YouTube's CEO Says Facebook Should 'Get Back to Baby Pictures'
For the sake of our fried and tortured brains, “baby pictures and sharing” doesn’t sound like such a terrible idea.
For the sake of our fried and tortured brains, “baby pictures and sharing” doesn’t sound like such a terrible idea.
The platform's changes in user growth reflect a longstanding cultural truth: what old people like isn’t cool.
When you get tired of looking at memes or what your friends had for lunch, social media can be used for productive things too.
The 2D images themselves look silly, but they’re proof of concept that AI can be trained to look past environmental noise and identify humans in complex scenes.
But only available in a limited number of post types.
Sharing this nightmare chain letter or even viewing its contents is a crime that could result in serious penalties up to and including felony charges.
A dating policy instituted by Facebook can be best boiled down to this: take a hint.
YouTube has struggled to police content on its platform, and it remains to be seen whether Facebook will be any better at it.
Zuckerberg would like everyone to know that the dip in time spent on Facebook is all part of the new plan.
The company's advertising policies now prohibit ads for "financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices".
“Raising children in our new digital age is difficult enough. We ask that you do not use Facebook’s enormous reach and influence to make it even harder."
It's better than nothing, right?
This means some friendly headlines for Facebook, but here’s something unsettling about how the company is treating regulation as absolution for its many privacy foibles.
Tips are a nice start, but Facebook have a long way to go before it can comfortably compete with more established streaming platforms.
Facebook’s publisher trustworthiness — the basis of a major overhaul to a company worth around $500 billion — consists of only two questions.
Are Facebook's motives benign, absurdly dystopian, or somewhere in between?
