Facebook's News Content Blocking Negatively Affects Political Discourse, Claims New Studies

New studies claim that the absence of news content on Facebook has undermined political discourse on the platform. Read More

Actions needed beyond lawsuit to address social media's influence on youth, say experts

While four Ontario school boards recently announced a $4.5-billion lawsuit against the social media giants behind Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, Brock University experts are calling for ... Read More

Analysis-When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow

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 ... Read More

Facebook shuts news tab after Meta vows to stop paying Australian publishers for content

Meta says it will take a number of days for news tab to be fully removed in Australia and the United States Facebook has closed down its news tab as its parent company, Meta, follows through with ... Read More

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Trump bubble: How Trump's social media company is worth so much more than its business justifies

Donald Trump's Truth Social company has just a tiny fraction of the number of users of other social media companies and lost millions of dollars before going public spiked its market value. Read More

Facebook wrecked this Kansas news outlet’s account. It’s hard to trust social media | Opinion

Facebook organized the confusing, wide-open internet and put its best features all in one place — keeping up with ... of the news organizations you value. Cut out the social media middleman. Read More

What would Facebook look like without any news?

“It really isn’t a mainstream social media ... news makes up less than 3 per cent of content on its users’ news feeds – a statistic disputed by publishers – and that as a content type on ... Read More

Crypto Social Media Firm Merkle Gets Unicorn Valuation in Paradigm Deal

A developer of software for decentralized social-media networks founded by two former Coinbase Global Inc. executives is close to completing a funding round valuing it at about $1 billion ... Read More

Social media giant Facebook shuts news tab in Australia

Social media giant Facebook has shut its news tab in Australia as of Tuesday ... sees the many benefits our free services provide to publishers and we’ll continue to engage with them on this ... Read More

Social Networking

The term "social network" refers both to a person's connections to other people in the real world and to a platform that supports online communication, such as Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. Read More

Boeing Leadership Shake-Up Has Deal Out; Calhoun Set To Retire

Boeing Leadership Shake-Up Has Deal Out; Calhoun Set To Retire is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with ... Read More