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Because of Apple’s new data disclosure requirements, WhatsApp informed users last week that certain data points, such as the user’s profile status, login activity, contact list, purchases, and financial information, may be shared with businesses and the third parties they use. In 2018, Facebook launched “WhatsApp Business,” which allows us to chat with companies we know in order to ask support questions about orders, inventory, and in some cases make purchases directly through the app. As of summer 2019, 50 million businesses were using WhatsApp Business to communicate with their customers. Because companies pay for each message they send to users, WhatsApp Business has provided Facebook with a clear new revenue stream. … [Read more...] about WhatsApp and Facebook’s ultimatum to users reveals a privacy disaster

The Fancy is a great example of such an upstart. It has combined the commerce power of Amazon, the curated, social sharing model of Pinterest, and the visual-forward format of Tumblr. Founder Joe Einhorn is betting on the power of social sharing and sees a significant new segment of e-commerce where accidental discovery is as popular as deliberate search. Einhorn understands the significance of our visual society and the level of influence peers and aspiration groups have on our purchase decisions. He has created a company that plays homage to those human characteristics, and he’s betting that what Facebook did for people, Fancy will do for objects. … [Read more...] about What The Fancy Is Doing Right With Online Shopping

Just five months after introducing Stories, Instagram began testing ads within the feature—which, since they commandeer the entire screen, offer marketers the sort of undivided user attention they crave. “We love how Instagram tells stories—it’s 100% picture and video based,” says Emma May, senior director of marketing for Turner Sports, which is experimenting with the format to promote its basketball broadcasts. “What we do from an NBA on TNT standpoint fits really well within that medium.” According to a chart from a September 2016 Advertiser Perceptions report buried on page 114 of Snap’s IPO filing, Snapchat rates first among digital ad platforms in satisfaction, but it trails Instagram and Facebook when marketers were asked whether they planned to increase their ad spend. … [Read more...] about How Instagram Changed—Before It Had To

Then, in a brilliant interactive move, the zoo asked its social media fans to share their best screen shots of the baby panda on the zoo’s Flickr, so fans could feel like they were part of the process. Finally, and tragically, when the baby panda died, that was recorded on the panda cam, too, and explained on the zoo’s Twitter and Facebook. Social media provided a great resource for fans who wanted information, but it also provided them with connection and a place to share their grief. … [Read more...] about Social Animals: Behind The Community-Building Culture Of The National Zoo

Read more: How Wikipedia’s volunteers became the web’s best weapon against misinformation Like us, future historians will study the article to learn about what happened on January 6. And, as Slate‘s Stephen Harrison and others have previously pointed out, if they look at the behind-the-scenes debates over language, at these first (and second and third) drafts of history, they could also see how we processed the event in real time. The article’s Talk pages and edit histories could reveal things, says Keegan, “that are easily lost in historical accounts that pick up threads with the benefit of hindsight.” … [Read more...] about As a mob attacked the Capitol, Wikipedia struggled to find the right words