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Joshua BentonJuly 23, 2024

Browser cookies, as unkillable as cockroaches, won’t be leaving Google Chrome after all

Google — which planned to block third-party cookies in 2022, then 2023, then 2024, then 2025 — now says it won’t block them after all. A big win for adtech, but what about publishers?

Sophie CulpepperJuly 16, 2024

Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it

“We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 14, 2024

People who got off Facebook for 6 pivotal weeks in 2020 may have been less likely to vote for Trump

“We do think our results can inform readers’ priors about the potential effects of social media in the final weeks of high-profile national elections.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 8, 2024

Screenshots are one big winner of Meta’s news ban in Canada

“We observe a dramatic increase in posts containing screenshots of Canadian news stories in the post-ban period.”

Renee DiResta, Abhiram Reddy, and Josh A. GoldsteinApril 24, 2024

From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam

Within days of visiting the pages — and without commenting on, liking, or following any of the material — Facebook’s algorithm recommended reams of other AI-generated content.

Joshua BentonApril 1, 2024

Yo! How a content-free social network briefly fascinated the world (and the news media)

Ten years ago today, a new app arrived to strip the “media” out of social media, reducing messaging to two little letters. It burned bright, but not for long.

Over 100 watchdog groups sign letter demanding Meta keep CrowdTangle running

Sarah ScireMarch 14, 2024

A window into Facebook closes as Meta sets a date to shut down CrowdTangle

CrowdTangle will close August 14. Meta has argued the tool was used to generate inaccurate and incomplete reports about Facebook.

Peter GresteMarch 4, 2024

Facebook will stop subsidizing Australian news. Will tax dollars have to replace it?

“If we accept that news is a public good, not something we can treat as a product to be traded like soap, then we have to develop economic models that somehow get the public to pay for it.”

Gretel KahnNovember 8, 2023

In Canada’s battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers are caught in the crossfire

Independent outlets explain how traffic and engagement have plummeted overnight after Meta blocked news from its platforms.

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