Meta kills CrowdTangle; Spotify jumps into online learning; Kim K. gets duped.
Finite Scroll #6
Okay, Finite Scroll fans, week six is here. Have fun clicking around and reading some links I saw this week that I couldn't get off my mind. ✨
You can read any/all of these today, over the weekend, or treat them as orphaned tabs you open in the background, only to come back to close in a few days. 🤳
- Meta kills a crucial transparency tool at the worst possible time.
- March Madness doesn't need stars — it makes them. And we're just getting started.
- Kim Kardashian, Design Co. sued over fake Donald Judd furniture.
- Midwest emo becomes a meme.
- New York moving companies go to war over tech secrets.
- Spotify is dabbling in online learning.
- Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal.
- The New York Times fails to include trans voices in majority of articles about trans issues.
- A poster for a fake 'Golden Girls' reboot has led to death threats for its creator.
- Judge tosses Elon Musk's X lawsuit against anti-hate group.
- A deepfake nude generator reveals a chilling look at its victims.
- Customer service company that worked with Disney, Comcast will pay $2M to workers to settle lawsuit over pay practices.
- Travel influencers promote hotels and brands. Are they worth it?
- Gen Z broke the marketing funnel.
- Bryan Stevenson reclaims the monument in the heart of the Deep South.
- What new terms like 'goblin mode' reveal about work.
- Senator, meet your new fierce lobbyist: your own TikTok-watching teen.
- How granfluencers are breaking stereotypes on TikTok.
- The growing antisemitism among young Americans.
- These professionals aren't retired, they just have zero to prove.
- Fewer people are using Elon Musk's X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts.
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