Social: YouTube now forcing 5-10 ads at start of videos
YouTube has started showing as many as 10 unskippable ads in a single video for some users, as it appears to be testing new formats. Source: YouTube showing up to…
Finance: Meta (Facebook) shares have cratered
When your business is advertising and operating a frictionless platform for propaganda messaging it might be that even its network effect advantages are not sufficient to overcome the problems. Since…
How social media should handle “misinformation” content moderation
Currently, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube apply heavy handed censorship to user created content. Twitter, and Youtube, have both sanctioned, even shut down accounts – of professionally qualified individuals who express…
Twitter is out of control
Twitter is filled with posts all saying the same words suggesting a bot net attack: And then this, which I’ve put in text form for the search engines: I speak…
Follow up in fall of 2022: “Get Ready for the Forever Plague | The Tyee” – a wonderful work of fiction writing?
The theory espoused by the Tyee writer is disconnected from immunological science. He says: Public health officials’ COVID complacency has opened the door to new illnesses and devastating long-term damage.…
Image media more important than ever
You may have noticed that TikTok’s short videos have taken over the social media world. Youtube is doing #Shorts. IG is redesigning, they say, to give more emphasis to video.…
The Social Media Doc and Science Army has ruined our trust
I looked at Twitter again today. Nothing’s changed. What a sad swamp. Every day, there are “experts” name-calling and bashing other experts for having different perspectives, calling them incompetent, without…
I must have “Long Hepatitis”
Covid-19 has a side effect causing people to post long threads on Twitter about Long Covid. The thread roughly describes my situation – but I have Long Hepatitis, I guess.
TikTok to allow up to 10 minute long videos
It previously bumped up the time limit from 60 seconds to three minutes in July.. Source: TikTok is extending the maximum video length to 10 minutes | Engadget