Community Notes has sped up the process, working to help control disinformation on X. Bluesky is still complicated, but growing and securing more and more funding to stay in the game. Instagram upset a lot of creators by admitting that they throttle video quality depending on the idea views. Check out this week in social media news.
1. X speeds up the Community Notes process
X has been working hard to build credibility and control misinformation on the platform. They’re now boasting a sub-20-minute review process from the post going live to the completion of the review.
Speed matters. External research made possible by notes’ open source data has shown that notes reduce sharing of posts by ~60%, increase deletion of posts by ~80%, and are highly accurate. On top of that, notes are found helpful by people from different perspectives, and people from across the political spectrum find notes significantly more trustworthy than traditional misinformation flags.
2. Bluesky reaches 13 million users
Yes, Threads is the more obvious challenger to X at this point, but Bluesky refuses to go down without a fight.
It’s still got a long way to go, and Threads is still a long way ahead, at 200 million active users (and rising). But maybe, Bluesky does have more life in it than many expected, and it
will be able to bring decentralized social to a more mainstream
audience.:3. Instagram downgrading quality for lesser viewed clips
Adam Mosseri explained that Instagram downgrades the quality of less popular videos. Many creators are upset by the revelation, referring to the engagement bias as disheartening.
“We bias to higher quality (more CPU intensive encoding and more expensive storage for bigger files) for creators who drive more views,” he wrote Oct. 27. He added that the system isn’t set to “a binary threshold, but rather a sliding scale.”
