Samuel Corum / Getty Images Last week, the Senate Commerce Committee advanced the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bipartisan bill that lawmakers say is intended to stop online platforms from targeting and recommending harmful content to minors. On paper, the bill sounds like a necessary pushback against big tech platforms like Facebook and TikTok,…
Nearly two years after the layoffs across X’s trust, safety and security teams, Elon Musk’s social media company is now trying to hire new employees to help moderate content and secure its platform, according to X’s official job listings. In the last month, X posted two dozen job openings evenly split across its safety and…
This post is based on a recent Redefining Work podcast with Lars Schmidt and NASA’s April Jordan. You can listen to the full episode here. NASA is pretty clear about the allure of a diverse workforce. Their take: Diversity drives innovation — some bold words for an agency that’s about as innovative as they come. …
The cheerful and much-loved TikTok chef Lynn Yamada Davis, known for her funny and helpful cooking videos “Cooking with Lynja,” passed away at 67. Davis’s son shared the sad news on social media, saying her last moments were calm and surrounded by loved ones. A journey of joy and resilience Davis’ daughter, Hannah Mariko Shofet,…
Meta has launched an updated WhatsApp desktop app for Mac users, which incorporates most of the same updates of the refreshed WhatsApp Windows app, which it re-launched in August last year. The main addition to the WhatsApp for Mac app is expanded group video calling, with users now able to make calls with up to…
X, formerly known as Twitter, is introducing two new tiers for its subscription offering in order to bring in additional revenue. The social media giant is adding a new Premium+ tier that costs $16 per month and offers the “largest reply boost” and removes ads from the For You and Following feeds. The tier also…
Introduction: Exploring the power of Twitter activism Twitter has become a global platform for not only sharing thoughts and memes but also for sparking social change. From viral hashtags to trending campaigns, the power of Twitter activism has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in today’s digital age. This article delves into the…
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Launching later this month, individual YouTube channels will start showing a new “For You” tab which recommends videos on a channel for viewers based on their watch history. Announced on YouTube’s official Twitter/X account today, the “For You” row on YouTube channels will leverage the already-powerful recommendation engine of YouTube and keep the focus on…
Figure 1 – Example of an Embeddings Graph Embedding based retrieval (EBR) is a method that is used at the early stages of a recommendation or search system. It efficiently searches among a very large set of possible items (such as jobs or feed posts), returning items that are relevant to the request based on…
Authors: Ryan Rogers, Subbu Subramaniam, Lin Xu Contributors: Mark Cesar, Praveen Chaganlal, Xinlin Zhou, Jefferson Lai, Jennifer Li, Stephanie Chung, Margaret Taormina, Gavin Uathavikul, Laura Chen, Rahul Tandra, Siyao Sun, Vinyas Maddi, Shuai Zhang Content creators post on LinkedIn with the goal of reaching and engaging specific audiences. Post analytics helps creators measure their post performance…
YouTube announced earlier this week that a new test on Android devices will let users search for songs simply by humming the tune of the song. Rolling out now to a “small percentage” of YouTube users on Android devices, this new search option for songs can identify a track based on three or more seconds…
YouTube is cutting jobs on the business side of the house, according to a person familiar with the matter. The news was announced internally on Wednesday by chief business officer Mary Ellen Coe, who oversees thousands of people working in areas like business operations, partnerships, and advertising. When reached for comment, YouTube spokesperson Andrea Faville…