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Telegram pulls paywalled posts from iOS app due to App Store rules
Telegram removed the ability for users on iOS to create pay-to-view posts due to Apple’s strict App Store guidelines (via 9to5Mac). In a post on Telegram, CEO Pavel Durov says creators on the platform have been using third-party payment or donation bots to sell access to certain posts on their channels, but that Apple was “not happy with content creators monetizing their efforts without paying a 30% tax to Apple.”
Apple doesn’t allow developers to use third-party payment processors in their apps and charges up to a 30 percent commission on any in-app purchases. As noted by 9to5Mac, Telegram initially appeared to have been testing a paid posts feature, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. However, Telegram said in a…
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Meta posts another revenue decline as investors voice metaverse concerns
Earlier this year, Meta posted its first quarterly revenue decline. Once again, Meta’s financials aren’t inspiring much faith in its investors this quarter. Meta’s revenue declined 4% year over year to hit $27.7 billion; but Meta CFO David Wehner pointed out on the earnings call today that some of this decline is owed to inflation. […]
Meta posts another revenue decline as investors voice metaverse concerns by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
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Soon you’ll be able to schedule posts on Instagram
Instagram is testing a new feature again. But this one actually seems pretty nice.
A spokesperson for Meta, the company that owns Instagram, confirmed to Mashable on Wednesday that it is “testing the ability to schedule content with a percentage of our global community.”
Creators can already schedule their Live videos up to 90 days in advance, but this new feature would allow anyone to schedule their grid posts ahead of time. The change was first spotted by a few users who had the option to try it out.
Here’s how it seems to work:
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Prepare a grid post.
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Once you’re at the final step — the one after you’ve finished editing, and can tag people, add a location, and other sharing options, scroll down to the bottom and click “advanced settings.”
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Here, you’ll have the option to “schedule this post.” You choose the date and time, and voila! You’ve scheduled a post.
As Meta said, not everyone has the option to schedule posts through the app just yet — the feature is still being tested. If you don’t have the option but do want to schedule your posts a few days out, there are plenty of other ways to schedule posts through third-party apps like Planoly, Buffer, and more.
Twitter and Instagram lock Kanye West’s accounts after a weekend of antisemitic posts
Kanye West’s return to Twitter has been short-lived. Less than a day after Elon Musk welcomed him back to the platform, the rapper saw his account suspended for posting an antisemitic message. On late Saturday night, West, who goes by Ye now, said he would go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.” In the same message, West defended himself, suggesting he wasn’t antisemitic because “black people are actually Jew.”
According to BuzzFeed News, it took some time before Twitter removed the hateful tweet. However, as of Sunday, it’s no longer possible to see the message on West’s timeline. “The account in question has been locked due to a violation of Twitter’s policies,” a company spokesperson told Engadget.
Twelve hours between these tweets. pic.twitter.com/N13Mrfth32
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 9, 2022
The suspension comes after West’s Instagram account was similarly restricted by Meta. In a post that has since been deleted, West shared a screenshot of a message he sent to Sean “Diddy” Combs where he implied the rapper was being controlled by a group of powerful Jewish people, reports NBC News.
The American Jewish Committee condemned the post and comments West made during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier in the week. “The behavior exhibited this week by Kanye West is deeply troubling, dangerous, and antisemitic, period,” the organization said on Twitter. “There is no excuse for his propagating of white supremacist slogans and classic antisemitism about Jewish power, especially with the platform he has.”
After his Instagram suspension, West took to Twitter to lash out at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. That post is still on the platform.
Trump’s Truth Social posts are proof Facebook shouldn’t lift his ban, says new report
Donald Trump’s social media megaphone may have gotten smaller but, according to a new report, his extremist rhetoric has arguably gotten louder than ever.
Facing bans from both Twitter and Facebook, the former president has resorted to posting solely on Truth Social, his own personal conservative social media platform. And in January 2023, Meta will decide whether or not the former president should be allowed to post again on Facebook, the world’s largest social network. A recent analysis by Media Matters, a non-profit progressive organization that tracks right-wing extremism, could factor into that decision.
