@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Atlantic files to dismiss FBI Director Kash Patel's $250M defamation suit, calling it "politically motivated", and seeks DOJ records to uphold its reporting (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jou…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Chinese platforms like ActID and New Claw are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, often using vague licensing terms (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-microdramas-face-licensing/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialParrot Analytics: global demand for Spanish- and Portuguese-language streaming series has risen 25% since 2024, with demand rising 100% in East Asia and Turkey (Christofer Hamilton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/st…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI hardly use WhatsApp. Today, they put my account in review, for unspecified activity that violated their terms of service.
I have not done anything on WhatsApp for at least 48 hours.
They reviewed my account, and decided my number can no longer use WhatsApp.
This is why we must leave meta systems as much as we can; they are unreliable and usually working to harm us. Please reach me on Mastodon and Bluesky.
@profcarroll@federate.socialThe Mega Meta settlement bundles the outstanding Cambridge Analytica lawsuits as well.
@cdarwin@c.imNOW
When TechCrunch reached out to Meta on Saturday, a spokesperson said, “This was an error and the ads are being restored.”
We’ve asked Meta for more details and will update this article if we hear back.
YouTube also posted an update Saturday, noting that “the trailer has always been available on YouTube.” (Indeed, that’s how we were able embed it at the end of this article.)
The company added, “When submitted as an ad, it was temporarily restricted by our system. …
@jon@henshaw.socialThe term for this is: Oligopolistic gatekeeping.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001047/big-tech-is-too-cowardly-to-run-ads-for-the-musk-documentary
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMeta Platforms führt Abos ein: Links von Instagram und mehr KI
Meta Platforms führt neue kostenpflichtige Abonnements namens Meta One ein. Gleich zehn verschiedene.
https://www.h…
@barijaona@mastodon.mgBringing Swift to the Apple II
https://yeokhengmeng.com/2026/06/swift-on-apple-ii/?utm_source=fediverse
An interesting takeaway: systematically writing (or updating) documentation before starting to code may well become common practice again.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaDecentralized Social Media: What Creators Need To Know About Web3 Platforms
Most people don’t think about where their social media actually lives.
And if that doesn’t sit right with you, you’re not alone. That’s a little too much power for a small group of people to wield.
Here’s the good news: A different kind of social media is starting to grow in the background. One built on openness, transparency, and user control instead of central control.
@cheeaun@mastodon.social🔗 https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/social-media-platforms-must-verify-advertisers-identities-under-new-singapore-code
- FB, IG & TikTok must soon verify the identities of advertisers on their platforms again…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSeveral independent publishers, including Gadget Review and Bro Bible, say they have been removed from Microsoft's syndication platform MSN without any notice (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/msn-removes-publishe…
@newstik@social.heise.deUnd, zückt Ihr schon die Kreditkarte für Euer Meta-Abo für Instagram, Facebookd und Whatsapp?
https://www.heise.de/news/Meta-Platforms-fuehrt-Abos-ein-Links-von-Instagram-und-mehr-KI-11455924.html
@wraithe@mastodon.socialHow do I know that Mastodon & Bluesky work for me and I’m following the right people?
Both my feeds on those platforms are wall-to-wall Dolly Parton, RN
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBrazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialSomething that I wrote a year ago:
"But – wasn’t the word-wide-web designed to be a … web? Where links connect sites & information? I’m sad to say: The big players have succeeded to destroy a part of this ideology by creating walled platforms. And we happlily followed. 😭"
https://www.lock…
@ncoca@social.coopI support I should feel sorry, but as someone who has repeatedly warned #nonprofits (& media outlets) that I've worked about their over-rerliance on #bigtech platforms, I find it hard to really be so sympathetic.
Also - how can it be that I, an individual, have a most robust data backup and…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Meta has submitted a proposal to Canada that includes a path to restoring news on its platforms but does not include payments to publishers (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/canada-playbook/2026/07/27/no-easy-way-out-01012410
@lpryszcz@genomic.social"Platforms are not useless. They help people find each other. They make publishing easy. They can carry a link farther than a small site can on its own. The problem starts when they become the whole mental model of the Internet. If every public conversation has to pass through a feed controlled by a company, then online life becomes less like a city of neighborhoods and more like a mall where every corridor belongs to the same landlord."
