In A Policy Shift, Twitter Will Now Accept Cannabis Advertising
Yesterday, Twitter announced that it will now accept cannabis advertising on its platform. According to media reports, Twitter is first social media platform to do so.
MODAQ
Social media used to be free. Not anymore.
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media.
VOX
Building a social media app by yourself is tricky
Last year, Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter and promptly brought chaos to the company — laying off three-quarters of the staff and upending many long stable (if not always successful) parts of the business. So Twitter users began looking for a way out. Many migrated, even if only for a few days, to Mastodon, others moved to Instagram or Snap, and a lot of people declared Hive Social their new home.
THE VERGE
Supreme Court showdown for Google, Twitter and the social media world
In November 2015, ISIS terrorists carried out coordinated attacks across Paris, killing 130 people and injuring 400. Among the dead was Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old American studying abroad who was the first person in her large family to graduate from college. This week, lawyers for her family and others are in the Supreme Court challenging a law enacted more than a quarter century ago—a law that protects social media companies from what the families see as the role of internet companies in aiding and abetting terrorist attacks.
NPR