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After the pandemic forced Protocol to lay off nearly one-third of its workforce just two months into operations, its reporting at the intersection of technology and policy has since proven fruitful. The advertising-supported publisher saw its 2021 revenue grow 150% from its 2020 figures, though it declined to share specific numbers. Protocol plans to add…

Despite a constant stream of rhetoric asserting otherwise, a new study conducted by Twitter found that right-leaning news outlets see greater algorithmic amplification on its platform compared with left-leaning news outlets, and tweets posted by accounts from the political right receive more algorithmic amplification than the political left when studied as a group. The social…

Facebook expanded its test of reducing distribution of political content in News Feed to roughly 75 countries around the globe Wednesday. The test kicked off with “a small percentage” of people in Brazil, Canada and Indonesia in February, with the U.S. added shortly thereafter. Facebook expanded the test to Costa Rica, Ireland, Spain and Sweden…

It appears that Gettr didn’t quite satisfy former President Donald Trump’s thirst for a social media platform, as he filed a request for preliminary injunction against Twitter in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida last Friday, seeking the reinstatement of his @realDonaldTrump account. Twitter permanently banned Trump Jan. 8 in the…

Twitter rolled out its official hashtag-triggered emojis for the 2021 elections in the U.S., with Election Day set for Nov. 2. The social network shared the emojis in a @TwitterGov tweet, and the following hashtags will add them to tweets: #IVoted, #IVotedEarly and #YoVot?. The 2021 United States election season is right around the corner….

Snapchat added new options that allow users to change their advertising preferences in order to see fewer ads related to sensitive topics, like politics. If you want to see fewer “Political and Advocacy” ads on Snapchat, our guide will show you how to change this setting. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Snapchat application…

When Facebook introduced its Ad Library in May 2018, it heralded the archive of political ads and political issue content run by advertisers as a new era of transparency, making information public such as the campaign budget associated with the ad and how many people saw it, as well as their ages, locations and genders….

The majority of Americans who responded to a recent survey by Pew Research Center want to see the regulation hammer come down on “Big Tech.” In a survey of 4,623 U.S. adults conducted from April 12 through 18, Pew found that 56% of respondents believe major technology companies should be regulated more than they currently…

With former President Donald Trump permanently banned from Twitter since the days after January’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Trump’s team apparently decided to create its own version of Twitter. An application called Gettr quietly made its way onto the Google Play Store and iTunes App Store last month, with more than 1,000 downloads to…

A study of 25 popular Facebook pages focused on current affairs, conducted by think tank Pew Research Center, found then when it came to early assessments of the administration of President Joe Biden, posts from those pages were consistent with their self-identified ideological orientations. Pew used data from Facebook-owned public insights tool CrowdTangle to narrow…