Kurt Wagner

San Francisco

Covering social media, Facebook + X/Twitter for Bloomberg @Business. Author of “Battle for the Bird.” DMs are open. Go Seahawks. Go M’s. Signal: kurtwagner.08

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TikTok adds community notes feature to combat misinformation

6 days ago | seattletimes.com | Kurt Wagner

TikTok is testing a new “community notes”-style feature, called Footnotes, to add more context to posts that may be misleading or inaccurate. Footnotes will appear alongside videos on the app to “add helpful details that may be missing,” according to a company blog post. Those additional details are crowd-sourced from the app’s user base.
Meta saw TikTok as 'highly urgent' threat, Zuckerberg says at antitrust trial

1 week ago | gazettextra.com | Joshua Sisco |Kurt Wagner

Mark Zuckerberg said that ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok posed a "highly urgent" competitive threat to Meta Platforms Inc. when it first sprang up in 2018, as he testified for a third day in the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust trial. "We observed that our growth slowed down dramatically," as TikTok gained popularity, the Meta chief executive officer said Wednesday. "It was highly urgent, this has been a top priority for the company for several years."Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.
Sandberg Challenged Over Meta Business Moves During FTC Trial

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Joshua Sisco |Kurt Wagner

Sheryl Sandberg in 2019. (Bloomberg) -- Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Meta Platforms Inc., faced sharp questioning from the US Federal Trade Commission as its second witness in a trial to break up the social media giant. Sandberg, who left Meta in 2022 after more than 14 years as Mark Zuckerberg’s No. 2, was Meta’s senior-most business leader at the time the company acquired both Instagram and WhatsApp, giving her key insight into its strategy.
Sandberg Challenged Over Meta Business Moves During FTC Trial

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Joshua Sisco |Kurt Wagner

Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Meta Platforms Inc., faced sharp questioning from the US Federal Trade Commission as its second witness in a trial to break up the social media giant. Sandberg, who left Meta in 2022 after more than 14 years as Mark Zuckerberg’s No. 2, was Meta’s senior-most business leader at the time the company acquired both Instagram and WhatsApp, giving her key insight into its strategy.
Sandberg Challenged Over Meta Business Moves During FTC Trial

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Joshua Sisco |Kurt Wagner

Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Meta Platforms Inc., faced sharp questioning from the US Federal Trade Commission as its second witness in a trial to break up the social media giant. Sandberg, who left Meta in 2022 after more than 14 years as Mark Zuckerberg’s No. 2, was Meta’s senior-most business leader at the time the company acquired both Instagram and WhatsApp, giving her key insight into its strategy.
Sandberg Challenged Over Meta Business Moves During FTC Trial

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Joshua Sisco |Kurt Wagner

Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Meta Platforms Inc., faced sharp questioning from the US Federal Trade Commission as its second witness in a trial to break up the social media giant. Sandberg, who left Meta in 2022 after more than 14 years as Mark Zuckerberg’s No. 2, was Meta’s senior-most business leader at the time the company acquired both Instagram and WhatsApp, giving her key insight into its strategy.
Meta saw TikTok as ‘highly urgent’ threat, Zuckerberg says at antitrust trial

1 week ago | thederrick.com | Joshua Sisco |Kurt Wagner |Kurt Wagner

Mark Zuckerberg said that ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok posed a “highly urgent” competitive threat to Meta Platforms Inc. when it first sprang up in 2018, as he testified for a third day in the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading. Get complete access for 24 hours to all of the content on our site, including breaking news, e-editions, archives (2010 to current) and special sections.
Meta saw TikTok as 'highly urgent' threat, Zuckerberg says at antitrust trial

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Joshua Sisco |Kurt Wagner

Mark Zuckerberg said that ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok posed a "highly urgent" competitive threat to Meta Platforms Inc. when it first sprang up in 2018, as he testified for a third day in the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust trial. "We observed that our growth slowed down dramatically," as TikTok gained popularity, the Meta chief executive officer said Wednesday. "It was highly urgent, this has been a top priority for the company for several years."
Meta saw TikTok as ‘highly urgent’ threat, Zuckerberg says at antitrust trial

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Joshua Sisco |Kurt Wagner

Mark Zuckerberg said that ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok posed a “highly urgent” competitive threat to Meta Platforms Inc. when it first sprang up in 2018, as he testified for a third day in the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial. “We observed that our growth slowed down dramatically,” as TikTok gained popularity, the Meta chief executive officer said Wednesday.
TikTok Adds Community Notes Feature to Combat Misinformation

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Kurt Wagner

The app, which is owned by Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., remains in flux as it faces a potential US ban. (Bloomberg) -- TikTok is testing a new “community notes”-style feature, called Footnotes, to add more context to posts that may be misleading or inaccurate. Footnotes will appear alongside videos on the app to “add helpful details that may be missing,” according to a company blog post. Those additional details are crowd-sourced from the app’s user base.