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe Fediverse, however, has *all* of the idiots too horrible for X and Meta, but they only federate with each other, mostly. @… https://
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialProud moment: English National Ballet’s Digital Platforms Manager job description includes Monad as one of the key digital systems their new hire will be responsible for.
https://careers.ballet.org.uk/en/postings/c386b5a1-8b1d-4e20-be5e-357874e4954a
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAt the rescheduled WHCA dinner, Trump praised the press corps' response to the April shooting before insulting journalists and celebrities who criticized him (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 2187 nodes and 114330 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
@cdarwin@c.imThe Securities and Exchange Commission opened a new route Thursday for tokenized stock trading,
just two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and stalled Congress’s sweeping effort to rewrite federal rules for cryptocurrency markets.
The SEC’s five-year “Innovation Exemption” allows qualifying platforms to facilitate trading in tokenized versions of publicly traded stocks without registering as national securities exchanges.
Certain liquidity providers can also rec…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeDoes anybody else use Arch (btw) as one of their CI runner platforms for the explicit purpose of being a "canary in the coal mine" for breaking changes coming down the pipeline in some dependency?
Like, sure we have some users on Arch.
But what I care more about is that whatever breaks on Arch today will probably break in, say, the next Ubuntu release, and the Debian release after that. I don't want that to be a surprise.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored"; YouTube is also allowing the ads (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/meta-says-it-will-run-a…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz#CitizenScience platforms must mitigate against the threat of #GenerativeAI: #birdwatching forums putting research at risk: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe - experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists. (Not aware of similar problems in astronomical citsci yet but the potential surely exists ...)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US CFTC exempts "passive software" providers from broker registration if they never hold user assets, expanding crypto and prediction market online trading (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialNielsen rolls out changes to make its ratings more accurate, including using data from smartwatch-like devices worn by its panelists without requiring logins (Loree Seitz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/nielsen-changes-c…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOver 120 journalists at Business Insider and Politico signed on to a letter protesting parent company Axel Springer's decision to honor Peter Thiel on Thursday (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo
@tschfflr@fediscience.org@… "Can emojis be removed from Unicode? Or are they there forever once they are in?" - As of now, once they're in, they're in. The code point in Unicode is then reserved for this symbol. This can be a problem because emojis are kind of open-ended (other than alphabets and many other symbol lists). And it's possible that some emojis turn out to be rarely used. I could imagine that eventually some platforms just stop supporting a certain emoji - but it's really useful to have an international encoding standard which is fully supported by most technology (as anyone who has programmed or written online text in the early 2000s can attest). That's why getting a new emoji approved has become so hard - we're basically creating a kind of tech debt for a potentially long time.
Funny story - you could try creating a post now with a Unicode character from an "empty" code point in the emoji range, in the hope that it will get assigned in a later round. I've seen such a post on the old Twitter, which later was filled with all kinds of random emojis, when you look at it in a few years. #linguistics #emojis #WorldEmojiDay
@stefan@gardenstate.socialidea: A website that scores how likely a show is to be removed from all streaming platforms.
@jon@henshaw.socialFor those who make PWAs like me, I just updated my article on how to make the icons work for Safari on iOS and macOS, along with the standard approach for every other browser and platform.
https://coywolf.com/guides/how-to-create-pwa-icons-t…
@cdarwin@c.imAt a liquor store, bar, or casino, getting carded is part of the cost of entry.
Now the internet is carding people, too
—and the companies doing the carding are cashing in.
New laws and platform rules are pushing games, social platforms, AIproducts, and adult sites to replace birthday boxes
(the fields where you enter your DOB)
with identity checks.