“If [Trump] was doing these things on Facebook, he would be sanctioned,” said Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of Media Matters For America.
The behavior Carusone is referring to is detailed in the media watchdog’s latest report on Trump’s activity on Truth Social. In just a few months, social media giant Meta says it will decide whether to end Trump’s suspension and the company has specifically said it would look at Trump’s activity elsewhere — such as on Truth Social — when determining whether letting him back onto Facebook would continue to spread harm.
In an email response, a Meta spokesperson referred Mashable to Facebook’s original statement from June 2021 when it decided Trump would be suspended for a two-year period and would only be reinstated if “conditions permit.”
Using data based on Trump’s own Facebook policy-breaking rhetoric, Media Matters makes the case in its report that he should not be allowed back on the platform.
Trump’s Truth Social posts relating to QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory, are perhaps the former president’s most egregious. Facebook explicitly banned QAnon from its platform in 2020. QAnon followers believe that Donald Trump is still the President of the United States and that he is secretly waging a war against a global cabal of child trafficking, Satanic cannibals made up of Trump’s political enemies such as the Democratic Party and Hollywood elites. QAnon rhetoric has consistently become more extreme since Trump’s 2020 election loss and its beliefs have resulted in fatal consequences.
“When Trump was pushing QAnon on Facebook, it was incidental,” said Carusone. “In 2020, he sort of dabbled in it. It was a couple of degrees removed from QAnon. It was QAnon-adjacent. Now he’s fully embraced it.”
It isn’t only Media Matters saying this. Other extremism researchers, such as Jared Holt of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, have also noticed a recent embrace of QAnon from the former president. And there’s no denying the data either. Trump has increasingly posted or shared content from influencers or followers within the QAnon community on Truth Social. According to Media Matters’ report, Trump has “amplified at least 61 QAnon accounts more than 130 times” including a flurry of 22 QAnon posts on just two consecutive days in September.
Trump has only been active on Truth Social since May.
The report also found that Trump has repeatedly continued to spread falsehoods about the 2020 Presidential election. Media Matters says that Trump has mentioned the “rigged” election at least least 58 times on Truth Social.
“The Election was Rigged and Stolen,” wrote Trump in one post.
Carusone pointed to Trump’s recent post about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — a member of his own party — as an example of Trump’s increasingly violent rhetoric.
“He has a DEATH WISH,” posted Trump on Truth Social, accusing McConnell of working with Democrats. Carusone believes these posts should factor into Meta’s decision, based on the company’s own words.
“They’re saying, ‘Look, if there’s a possibility that this stuff…could lead to something in the real world, that’s what we’re going to factor into our analysis as to whether or not the threat has receded,'” he said. “And nobody thinks the threat has receded.”
Trump has been suspended on Facebook since 2021 as a result of his social media posts regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, where pro-Trump supporters attempted to force the overturn of the 2020 presidential election results.
In May 2021, Meta’s independent Oversight Board upheld Trump’s suspension but told the company that it must either ban him outright or provide a timeframe for the suspension. Meta decided to leave open the possibility that Trump could be back on the platform as soon as January 2023.
In a previous Media Matters report from Feb. 2021, right after Trump was suspended from Facebook, the organization found that “roughly a quarter” of Trump’s posts from 2020 to 2021 broke various platform policies regarding misinformation about COVID-19 and the election, or “extreme rhetoric” targeting his political enemies.
If Meta does decide to reinstate Trump’s account early next year, allowing the former president and his team to once again post to his 34 million Facebook followers, Carusone plans to escalate the issue with Meta directly.
“If they do restore his account, we’re going to appeal to the Oversight Board because they made it so clear in their own enforcement policy,” he said. “I don’t see any other way. If they don’t look at the totality of circumstances, then the only recourse at that point is to go right back to the Board and say, ‘Look, they set this policy and they didn’t even apply it.'”