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12/11/23: Cynopsis Media Tech Update

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  Monday December 11, 2023 Elon Musk restored the X account of Alex Jones, the right wing extremist on the hook for over $1 billion for saying the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax. On Saturday, Musk posted a poll on his account asking if Jones should be reinstated. About 70% of nearly two […]

12/04/23: Cynopsis Media Tech Update

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  Monday December 4, 2023 Add Walmart to the of companies that have stopped advertising on X/Twitter. “We aren’t advertising on X as we’ve found other platforms to better reach our customers,” a spokeswoman for the largest retailer in the country told Bloomberg News. The decision comes after X owner Elon Musk’s remarks during the […]

11/20/23: Cynopsis Media Tech Update

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  Monday November 20, 2023 It was a wild weekend for OpenAI. The company’s board fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday; OpenAI’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman quit in solidarity, and three senior researchers followed suit. On Saturday, reports surfaced saying the board had been pressured into reconsidering its decision by investors like Microsoft, and […]

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11/13/23: Cynopsis Media Tech Update

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  Monday November 13, 2023 Meta unveiled a new feature allowing users to link their Facebook and Instagram accounts to Amazon so they can more easily make purchases by clicking on promotions in their feeds. “For the first time, customers will be able to shop Amazon’s Facebook and Instagram ads and check out with Amazon […]

11/06/23: Cynopsis Media Tech Update

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  Monday November 6, 2023 IAB Tech Lab, has introduced the Data Deletion Request Framework as an addition to the Global Privacy Platform. “The ‘Right to Delete’ is a Data Subject Right (DSR) currently protected by the GDPR, 12 US state privacy laws, and additional privacy legislation, including Quebec Law 25,” said Jared Moscow, Director […]

10/23/23: Media Tech Update

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Monday October 23, 2023 Seventy-four percent of X’s most viral pushers of misinformation about the Israel/Hamas conflict during the war’s first week were verified blue check mark accounts, according to a report from NewsGuard. “Collectively, posts advancing these myths received 1,349,979 engagements and were cumulatively viewed by more than 100 million times globally in just […]

10/16/23: Cynopsis Media Tech Update

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Monday October 16, 2023 Google is making passkeys the default authentication method for Google account holders. “This means, next time you sign in to your Google Account, you’ll start seeing prompts to create and use passkeys, simplifying your future sign-ins,” said Google product managers Christiaan Brand and Sriram Karra. “Our goal is the same as […]

10/09/23: Cynopsis Media Tech Update

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Monday October 9, 2023 At Google’s Pixel Event 2023, the company unveiled Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, the latest versions of its smartphone technology. New features in the phones camera include Magic Editor, enabling background filling and subject repositioning, and Best Take, which allows the combination of multiple shots to create the best group […]

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