#audience-voting

#audience-voting

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame held its first induction ceremony in 1986, honoring rock progenitors like Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Presley. This year, inductees include Oasis, Wu-Tang Clan, Phil Collins, and others.

"People are spending hours on the site. I didn't really expect it to be so addictive," said Mihir Maroju, the creator of Your AI Slop Bores Me.

The first episode challenges Shakespeare's vision of a villainous Richard III, while a future episode will consider the Ross and Rachel of early modern history, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Instagram's new feature allows users to edit comments after posting, but only within a 15-minute window. Users can edit text but not photos.

As the media landscape evolves, content creators are increasingly prioritizing audience ownership over algorithmic reach. Platforms driven by engagement algorithms - automated systems that determine what content users see based on factors such as past behavior, interests, interactions, and overall engagement - often dictate who actually receives a creator's posts. Since these algorithms constantly change and favor content that drives clicks, likes, and shares, it can be difficult for creators to maintain consistent, reliable relationships with their followers. This has fueled demand for tools that allow creators to communicate directly with fans and monetize engagement on their own terms.

Messages intended to suppress votes can be precisely delivered to particularly vulnerable and consequential groups of people via social media and keep millions of them from casting ballots, according to a new study that is the first to quantify the effect of this kind of microtargeting on voter turnout. A team led by a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recruited more than 10,000 people across the United States-a group representative of the country's voting population-to install an app that

Social platforms promised reach, scale and frictionless distribution. In exchange, publishers ceded control of audience relationships, data and, ultimately, trust. Today, that bargain is not working. Social media is imperfect. Feeds are flooded with bots, synthetic engagement, misinformation and bad actors operating under inconsistent or nonexistent moderation standards.