TikTok’s algorithm is ordinary. Its real innovation is something else.BY ARVIND NARAYANAN DECEMBER 15, 2022 ALGORITHMIC AMPLIFICATION AND SOCIETY A project studying algorithmic amplification and distortion, and exploring ways to minimize harmful amplifying or distorting effectsWhat made TikTok such a success? A commonly given reason is that the app’s advanced AI is really good at figuring out what
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2022 was a mixed year for Instagram, with the platform reaching a new milestone in monthly active users (2 billion), while also repeatedly copying TikTok and seemingly losing its own identity, at least to some degree, in the process. The biggest challenge for IG seems to be that it’s no longer a unique app. Its tools and features
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Economic uncertainty, social and political unrest, environmental catastrophe, and global health crises continue to impact people and businesses worldwide. Yet, amidst each of these disruptions, managers must maintain forward momentum to ensure their teams achieve success. This past year we’ve seen tech giants fall due to mismanagement, recklessness, economic turmoil, a lack of innovation, or
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Once considered a viable way to grow revenue, media companies are rethinking whether they want to be in the software licensing business. And for good reason. As we move into more challenging economic climates, media companies must think long and hard about business units outside their core focus. And we’re starting to see that play
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Reach’s Curiously is so far on Tiktok, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and Snapchat – but not its own site. Mirror, Express and regional news publisher Reach has increased its efforts to connect with younger audiences with the launch of a new social-first brand, Curiously. Aimed at 16 to 34-year-olds, Curiously is described as a “social content brand”.
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This story originally appeared in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge’s newsletter about the biggest events in audio. You can sign up here. It feels like 2022 was the year when podcasting came back to earth. After years of go-go growth, podcast hits going mainstream, major corporate investment, and hype about the market to come ($4 billion
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photo: Top: David Higgerson, M Scott Havens and Nick Hugh. Middle: Benjamin Cohen, Rachel Corp and Aja Whitaker-Moore. Bottom: Charles Yardley, William Lewis and Rebecca Miskin. News leaders answer the question: “What is the biggest challenge of 2023 and how will you tackle it?” By Charlotte Tobitt and William Turvill Press Gazette asked a host of UK and
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This is Part 1 of a two-part series that analyzes Twitter, a live case study that has provided salient lessons about power, control, politics and the future direction of community and the platforms that govern them. We’ve had a unique privilege to live through and consume the absurdity of Twitter in the latter part of
An Afghan journalist, in exile in Athens, Greece, stands on a terrace with her young daughter, 8 March 2022. Several Afghan women members of Parliament, along with activists and judges who escaped Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power of the country in August 2021, had been holding meetings in Athens to consolidate their network and
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Pakistan Press Foundation released a year-end report which noted that despite the change in government, “little improvement has been seen in the state of press freedom”. This statement was originally published on pakistanpressfoundation.org on 31 December 2022. In a country where the press routinely remains under threat and faces attacks from many fronts, the media in Pakistan