What was once a compliance tool for sellers in age-restricted industries is becoming infrastructure for the i…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plans-launch-hatch-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK PM backs Ofcom to take "tough action" under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos after a crash killed seven people (Raphael Boyd/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/m…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook decline to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing "political content" (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe White House launches Trump TV, a 24/7 YouTube livestream of the administration's "top past moments", after press pool ban; critics call it "state-run media" (Casey Loving/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/po
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialNew Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring "high risk" platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue (Tracy Withers/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNielsen rolls out changes to make its ratings more accurate, including using data from smartwatch-like devices worn by its panelists without requiring logins (Loree Seitz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/nielsen-changes-c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/me…
@cdarwin@c.imIf none of this makes sense to you, don’t worry.
There is absolutely no need to understand any of this to enjoy using Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI (Will Shanklin/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2214198/public-betas-for-ios-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialForbes says it's cutting "a small percentage" of staff, citing H1 revenue shortfalls and changing audience habits, but doesn't say if editorial roles were cut (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/forbes…
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Sirota:
None of the Bush/Cheney people who stole the 2000 election,
lied America into war
and created conditions for the financial crisis
paid any personal price at all.
On the contrary, Obama's "look forward, not back" policy gave them get-out-of-jail-free cards,
and they were all promptly enriched and rewarded with media platforms, stature and money,
positioning them to then take partial control of the Democratic Party and the …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUK PM backs Ofcom to take "tough action" under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos after a crash killed seven people (Raphael Boyd/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/m…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US criticizes Australia's digital duty-of-care proposal, which has a provision that would require social media platforms to let users opt out of algorithms (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMeta und BlackRock bauen 1-GW-Rechenzentrum in Texas
Meta Platforms und BlackRock errichten ein 1-GW-Rechenzentrum in El Paso, Texas. BlackRock hält 80 Prozent.
https://www.heise.de/news/M…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCloudflare plans a shift from a "pay-per-crawl" to a "pay-per-use" model, and blocking AI bots creates "reliable scarcity" that is fuelling publisher AI deals (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/c
@cdarwin@c.imElon Musk’s America PAC has dropped $100 million to support the GOP
in critical races that could control the future of the Senate.
It includes TV commercials, digital ads, and a social media blitz across platforms Musk owns and platforms he doesn’t.
The eleventh-hour push is a brazen attempt to stoke the anti-trans moral panic and turn equal rights for transgender people into a make-or-break campaign issue.
“The PAC’s emphasis on trans issues is striking because that’…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B (Vallari Sanzgiri/The Hindu BusinessLine)
https://www.thehindubusi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNew Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring "high risk" platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue (Tracy Withers/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrime Video launches a bundle with AMC , Starz, MGM , PBS Masterpiece, and BritBox for $29.99 per month, a savings of ~39% vs. subscribing to each individually (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/st
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIllinois Governor JB Pritzker signs the Children's Social Media Safety Act, a bill designed to limit children's access to "addictive" social media algorithms (Ben Szalinski/Capitol News Illinois)
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/p
@cdarwin@c.imNew #Bandcamp Layoffs:
Why Artists Are Worried and Where to Turn
Last week, Bandcamp laid off more engineers.
Here's why some artists are panicking and the alternative direct-to-fan platforms gaining traction.
For independent artists and labels, Bandcamp isn't just another platform.
While Spotify and other streamers pay artists a small fraction of revenue per play,
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe US criticizes Australia's digital duty-of-care proposal, which has a provision that would require social media platforms to let users opt out of algorithms (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management)
https://www.wealthmanagement.com/advisor-s
@cdarwin@c.imA group of US lawmakers is sounding the alarm over
prediction market platforms that allow users to bet on wildfires,
as experts warn the emerging trend could raise the risk of arson.
Democratic senators from six states sent a letter this week to the chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),
an independent government agency regulating platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi,
urging it to rein in the practice.
“As the United States faces yet …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKalshi and Polymarket bets on the FIFA World Cup final top $5.69B; Dune Analytics says total wagers on the platforms surpassed $50B for the first time in June (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/business/world-cup-kalshi-polymarket…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK CMA is weighing new rules to allow UK app developers to direct customers to payment options outside of Apple and Google's platforms, bypassing their fees (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-t…
@cdarwin@c.imCorporate platforms – Google, Meta, Amazon – that now dominate digital life
are far closer to William Gibson's original vision than to the participatory web that briefly flourished between them.
