This isn’t a place for political news but we can’t pretend yesterday was normal. So let’s talk about the social media sites that drive so much violence. We’ll start with a report that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter put a brief restriction the President’s riot-stoking messages. It’s like keeping your teenager home from soccer practice for one day because she murdered Granny.
It’s also not news that the gaming industry has done well during the pandemic or that Roblox is one of the biggest winners. But the message here is that Roblox is about community building, not just games. Oh, and they just raised a $520 million Series H, bringing total funding to $855 million ahead of a planned public offering.
Taking a somewhat longer view, a recent study found that humans, not bots, have been the most important source of Covid-related misinformation. One individual was by far the biggest problem. Guess who?
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.