Meta's Q4 results show steady growth. The company has exceeded expectations ...
- Meta: 'Community Notes' Will Not Affect Paid Ads
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, January 21, 2025
"Meta has told advertisers that Community Notes will apply to organic post ...
- Bluesky Increased Content Moderation By 17x In 2024
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 17, 2025
While X and Meta have reduced content moderation and slashed third-party fact-checkin ...
- Say Goodbye To DEI, Meta Goes Full MAGA
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Saturday, January 11, 2025
Meta is killing off its biggest DEI programs as part of ...
- Bluesky, Valued At $700M, Responds To 'Free Speech' Model With Funding Push
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, January 9, 2025
Bluesky has announced a new funding push in an attempt to positi ...
- Fact-Check: Industry Response To Meta Decision Muted
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Meanwhile, Dentsu has quietly abandoned an effort to organize an ad indust ...
- Meta Granted Exempt Content-Moderation Status To Top Advertisers
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Documents revealed a two-tiered content-moderation system that protected Meta's biggest ad-revenue strea ...
- Meta Halts Fact-Checking In A Move Praised By Trump
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Critics fear that this could lead to a spread of disinformation. ...
- The Invisible Hand Of The Ad Market
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, January 8, 2025
"Watch for Meta to start selling monthly subscriptions similar to what ...
- Pornographic Videos Appear In Spotify Search Function
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, December 30, 2024
As Spotify continues to build out its visual content offerings, the mus ...
- Bluesky's Safe-Space Reputation Threatened By One User's Views On Trans Issues
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, December 13, 2024
Bluesky is now under fire from thousands of users who want t ...
- Trump FTC Chief Pick Warned Against Online Data Collection
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 11, 2024
The "massive collection, repackaging, sharing, and retention of our private and intima ...
- Bluesky Lays Out Plans To Combat Election Misinformation
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, November 4, 2024
Bluesky's election integrity team and Head of Trust and Safety Aaron Roderic ...
- Meta Can't Shake Securities Fraud Suit Over Statements About Content, Teen Safety
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Siding against Meta Platforms, a judge refused to dismiss a securities fra ...
- TV Debates' QR Codes: Multitasking Media Behavior Misses The Big Picture
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 3, 2024
Avoiding efforts to do fact-checking strikes at the heart of what real-ti ...
- Reddit Reduces Moderators' Control Over Subreddits
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, September 30, 2024
Reddit has announced new rules that require moderators to submit a form ...