Casey Newton / Platformer:
Source: Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox directed the New Product Experimentation division to scale back and focus entirely on short-form video innovation — Facebook’s New Product Experimentation division is scaling back its mission dramatically, Platformer has learned.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Twitter’s newsletter platform Revue, acquired in early 2021, is scheduled to close by the end of the year, and its Notes product has been paused — A new Vine camera is in. Notes and Revue are out — With massive layoffs expected to hit Twitter tomorrow, on Thursday employees once again endured …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
TikTok and ByteDance’s links to China mean wrongdoing will be punished more harshly in the US than Meta and Twitter, no matter how “transparent” the company is — In new testimony to Congress, the company faces stern questions on China — Ever since TikTok became …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at a doc from Twitter’s trust and safety team on Nov. 1 that detailed how the new Blue subscription could be abused, largely ignored in a rush to launch — Employees and advertisers keep warning him about the risks of changes he’s making to Twitter — but he’s not listening
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Meta is testing letting average users inform its speech policies, which started with a pilot from February-April 2022 on “problematic” climate info on Facebook — What if platform policies were written in part by their users? — In June, I wrote that to build trust, platforms should try a little more democracy.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A Twitter HQ seating chart shows Elon Musk’s top five special projects: Blue verified, Blue for business, encrypted DMs, tips on tweets, and longform notes — After demanding the remaining Twitter employees pledge their loyalty, Musk’s product priorities are coming into focus — I. Extremely hardcore
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Musk has pitched charging most or all users a subscription fee to use Twitter; internal estimates show the new Blue could actually lose Twitter money — Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
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