Mastodon and Bluesky are offering a future of the internet where users are placed in charge of their own content moderation. Is it workable for big social media platforms?
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The tech giants could belatedly be persuaded to take their responsibilities as publishers seriously, but only if there are laws backed up by large enough fines.
In brief: Dara Nasr, UK managing director at Twitter, is understood to have left the company after ten years.
In brief: hundreds more Twitter employees are said to have left the company yesterday following Elon Musk’s ultimatum that they agree to a more “hardcore” work environment.
Some advertisers might not mind Twitter lapsing into obscurity. But another platform is likely to emerge quickly.
In brief: employees must commit to “long working hours at high intensity” by Thursday or else leave the company with severance pay.
Consumers of news five days or more per week from certain outlets are more likely to believe in climate misinformation than those who don’t consume news at all.
In the week following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter late last month, popular misinformation-spreading Twitter accounts saw a 57.04% increase in engagement on the platform in the form of likes and retweets.
In brief: Contract workers’ terminations come as Omnicom and WPP media buying agency GroupM have reportedly urged clients to pause spend on the platform.
100% Media 0% Nonsense: Commercial media could prove remarkably resilient in this recession compared to previous downturns, writes the editor.