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The Future. WSJ found that ads from brands like Disney, Walmart, Pizza Hut, Bumble, and even WhatsApp itself were served in between videos portraying child sexualization and adult film content on Reels… and users would see this content by simply following youth-oriented accounts. The test shows that the race to catch up with TikTok (and […]
The Future. Meta is pushing for WhatsApp to come out of Facebook and Instagram’s shadows to potentially become the future core app of the company. Although it faces competition from iMessage, Signal, and Telegram, WhatsApp could distinguish itself by becoming the go-to app for the social-media-to-private-community-messaging shakeup — making WhatsApp the Facebook of the 2020s. […]
Meta open sources its AI
Creators fly the coop
Instagram launches a Twitter competitor
The app may be called “Threads."
The combination of Apple’s 2021 data privacy changes and the recent economic contraction has reduced digital ad spending and hurt social media platforms.
Once creators identified TikTok as a platform on which they could go viral, build huge followings, and land ad sponsorships more easily than on Instagram, they began to divert their attention away from the Meta-owned app.
Meta is looking for ways to finally start making some real money from WhatsApp.
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