Japan designates four social media companies, including Pixiv, as targets of new regulations - sh.itjust.works

Tracking Suspicious Facebook Accounts After Takaichi’s Taiwan Remarks

Inauthentic Facebook accounts amplified anti-Japan narratives in Malaysian media after PM Takaichi’s Taiwan contingency remarks.

Social Media Ban Repository - Bart Preneel, KU Leuven | Social Media Ban Repository | Episode 3

Bart Preneel, professor of applied cryptography & privacy at KU Leuven, explains why age verification and age assurance measures aimed at restricting children’s access to online services may seem appealing but are ultimately fragile, easily bypassed, and risky for privacy and security. He argues...

It's Hard Out Here: FOSTA and its Impacts on OnlyFans and Online Sex Work | In Media Res

OnlyFans is marketed as a “peer-to-peer subscription app,” and became more widely used during the pandemic as many creators joined to supplement or replace lost income—the site reported a “75% uptick in model sign-ups in early April” (López). The platform benefits substantially from the rise in interest: OnlyFans is classed as a “digital patronage” platform, which provides for financial exchange for creative expression, with the platform taking a percentage (Bonifacio and Wohn). In the case of OnlyFans, the percentage is 20%, while other digital patronage platforms—Twitch.tv, YouTube, Patreon, and so forth—offer different terms for their users.

Inside OnlyFans’ Limited Venture Capital Options — And How VC Would Handle An OnlyFans 2.0

Did the pursuit of venture capital millions lead to a shocking pivot by OnlyFans? The creator platform surprised the online world on Thursday when it announced that it would ban sexually explicit content from its site starting in October after such content propelled the site to cultural relevance — and runaway sales growth — during the pandemic. […]

How a Chinese marketing network quietly injects political narratives into Taiwanese lifestyle content

A new investigation by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals how certain Facebook pages posing as lifestyle hubs for hobbies and health tips inject Beijing’s political narratives into their feeds to influence public opinion in Taiwan. These pages are tied to the China-based digital marketing company Wubianjie, which blends entertainment, disinformation and political messaging in cognitive warfare campaigns that are difficult to detect.

Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China (Published 2016)

The social network, blocked in China since 2009, has developed software to keep posts from appearing in users’ news feeds in specific geographic areas, current and former employees said.

1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco

Putting Social Media Back on the Internet

1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco

Putting Social Media Back on the Internet

1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco

Putting Social Media Back on the Internet

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...Building a movement away from toxic social media platforms, towards alternative open social media...

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization

The social media ecosystem appears to be in flux. Twitter’s rebranding to X has come to symbolize a broader reorganization of online publics – political reshuffling, user attrition, and uncertainty over the role of legacy platforms. Simultaneously, the shift from text-based, networked feeds toward algorithmically curated, short-form video has accelerated, with TikTok setting the pace for the wider ecosystem [18, 14, 16]. At the same time, everyday communication increasingly migrates from large, open networks to semi-private spaces such as group chats and messaging apps. Commentators describe a digital public sphere in transition: smaller, more fragmented, less dominated by traditional social networking sites, and rise of more broadcast-oriented forms of media – with some even suggesting that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the social media era.

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