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YouTube terminates more than 400 channels over child exploitation controversy
Tech2 News Staff •This comes as a response to the concerns that have been raised by creators, users and advertisers.
Storytelling for Gen Z: How Yuvaa is centering conversations, content on identity and mental health
Anuprabhakar •The objective behind Yuvaa is to empower children by getting them to speak up about identity and mental health-related issues, which they are otherwise not prompted to do
Facebook reported for not protecting content reviewers from mental trauma
•Facebook in the past has said all of its content reviewers have access to mental health resources
YouTube to offer cash to top creators if they use and promote new features
Tech2 News Staff •YouTube really wants to prove to its creators that it’s more than just an advertising business.
Instagram to launch a video hub for content creators for hour long videos: Report
Tech2 News Staff •The long-form videos can range from 15 seconds to 60 minutes and may be a part of the explore tab.
Comcast and Disney on verge of bidding war for Fox entertainment properties as competition with Amazon, Netflix intensifies
•The potential battle for Twenty-First Century Fox comes as traditional entertainment companies try to amass more properties to compete better with technology companies such as Amazon and Netflix for viewers' attention — and dollars.
MIT study finds false stories on Twitter travel way faster than the truth
•The scientists calculated that the average false story takes about 10 hours to reach 1,500 Twitter users, versus about 60 hours for the truth. On average, false information reaches 35 percent more people than true news.
The Economist 'likes' Facebook groups to friend larger US audience
Nikhila Natrajan •Reaching the community rather than simply delivering a product is fast becoming the gold standard of news marketing. Bucking the so-called trends on social media content can indeed lead to increase in reader traffic and from there onto revenue gains. A more detailed Q and A with the moderator of the The Economist FB group Democracy in America is at the end of this piece.
Twitter rolls out new features allowing users to mute notifications from unknown accounts
Fp Archives •Twitter Inc, in its latest step to curb abusive behaviour on its platform, rolled out new features on Monday to help users disable notifications from accounts that they want to avoid.
Facebook is planning to crackdown on clickbait websites filled with annoying advertisements
Fp Archives •Facebook is planning to intensify its crackdown on so-called clickbait websites, saying it will begin giving lower prominence to links that lead to pages full of deceptive or annoying advertisements.
