IMPORTANT TALK ALERT! @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social speaking at Penn State on November 6 about social media platforms and the creator economy!

Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards - Blake Hallinan, CJ Reynolds, Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief, Yehonatan Kuperberg, 2025 Platform governance is simultaneously a matter of public concern and a professional calling for Trust and Safety, the nascent field tasked with setting and enfo...

How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Media Objects 02: Containers While extensions are masculine coded and deal with tools that extend what human beings already do, containers offer a different and more feminine concept of media: something that selects, stores, and

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 2 // Containers //

with Brooke Erin Duffy, Jeremy Packer, and The World According to Sound / @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social

When Social Media Influencers Were Women | Opinion Influencing's third decade marks a gendered difference in digital entrepreneurship as the industry strays from its roots in fashion and style. As the industry transforms, will we remember a time when ...

new essay with @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social out in @newsweek.com this morning!

we examine the influencer industry's oft-overlooked gender politics and what this oversight means for the future of digital work.

www.newsweek.com/when-social-...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

My book was among those pirated and used by Meta to train AI. This is theft. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The YouTube videos that changed the way we think about ourselves As YouTube turns 20 years old, the platform's content has fundamentally altered the way we think and feel about each other, and ourselves.

Enjoyed this BBC piece featuring @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social and @jeanburgess.bsky.social reflecting on some of the most significant videos and channels from YouTube's first two decades: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The YouTube videos that changed the way we think about ourselves As YouTube turns 20 years old, the platform's content has fundamentally altered the way we think and feel about each other, and ourselves.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Just a few days until our #SXSW2025 panel on "The Creator Economy's Labor Revolution." Join us in Austin if you can! #creatorlabor

US laws on child entertainment labor have not caught up to family vlogging. Children deserve a place online, but they should be protected and respected by laws, platforms, and their parents.

Next month I’m honored to moderate this conversation to bring the issue to the federal stage

Ex-Meta employee sues the tech giant, alleging a 'toxic pattern of silencing women' A former employee at Meta filed a lawsuit against the company earlier this week. Kelly Stonelake alleges sex discrimination and harassment.

""I used to think the gap between Meta's public statements and the internal experience of working there was a bug or a misunderstanding to resolve," Stonelake told BI. tinyurl.com/35tn3wde

Unfortunately not for this one🙁

Caroline Kennedy calls cousin RFK Jr a predator ahead of confirmation hearing Scathing letter warns senators about danger her relative poses if elected as health secretary

Caroline Kennedy said her father, President John F Kennedy, and her uncle, former US attorney general Robert F Kennedy, would be “disgusted” by the actions of her cousin Robert F Kennedy Jr.

📣Just a few days left to get your submission in for the ICA pre-conference on "Debating Creator Culture":

Details here: www.ccsn.site/ica

Submissions close January 31

welcome, friend!

It’s Official: Twitter Has Shut Down Vine Twitter officially shut down Vine Tuesday, replacing the service's app with a pared-down camera app.

Eight years ago today Vine shut down leaving creators scrambling....how scarily prescient
variety.com/2017/digital...

CCSN The Content Creator Scholars Network

Now that ICA reviews are out, a reminder that we’re doing a nice big creator culture preconference where your work might fit. Deadline Jan 31 www.ccsn.site/ica

For Black Creators, TikTok Is More Than Just a Platform With the app set to shut down on Jan. 19, content creators risk losing a major source of income and community.

capitalbnews.org/tiktok-ban-b...

As promised, a reading list about Xiaohongshu is available now with the help of many Chinese social media researchers: qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi.... Special thanks to @carwynmorris.bsky.social for co-editing this. I am only hosting this on my personal website for logistic reasons.

thanks so much @askekammer.dk 😊

For creators, the TikTok ban would be a devastating blow. But it's not unprecedented. Yesterday in Forbes, I shared takeaways from interviews I've been doing with TikTokers since 2020 lnkd.in/gHf2pK3U

What is RedNote? The TikTok alternative that doesn't allow showing skin or LGBTQ+ content With heavy censorship of bodies and LGBTQ+ topics, RedNote might not be everything TikTok refugees are seeking.

I know that many folks are following along with the astonishing uptick in RedNote downloads (comm/creator studies researchers have been studying Xiaohongshu *for years*).

This news is worrisome:

www.advocate.com/news/what-is...

TikTok SCOTUS Live Blog: The Court Hears Arguments Over Potential Ban We're tuning in live as the justices consider what could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases of the past several decades.

I'm live blogging TikTok v Garland with @zeyiyang.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social this morning. We should be getting started in about 15 minutes.

You can follow along with us here:
www.wired.com/live/tiktok-...

Read Dave, who helped build Facebook’s first content policies, on why this week represents such a big step backwards: “The specific examples I called out above have been prohibited on the site since I wrote the first set of hate speech standards in 2009.”

How Meta’s New Hate Speech Rules Could Impact Creators And Audiences Meta’s content moderation overhaul is likely to impact creators and amplify the harms they face as platform laborers

My take on how Meta's content moderation overhaul could impact participants in the creator economy: www.forbes.com/sites/brooke...

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”

theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

How Big Tech sells the Influencer American Dream – Gina Neff in Forbes Professor Gina Neff's research on entrepreneurial labour and work identities is cited in a new article on how tech companies have recast social media labour as a form of monetisable leisure,

How does big tech sell the influencer American Dream?💰

@brookeerinduffy.bsky.social cites @ginasue.bsky.social's research on work identities and culture in her @forbes.com analysis of how tech uses narratives of glamour and purpose to turn leisure into content and grow the creator economy.

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Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one

Meta gets rid of fact checkers and says it will reduce ‘censorship’ | CNN Business In a number of sweeping changes that will significantly alter the way that posts, videos and other content are moderated online, Meta will adjust its content review policies on Facebook and Instagram,...

Meta has been signaling that it will withdraw from its fact-checking commitments. Today it announced that it will cancel support for fact-checking organizations.

The argument is something about free speech, but we know Zuck is seeking favor with Musk and Trump.

edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/t...

here's what the Supreme Court news could mean for the TikTok ban TikTok video by Drew Harwell

Just broke down the latest TikTok Supreme Court news and yes I am a shooting TikToks in the car guy now www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell...

Read @amarimow.bsky.social for more: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...