“We need each of you to write four trending stories daily. This will bring us closer to standards expected of daily writers across the industry, as well as help us offset the tragic loss of Stephanie,” The Root’s deputy editor Dustin Seibert wrote in a memo to staff. “If you are working on a slideshow, you are still only expected to provide two more trending stories that day.”

With fires raging across Los Angeles County, the fire-focused Watch Duty is again the No. 1 app in the country.

“Zuckerberg has been personally upset by Meta’s system. In November 2023, he posted a picture of himself after surgery to repair a knee ligament he tore doing his hobby, mixed martial-arts fighting … The post initially received anemic attention on Facebook as a result of an algorithm change that slowed the spread of viral health-related content.” Zuckerberg personally demanded a review of the rule and potential overreach in other safety measures.

“I now think what they were hoping to find with me, and why they sought me out initially, was because they thought I was somebody who’s going to be reasonable and side with them,” said Sweeney. “When they heard me say, well, you’re not covering this fairly, they went in a different direction.”

Reckon was part of Advance Local and owned by Advance, owners of Conde Nast. The Black Joy brand, newsletter, and two associated employees will be moved to New Jersey Advance Media.

“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product,” said Bruce Daisley, former head of Twitter’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

“There’s clearly fragmentation in the digital economy that is a result of these differing regulatory approaches.”

“The layoffs will affect employees across The Post’s business operations, not its newsroom … The bulk of the eliminated positions are coming from The Post’s advertising division. Johanna Mayer-Jones, The Post’s chief advertising officer, said in a memo to employees on Tuesday that 73 positions under her purview were being eliminated.”

“The company has now hired John Stoll, a former editor and Detroit bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal, to lead its news group and partnership team at X … [CEO Linda] Yaccarino didn’t go into detail about Stoll’s upcoming responsibilities at X, only that he was leading the news group and partnership team with a focus on expanding news on X at a global scale.”

“NewsMatch has historically operated as a year-end campaign, with grants made to match dollars raised in November and December, but this year INN began experimenting with other moments to activate donors.”

“Given all the attention given to content moderation, it’s easy to overstate its importance to the ecosystem. While moderation decisions make for high-profile congressional hearings and effective fodder for culture-war debates, what actually gets seen on social media platforms is still ultimately decided at the algorithm level, mostly outside the realm of political debate.”

“Sala, 29, a writer and podcaster, set out to document the shifting atmosphere. She interviewed a standup comedian, and she photographed women in cafes and on the streets who were not wearing head scarves, posting a selection of images on Instagram last month and describing them as ‘Tehran’s new faces and new streets.'”

“Meta has 8 years’ worth of data to prove that the fact-checking program was biased. Zuckerberg shared none. Instead, he chose to ignore research that shows that politically asymmetric interventions against misinformation can result from politically asymmetric sharing of misinformation.”