Twitter is grasping for its piece of the booming podcast industry with an expansion of its Spaces audio conversation hub. The service will include algorithmic recommendations of podcasts that users might like. Spaces works best on the Twitter mobile app, so if you don’t use that, you’re pretty much out of luck.
A request was made by India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information for company executives to respond to public concerns.
You may have heard that podcasts occasionally include information that is not entirely accurate. Shocking but true! Google-backed research has found the “prebunking” with cartoon videos can help users recognize common misinformation techniques such as ad hominem attacks and false dichotomies. The researchers seem pleased to find a 5% improvement in ability recognize such techniques within 24 hours of viewing the education videos. Raise your hand if you think that’s enough to matter.
The past year has been tough for all kinds of tech investments. This LUMA report offers an overview of martech, adtech, and content tech financial activity in public markets, private financing, and mergers and acquisitions. To summarize a mixed picture: the bleeding has stopped but growth has not yet resumed.