Political Social Grab Bag – June 2024

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What am I thinking about?

It feels like we’ve talked about Threads and it’s premptive statement about news and politics on the platform ad nauseam. But now we have an opportunity to weigh in and maybe, just maybe, push towards real change, The Oversight Board has accept a case that on first glance doesn’t seem that exciting or important for us in the US except…the Board has said “The Board accepted this case to examine Meta’s content moderation policies and enforcement practices on political content on Threads…This is particularly important, in the context of Meta’s decision not to proactively recommend political content on Threads.”

So you know what to do right? Here’s the link to the comments portal for this case

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

What am I reading?

You came back to Threads. Here’s how it can keep you. – I would argue that what it needs is the ability to create lists …and it needs to stop pretending news isn’t a huge part of the conversations people are having on the platform…speaking of which

Time to Calm Down About AI and Politics –  Just read this one

ManChild’s Plan for AI News *- This is the kinda thing Threads needs to really fulfill its potential…the idea of this on Twitter 2024 is scary to me for all the reasons

Instagram Says Posting Longer Reels Can Hurt Your Performance – In other words, just because you can doesn’t mean you should- experiment as find what your audience prefers

Who’s actually using Threads? Young protesters in Taiwan –  Good examination of how social media, specifically Threads, is play a huge role in Tawian right now

*- I subbed in my nickname for the guy cause I don’t want to help him get the publicity he craves

New Tools of Interest

Maven – Oh look another Twitter wanna be…be warned that black background with red and white text is harsh on the eyes but the approach it takes to content discovery is interesting

Platform Updates

Meta Products (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, Messenger)

ICYMI: Instagram updated its algorithm to prioritize original content

Meta in general: New AI Disclosure rules and AI generated content labels

Threads: The API is being released this month! Hopefully this means analytics of some kind aren’t far behind

Threads: Quote controls have arrived as has the Recent Tab in Search

Threads: Also coming soon TweetDeck like columns...here’s a screenshot of mine

Fediverse (Bluesky, Mastodon etc)

Other Platforms

Snapchat: Coming soon- post sending message editing and more

Twitter: Some changes to the way blocking works

Twitter: Now launched- Stories but not the kind of stories we think of when we hear stories on social platforms…this is the AI summarized news tool mentioned in the What I’m reading section

TikTok: Coming soon 60 minute videos (don’t get me started)

Reddit: Some exciting changes to the management of and participation in AMAs

Winning the Internet

Barbie #FTW. the ultimate trendjack casestudy

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