Free Press is an activist organization dedicated to individual and press freedoms, so you won’t be surprised that they’re highly critical of how social media platforms are handling misinformation.   Still, this study provides a good overview of the many ways those platforms have failed to act responsibly in the past year.  They offer suggestions for how the platforms and government can make things better, although the chances for adoption are slim.

Composability plays a starring role in Scott Brinker and Frans Riemersma’s latest analysis of the martech universe.   While other observers regularly predict a consolidation that still hasn’t come, Brinker and Riemersma remain bullish on industry growth.  This report from digital analytics vendor Heap supports their view: 40% of respondents are using more tools in their tech stack this year while just 22% are using fewer.  Budgets are up at 32% and down at just 16%.

Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.