The Joe Biden campaign posted an open letter to Facebook calling on Facebook to strengthen its rules on misinformation. As you may have guessed, Facebook has absolutely no interest in doing anything that would stem the tide of misinformation on…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY. The CMA is considering whether that transaction has resulted in the creation of a relevant merger situation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002. If…
Facebook and Twitter are very different social media platforms. Recently, the differences have become vividly clear, as we see how each platform chooses how they will respond to controversial content posted by President Trump. The Verge obtained a recording of…
The Wall Street Journal has a very detailed article that examines why Facebook is such a toxic place to visit. Several efforts were made internally to make Facebook less divisive, but executives shut down or weakened those efforts. Facebook had…
Facebook has acquired GIPHY to be part of the Instagram team. GIPHY was created in 2013 with the goal of making communication more fun. GIPHY announced that it will be joining the team at Instagram. This makes sense, considering that…
Facebook is rolling out Messenger Rooms. They also are expanding WhatsApp group calls, and adding new live video features for Facebook, Instagram, and Portal. Perhaps Facebook is trying to compete with Zoom, which has grown to 300 million users. Messenger…
The Australian federal government has asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to create a mandatory code of conduct that would require companies like Google and Facebook to pay media companies for news. This comes after the ACCC advised…