Gibson imagined cyberspace as a space of corporate dominance from the start;
Silicon Valley built the open internet first,
-- then converged on his dystopia anyway.
The difference is that, in Neuromancer, that convergence was the disaster to be resisted.
T…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU appears to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, such as sharing search data (Jacob Parry/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-changes-gear…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialForbes Chief Content Officer and magazine EIC Randall Lane has left after joining in 2011; executive editor Kerry Lauerman will oversee editorial operations (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/highlighted-news/forbes-chief-content…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDraft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney signs a deal with Dhar Mann Studios to produce 20 episodes as it makes a push into creator content; Mann has ~300M views each week across platforms (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/disney…
@cdarwin@c.imAI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers
in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a
“complex social system in which humans and Agents participate together.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAd tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/18/infillion-acquires-foursquare-location-data
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFormer 60 Minutes managing editor Guy Campanile says he and his fired colleagues "refused to be accomplices in the destruction" of the news program (JD Knapp/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/60-minutes-fired-edit…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNYT introduces The Local: Twin Cities, a pilot newsletter with original reporting, a goal of promoting local outlets, and an August launch date (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/the-new-york-times-local…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis finds 60 "jacket apps" on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses (9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/investigation-re…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustralia proposes a "My Feed, My Way" initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labou…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe FCC votes to repeal the national broadcast ownership cap and replace it with a case-by-case review, approving the measure by a 2-1 margin (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/fcc-national-broadcast-ownership-cap-repeal-vote/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US SEC unveils a five-year "Innovation Exemption" to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-securitie
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix and Prime Video lead in international content but differ in strategies, with Netflix favoring shows from Asia, while Prime leans towards Europe (Christofer Hamilton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/net…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew Mexico trial: a judge orders Meta to pay $567M and make changes for underage users after finding its platforms helped create a public nuisance harming teens (KOB 4)
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-567m-make-chang…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialData infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rk71zhxeml
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLicensed shows account for ~40% of Netflix's global series titles but generate 50% of series-driven sign-ups, meaningfully outpacing their share of the catalog (Christofer Hamilton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/net…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: over 50 Scripps-owned local TV stations returned to DirecTV's satellite and streaming platforms after a distribution dispute ended on Friday (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/07/directv-scripps-uverse-return-new-deal/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly "proliferates" copyright-infringing tracks (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/uni
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that prohibits social media platforms from offering addictive features to users under 16, the first such law in the US (New York Times)
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDraft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStudy: social networks drove 5.7M visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82M and X for 1.3M visits (Ej Dickson/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-and-x-have-become-gateways-to-nudify-apps/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix strikes a multiyear distribution deal with EverPass to bring the streamer's NFL live events to commercial places like bars and restaurants in the US (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/netflix-everpass-media-nfl…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAs China's rules for humanlike AI interaction take effect, many users are bemoaning the loss of the virtual companions they had created on Chinese AI platforms (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSensor Tower: Netflix's GTA VI extended look premiere drove a 24% surge in its US app downloads compared to the previous day; GTA VI's pre-orders jumped 436% (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/netflix-g…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Fox podcast exec Chris Balfe on podcasts being synonymous with video and how clipping is shifting ad dollars from creators to short-form platforms (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-podcast…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocuments: the European Commission plans to propose an EU KIDS Act on Thursday to set a minimum age for accessing social media, video platforms, games, and more (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-propose-new-legislation-on-minors-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAd tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/18/infillion-acquires-foursquare-location-data
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as "very large online platforms" under the DSA as soon as August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/chatgp…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAustralia proposes a "My Feed, My Way" initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labou…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNielsen begins posting streaming top 10 charts 11 days after each reporting period ends, down from nearly a month; studios and platforms now get daily ratings (Josef Adalian/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/nielsen-faster-streaming-tv-ratings.html
