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9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered / #
So you heard TikTok’s being banned? That might not happen tomorrow, but here are the answers to the most urgent questions …

Why advertisers aren’t coming back to Twitter / #
Elon Musk is still the problem. There’s no getting around it. More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers before the acquisition have stopped advertising on the platform as of February, according to data from digital marketing analysis firm Pathmatics.

Elon Musk und das Gesetz: Twitter wird in Deutschland zur Black Box / #
Seit der Übernahme durch Elon Musk ist es für die Medienaufsichten schwieriger geworden, Twitters Einhaltung deutscher Gesetze zu überprüfen - oder überhaupt jemanden zu erreichen.

LinkedIn Launches New Native Post-Scheduling Feature As Company Pages Allowed To Follow Others On The App / #
LinkedIn is launching a new post-scheduling feature as the app also gives company pages the chance to follow others on the app.

Instagram Tests New Ads In Search Results To Reach Wider Audiences / #
Instagram has been forced to deal with poor demand on the advertising front.

TikTok Reassures Advertisers Over Ban Threat as Some Set Backup Plans / #
Advertisers take wait-and-see approach after Biden administration demands that video app’s Chinese owners sell stakes.

Meet the companies trying to keep up with ChatGPT / #
From Google’s Bard to Microsoft’s new Bing, here are all the major contenders in the AI chatbot space.

Why Countries Are Trying to Ban TikTok / #
Governments have expressed concerns that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, may endanger sensitive user data.

TikTok Announces Updated Community Guidelines, Including New Rules Around AI-Generated Content / #
TikTok's updated Community Guidelines look to address key pain points identified by US officials.

TikTok roles out new rules: bans deepfakes of nonpublic figures and climate misinformation / #
TikTok overhauls its community guidelines, adds new policies on AI and climate misinformation. TikTok says all realistic AI deepfakes must be ‘clearly disclosed.’
The app’s content policies are being updated as political pressure on Chinese parent company ByteDance grows.

Meta’s tracking technologies violates EU data protection law / #
Austria’s data protection authority has found that the use of Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law as personal data was transferred to the US where the information was at risk from government surveillance

Facebook political microtargeting at center of GDPR complaints in Germany / #
In its latest piece of strategic litigation, the precision-punching European privacy rights campaign group noyb has used data donated by users of the ‘Who Targets me‘ browser extension, which analyzes political microtargeting on Facebook, to build a case against every political party in Germany — for what it alleges is unlawful processing of voters’ personal data via Facebook’s adtech platform during the 2021 federal elections.

Twitter Looks to Add ID Verification to its Twitter Blue Sign-Up Process / #
Twitter's looking to add an extra layer of verification to the Twitter Blue process. ID verified profiles will receive an additional badge.

Elon Musk Sends Automated Poop Emoji To All Reporters Emailing Questions To Twitter / #
If you’re a reporter reaching out to Twitter’s PR department, you’ll now be greeted with an automated response in the form of a poop emoji.

Snapchat makes its content guidelines public / #
The app will begin publishing guidelines that detail what types of content gets algorithmically distributed to its users.

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