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• Europe quizzes TikTok on data safety, disinformation and DSA compliance / #

  TikTok is under increasing political pressure in the US and Europe, especially on the issues of security and privacy. TechCrunch gives an overview of what was discussed.

• GPT-4: Facts, Rumors and Expectations about next-gen AI model / #

  The recent ChatGPT is version 3,5 which for the first time brought an easy to use A.I. tool to people. The next version - expected to be launched during this year - will be 100x more powerful than GPT-3. A technical Deep dive into what we can expect.

• TikTok Ads are up to 50 % cheaper than Reels ads: Entertainment platform undercuts social competition with low prices / #

  ByteDance offers cheaper rates for advertisements than other social platforms such as Instagram or Snaptchat, according to research by the Financial Times.

• Influencer Marketing Tools: 19 Lösungen im Vergleich / #

• Threema riddled with vulnerabilities? / #

  The messenger comes with unusually strong claims which crumble under new research findings.

• Analyse: Instagram Reichweiten sinken für alle Formate, auch für Reels. / #

  Welche Instagram Post-Formate erzielen durchschnittlich die höchsten Reichweiten?

• TikTok on the Clock / #

  What happens to the creator economy if the world’s most important new social platform is banned in the United States? We may be about to find out.

• Twitter, Facebook, Instagram help fuel anger over Bolsanaro's defeat / #

  Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter were used to boost election fraud claims in Brazil before riots hit Congress and government buildings.
  Researchers detected a surge in aggressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday’s rioting.

• Instagram is removing the Shop tab in the app / #

  Starting in February, Instagram brings back the Compose button (the plus sign “+”) to the front-and-center of the navigation bar at the bottom of the app and it will remove the Shop tab entirely. Also the Reels-tab will be moved.

• Here's what you need to know about the updates to the YouTube Partner Program in 2023 / #

  Youtube’s updates include Shorts ads revenue sharing.

• Forrester: Brands Shouldn’t Bail on Twitter Altogether / #

  The research firm suggests treating the beleaguered platform like an emerging channel.

• French government plans Code of Conduct for influencers / #

  French public has the chance to provide feedback on possible rules via a website until end of January. New rules should then include rights and obligations of influencers as well as consumer protection rules.

• LinkedIn is having a moment thanks to a wave of layoffs in 2022 - App-growth up to 58.4M worldwide / #

  LinkedIn app downloads are up 10% from the prior year. Most interestingly, the number of LinkedIn posts mentioning “open to work” were up 22% during November vs. previous year.

• What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley / #

  Novelist Ning Ken’s history of Beijing’s Zhongguancun district shows how two generations of professors and tech entrepreneurs helped make the country more open.

• 70% of unregulated exchange transactions are wash trading / #

  Study found that in some exchanges, the wash trading volume can go as high as 80%

• Ant Group founder Jack Ma to give up control in key revamp / #

  The step is thought to draw a line under a regulatory crackdown that was triggered soon after its mammoth stock market debut was scuppered two years ago.

• Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but the platform has a problem to hold them all / #

  Active users on the Mastodon social network has dropped more than 30% since the peak and is continuing a slow decline - but still, the network is strong. The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023.

• If You Think No One Downloads Facebook Anymore, Think Again Because You Are Wrong / #

  Of the 500 million devices in 2022 the Facebook app got downloaded for the first time, 136M were recorded in India, as per AppFigures data. This is followed by Indonesia, the USA, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Egypt. These countries make 70% of Facebooks new downloads in 2022.

• Why India banned TikTok and what the US can learn, as pressure mounts for Biden to follow suit / #

  To see what could happen if the US were to ban TikTok, analysts say to look at India, where Meta, YouTube, and Snapchat were able to flourish after the Chinese app was banned by New Delhi.

• EU Firms Were Fined Over $3 Billion For Violating Data Protection And Privacy Laws And Meta Paid 80% Of It / #

  A new report is shedding light on a massive array of companies in the EU being fined huge sums in the past three years.

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