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In 2024, Meta announced a new policy in which it would begin labeling AI content on its platforms when content moder 0.900

👤 Meta 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , AI , Social Media , Policy

Simplified: Meta announced a new policy to label AI content on its platforms in 2024.

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Louis Barclay, a software developer and current fellow at the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation who was banned from Facebook and Instagram for creating a digital tool that allowed users to delete their new... 0.800

👤 Louis Barclay 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , Social Media

Simplified: Louis Barclay believes the content mix on Facebook and Instagram is rapidly devolving.

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While no credible study has yet definitively determined the percentage of Facebook content that’s now AI-generated, plenty of outlets have reported on a surge in these kinds of posts. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , AI , Social Media

Simplified: No study has determined the percentage of AI-generated Facebook content but outlets report a surge.

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In 2024, then-Stanford University misinformation researcher Renée Diresta and Josh Goldstein, a fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, noted in a Harvard Kenned... 0.900

👤 Renée Diresta and Josh Goldstein 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , AI , Social Media

Simplified: Images from AI models are used by spammers on Facebook achieving viral engagement according to Renée Diresta and Josh Goldstein in 2024.

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Since OpenAI debuted its first ChatGPT model in November 2022, AI content has bloomed like verdant algae across Facebook, blanketing feeds in prodigal children, preternatural vistas and discomfiting r... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , AI , Social Media

Simplified: AI content has bloomed across Facebook since OpenAI debuted ChatGPT in November 2022.

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The American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life declared in a newsletter earlier this year, “Social media has become a place of rapid and repeated consumption rather than one foster... 0.900

👤 The American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , Social Media

Simplified: Social media has become a place of rapid consumption not dynamic engagement according to the American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American...

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Although Meta’s properties and their competitors are still occasionally called ‘social networks,’ the 2020s have seen the socializing dimension of these platforms gradually wither away. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , Social Media

Simplified: The socializing dimension of Meta's properties and competitors has withered away in the 2020s.

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As Hall and other researchers have pointed out in recent years, users’ experiences on Facebook, X and Instagram are far less interactive and participatory than they were a decade ago. 0.900

👤 Hall and other researchers 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , Social Media

Simplified: User experiences on Facebook X and Instagram are less interactive than a decade ago according to Hall and other researchers.

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If the aughts were a period of exuberance and sanguinity about the potential paths of the internet — when social networks were seen as fertile ground for virtual communities and the democratization of... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Historical

Simplified: The 2000s were optimistic about the internet the 2020s are disillusioned.

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One source I spoke with casually mentioned having “five versions of TikTok” on his smartphone. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Blog Post 🏷️ Technology , Social Media

Simplified: A source had five versions of TikTok on his smartphone.

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The CEO told the court that Facebook, Meta’s flagship platform, had recently drifted more toward “the general idea of entertainment.” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media

Simplified: Meta CEO told court Facebook had recently drifted more toward entertainment.

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In a 2022 academic paper on social media use, University of Kansas researcher Jeffrey Hall described the ways in which social media apps like Facebook, X and Instagram were no longer as interested in... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Opinion

Simplified: 2022 Jeffrey Hall paper: Social media apps like Facebook X Instagram are no longer as interested in facilitating personal relationships.

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While these sites have been constantly evolving ever since Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard University classmates first launched “TheFacebook” in February 2004, there has been a striking change in thei... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , History

Simplified: Social media sites have evolved since Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook in February 2004. There has been a striking change in makeup content and us...

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Facebook, Zuckerberg wrote, “was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected.” 0.900

👤 Zuckerberg 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , History

Simplified: Zuckerberg wrote Facebook was built to make the world more open and connected.

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Meanwhile, a 2020 Pew study found that nearly two-thirds of American adults felt that social media platforms were having an adverse effect on the country. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Statistics , Opinion

Simplified: 2020 Pew study: Nearly two-thirds of American adults felt social media platforms were having an adverse effect.

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In an August 2024 Harris poll, nearly 60% of Gen Z respondents felt social media has had a negative impact on their generation as a whole, and around half of those polled wished that TikTok, X (former... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Statistics , Opinion

Simplified: August 2024 Harris poll: Nearly 60% of Gen Z felt social media has had a negative impact. Half wished TikTok X Snapchat had never been invented.

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Researchers have determined that excessive social media use is linked to depression, anxiety, concerns about body image and other forms of mental distress. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Health

Simplified: Excessive social media use is linked to depression anxiety concerns about body image and mental distress.

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These figures have been trending higher, too, with recent research suggesting that the amount of time people from all age groups spend on these sites has increased more than 50% since 2013 — jumping f... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Statistics

Simplified: Time spent on social media increased over 50% since 2013 from 90 minutes daily in 2013 to around 145 minutes in 2024.

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While the prisoners in Plato’s cave believed the shadows flickering across the cave wall were the one and only empirical reality, today’s social media users still know otherwise. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Piece 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Society

Simplified: Social media users know the difference between online and offline reality.

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Our 21st-century civilization is increasingly absorbed by a growing clutch of social media platforms and the technological devices that serve as their vessels; a significant proportion of the human ra... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Opinion Piece 🏷️ Technology , Social Media , Society

Simplified: 21st-century civilization is increasingly absorbed by social media.

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