Everybody has those days: ICYMI, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads were down yesterday. The major outage affected 500K+ users and lasted more than four hours. Meta is back up and running, but you can always check the status here.
Discourse on Florida and Texas social media laws continues: The government can’t regulate speech on social media platforms…or can it? This meaty opinion piece, which argues social media companies are not the same as public utilities, explores whether content moderation should be left to social media companies or the government.
LinkedIn’s suggested posts are a marketing WIN: A new LinkedIn algorithm update will show your best posts to targeted users for months, or even years. In this LinkedIn newsletter, Tim Jurka—who coins himself as the Bearer of Good News at LinkedIn—writes, “We want to match people to the best content for them and what they need at that moment…One way we’re doing this is through testing suggested posts – content served to a member that is personalized based on their professional identity, actions, and goals on the platform. The benefit of this is that professionals who come to LinkedIn will see content that is fresh, insightful, and richly contextualized.”
