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Turkey’s competition board has levied a hefty fine of 1.2 billion lira ($37.20 million) against Meta Platforms on Wednesday, following the conclusion of two separate investigations into the tech giant’s data-sharing activities involving its social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. Investigations into Threads and Instagram integrationThe investigations, which began in December, focused on potential violations of competition law stemming from the integration of Threads and Instagram. In response to these concerns, the competition board in March implemented int...
Invezz
Reddit Inc (NYSE: RDDT) is already up close to 40% versus its year-to-date low but analysts at Citi are convinced that it’s not out of juice just yet. Reddit stock could climb another 20%The investment firm reiterated its “buy” rating on the social news aggregator this morning and raised its price target to $65 which suggests another 20% upside from here. Citi remains bullish on Reddit stock after the quarterly earnings report the social media company posted last night. Analysts at the financial services behemoth told clients today: As Reddit builds out its ad stack, we look for Search (1B+ mo...
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Russia is increasingly using the TikTok social media platform to undermine Ukraine's morale and the legitimacy of President Volodymyr Zelensky, a senior Ukrainian official said in an interview with Bloomberg published on May 7. The campaign of Russian influencers and bots is to target on the date of May 20, a day when Zelensky's five-year term would have ended if not for the full-scale war. Ukraine's Constitution prohibits holding elections under martial law. "Russia is dominating us on TikTok due to the scale" of its operation, said Andrii Kovalenko, the head of an anti-disinformation departm...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russia is increasingly using the TikTok social media platform to undermine Ukraine's morale and the legitimacy of President Volodymyr Zelensky, a senior Ukrainian official said in an interview with Bloomberg published on May 7. The campaign of Russian influencers and bots is to target on the date of May 20, a day when Zelensky's five-year term would have ended if not for the full-scale war. Ukraine's Constitution prohibits holding elections under martial law. "Russia is dominating us on TikTok due to the scale" of its operation, said Andrii Kovalenko, the head of an anti-disinformation departm...
Kyiv Independent
Russia is increasingly using the TikTok social media platform to undermine Ukraine's morale and the legitimacy of President Volodymyr Zelensky, a senior Ukrainian official said in an interview with Bloomberg published on May 7. The campaign of Russian influencers and bots is to target on the date of May 20, a day when Zelensky's five-year term would have ended if not for the full-scale war. Ukraine's Constitution prohibits holding elections under martial law. "Russia is dominating us on TikTok due to the scale" of its operation, said Andrii Kovalenko, the head of an anti-disinformation departm...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies. We are a pair of researchers who investigate how social media affects the mental health of young people. More than 75% of teens check their phone hourly, and half say they feel like they’re addicted to their devices. Here are some of the things they’ve told us: “TikTok has me in a chokehold.” “I would 1,000% say I am addicted.” “I feel completely aware that it is...
PsyPost (CA)
Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies. We are a pair of researchers who investigate how social media affects the mental health of young people. More than 75% of teens check their phone hourly, and half say they feel like they’re addicted to their devices. Here are some of the things they’ve told us: “TikTok has me in a chokehold.” “I would 1,000% say I am addicted.” “I feel completely aware that it is...
PsyPost (UK)
Social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the United States over a law that would force the company to sell the popular video-sharing app or face a ban. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday may be setting up what could be a protracted legal fight over TikTok's future in the US. The popular social video company alleged the law, which president Joe Biden signed as part of a larger $95 billion foreign aid package, is so "obviously unconstitutional" that the sponsors of The Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act are trying to portray t...
Euronews (English)
A new lawsuit asks whether social media users can control what they see on their Facebook feeds. Last week, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit against Meta, Facebook's parent company, on behalf of a professor who wants to release a tool to empower social media users. University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Ethan Zuckerman would like to release a tool called "Unfollow Everything 2.0". This browser extension "would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfee...
Euronews (English)
Jack Dorsey has left Bluesky, the decentralised social media platform that he helped start. Dorsey, who also founded Twitter (now X), revealed he was no longer on Bluesky’s board after an X user asked him. Dorsey replied a simple “no” on Saturday. A day later, Bluesky said in a statement that it thanked him for “his help funding and initiating the bluesky project. Today, Bluesky is thriving as an open source social network running on atproto, the decentralised protocol we have built. “With Jack’s departure, we are searching for a new board member for the Bluesky public benefit company who shar...
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