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Hello, Content Creators. Silicon Valley’s Investors Want to Meet You.
The online influencer culture is starting to draw serious interest from big venture capital firms. But the real money could be in digital tools, not the personalities.
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What Is the Metaverse?
Crypto people say they’re building it. Gamers might already be living in it. The art world is cashing in on it. Web veterans are trying to save it. But what is it?
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TikTok Resumes makes it easy to apply for jobs via the app
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TikTok has launched a new feature aimed at encouraging its community to use its app to apply for jobs. The launch of TikTok Resumes comes a couple of months after rumors about the feature first surfaced. At the moment, the company is running TikTok Resumes as a pilot program for its U.S.-based community until the end of this month, though expect it to be rolled out more widely if it performs successfully.
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Biden order: End the monopoly game
President Biden wants to remake the U.S. economy by injecting more competition into highly concentrated industries including airlines, Big Tech and agriculture to improve choices and prices for consumers. Why it matters: The ambitious executive order signed Friday directs the federal government to step up antitrust enforcement and regulation.
“Let me be very clear, capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation,” Biden said at a White House signing ceremony for the order.
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump
The company they built is wildly successful. But her Washington wisdom didn’t hold up, and neither did their close working relationship.
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QAnon Pivots Its Exiled Online Movement to the Real World
The conspiracists might have been deplatformed, but their movement is shifting into local elections and events.
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TikTok made me buy it
The video app is causing products to blow up — and flame out — faster than ever.
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TikTok is taking the book industry by storm, and retailers are taking notice
“BookTok” has sent old books back to the top of bestseller lists and helped launch the careers of new authors. Videos with the BookTok hashtag have been viewed a collective 12.6 billion times.
Source: TikTok is taking the book industry by storm, and retailers are taking notice
Five new bills aim to break up Big Tech platforms, force them to play nice
Legislators in the US House of Representatives introduced five new bills Friday afternoon that promise the biggest overhaul of antitrust law since the trust-busting era of the early 1900s.
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Google Chat is back for real, and Google’s going to need it to win the future of work
Google’s messaging strategy has gone haywire. Now it’s coming back into focus.
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How beauty filters took over social media
The most widespread use of augmented reality isn’t in gaming: it’s the face filters on social media. The result? A mass experiment on girls and young women.
TikTok To Charge As Much As $2 Million For ‘TopView’ Ads In The Fourth Quarter
By year’s end, TikTok will be charging a daily rate of $2 million for its prime ad placement — the skippable ‘ TopView ’ format that fires up fullscreen, with sound, when users open the app. In the third quarter of this year, the app is asking for $1.4 million daily for TopView ads — and as much as $1.5 million on national holidays — reports Bloomberg , which obtained a rate card detailing pricing plans.
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Facebook’s content moderators are fighting back
Seven hours a day, Isabella Plunkett and 15,000 other content moderators around the world look at and filter the most repulsive content on the internet for Facebook. But they don’t actually work for Facebook. These workers, outsourced and employed by agencies, claim they are paid unfairly, that they are gagged by non-disclosure agreements and that they are given next to no support for the damage caused by looking at such content.
The Antidote to Snapchat Dysphoria? Getting Weird.
AR-enhanced face filters are here to stay, and Ines Alpha is working to free them from tired beauty standards.
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South Korean blind activists are pushing Samsung and LG to reform
Touch screens and image-based interfaces can make the visually impaired “feel more disabled”
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How ‘Roblox’ Became a Playground for Virtual Fascists
Thousands of players flocked to a digital world filled with draconian rules, slavery, and anti-Semitism—and tested how far “just a game” can go.
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I saw millions compromise their Facebook accounts to fuel fake engagement
Global South users often share their accounts with shady middlemen. The practice is corrupting civil discourse around the world.
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TikTok’s Trump problem is now TikTok’s Biden problem
It’s official: Biden has reversed Trump’s executive order banning TikTok in the United States, bringing to a close a period of uncertainty over the immediate fate of the wildly popular social media app. But TikTok’s problems with the US government are far from over.
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?
The Dark, Democratizing Power of the Social-Media Stock Market
In early March, about fifty investors received links to an anonymously created, password-protected Web site. On the site was a seven-page white paper, which opened with the question “What Is BitClout?” BitClout, the paper explained, is a social network that runs on blockchain technology, allowing users to “speculate on people and posts with real money.” Every user is given a public price, which is the amount of money that it costs to buy his or her “creator coin.” With the platform’s native cryptocurrency (also called bitclout), users could buy the coin of any other user on the site.
Source: The Dark, Democratizing Power of the Social-Media Stock Market