New studies claim that the absence of news content on Facebook has undermined political discourse on the platform.
'The ambient presence of journalism and true information in our feeds, the signals of reliability that were there, that's gone,' Taylor Owen, founding director of McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, says
Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall says he has seen a surge in clicks for his Canada Proud Facebook page. Our numbers are growing and we're reaching more and more people every day, said Ballingall, who publishes up to 10 posts a day and has some 540,000 followers. Media is just going to get more tribal and more niche, he added. This is just igniting it further. Canada has become ground...
Humza Yousaf has insisted he will not resign as First Minister as Labour launched an attempt to bring down the entire SNP government and force a Holyrood election.]]>
Meta updated its four-year-old manipulated media policy earlier this month
Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall says he has seen a surge in clicks for his Canada Proud Facebook page.
Meta shares crashed in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company warned profits will slip over the summer.
Rishi Sunak should focus on fixing the “broken” NHS and reducing waiting lists if he wants to get more people back into work, Sir Keir Starmer has argued. ]]>
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal visited Prachin Hanuman Mandir on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti. While returning from the temple, Sunita Kejriwal asserted that she would return soon with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo.“I will come back with Sir (Arvind Kejriwal) soon,” said Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal while leaving after offering prayers at Prachin Hanuman Mandir, Connaught Place.Since Arvind Kejriwal's arrest in the excise policy scam case,...
Skybridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci firmly believes that bitcoin will be both an inflation hedge and a store of value as the cryptocurrency scales. He emphasized that bitcoin is “still an early stage technical asset that will trade like other risk assets until it exceeds a billion users.” Scaramucci Doubles Down on Bitcoin as Inflation […]
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Britons enjoying a full English breakfast this morning have dismissed claims that the fry-up could be dying out because of health concerns among young people.