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Instagram head Adam Mosseri released a lengthy video late Wednesday explaining the social network’s ranking algorithms and addressing potential concerns of shadowbanning. The at-times-technical, nine-minute video comes just weeks ahead…

Like a voodoo doll that’s been poked and prodded by an overly-enthusiastic amateur magician, Elon Musk’s Twitter has started to come apart at the seams. Now it’s an open question if Musk’s well-known vindictiveness has broken another…

Next year, Google will get rid of third-party cookies, the tracking tool marketers and data hogs have used to follow you around the web since 1994. To replace the cookie, Google has an offering for the world. It’s called “Privacy…

When people start complaining that your tech company is ruining the world, you hire a guy like Rob Leathern. He joined Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, just asthe Cambridge Analytica scandal convinced the public that…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company needs to run like a well oiled machine during this ongoing “Year of Efficiency.” Making sure that machine runs as “efficiently” as possible will require employees to expect the machine will chew…

Photo: Getty/GizmodoOn Thursday, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen spoke to a national organization that convenes investors, telling them that Meta was an unwise place to put their money, specifically the version of Meta under the…

Illustration: Lightspring (Shutterstock)Last week on Zoom, where I spend all the best moments of my life, I spoke with the chief product office of an ad tech company called Full Throttle. Amol Waishampayan said his company has a…

Meta appears to have suspended an Instagram parody account attempting to post this Zuckerberg deep fake just weeks after Zuckerberg himself expounded on the importance of making that same type of content available on his platforms. The…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)TikTok is giving users a thumbs down.In a Wednesday announcement, the company revealed it’s testing out anew feature which will let users “dislike” comments they deem “irrelevant or inappropriate.” TikTok…

Image: Denis Charlet (Getty Images)A “massive ranking failure” in the Facebook News Feed promoted content it pegged as bad for the past six months. The flaw in the News Feed’s ranking algorithm elevated misinformation, violence, and the…