social media
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Google Promises It Will Be More Open About Its Ads
Google is pinky-swearing it will be more transparent in the future about how and why you keep seeing the same ads that seem to know you much better than you know yourself, though only if you live in the European Union. In a blog post, Google’s VP of Trust and Safety Laurie Richardson said the…
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Instagram’s Adding a Chronological Feed for Stories and Reels in Europe
Meta announced it is implementing new “transparency measures” on Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday in response to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires Meta to comply by August 25. The measures will reportedly include archiving all targeted ads for users in the EU in its existing Ad Library and providing additional information…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Sparked an Exodus of Climate Voices, Researchers Find
X, formerly Twitter, has seen a rise in harassment and misinformation, pushing out progressive, climate-minded account users.
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You Should Turn Off Your YouTube Watch History
When I open YouTube these days, it’s mostly a mess. Sure, the videos they recommend me to watch vaguely resemble the type of content I’m interested in. But for the most part, I scroll past most of the noise until I see something half-way decent to click on. More often than not, the videos I…