What I'm Reading - 12/15/24

I just finished writing my final analysis newsletter for 2024, which will come out on Wednesday. I am looking at tech’s role in the 2024 election and how they are acting post-election as they try to curry favor with Trump.

As we close 2024, thank you all for your support and reading. I’ll still be doing these weekly link round-ups over the Holidays, but this will be the last week of the Tuesday calendar, the Wednesday analysis, and the Thursday podcast until 2025 unless some huge breaking news happens.

I’ve been working on many exciting plans for 2025. To understand what content you want to see, please take the reader survey that Ben Whitelaw, Alice Hunsberger, and I are conducting.

Have a great Sunday!

Top Trends

1. Oversight Board on LinkedIn: Reflecting on a Historic Year: AI, Social Media, and Lessons for Election Integrity

2. Center for Campaign Innovation: 10 Key Takeaways From Our 2024 National Post-Election Survey

3. ICYMI by Lia Haberman
   : ICYMI 2025 Social Media Predictions: Platforms + Content Formats

4. YouTube Blog: Smash that replay button: A 2024 recap of YouTube on TV

5. The New Consumer: Introducing Consumer Trends 2025

6. The New Yorker: 2024 Is the Year Creators Took Over

Stories About Specific Countries

1. The Chosun Daily: President Yoon Suk-yeol impeached over martial law crisis

2. Bloomberg: Trump Is on Collision Course With EU Over Big Tech Crackdown

3. Bloomberg: Covert Facebook Network Found Targeting Romanian Voters

4. The Washington Post: The life of a journalist in India: Doxed, stalked, criminally charged

5. Oversight Board: New Decision Reveals Meta’s Uneven Treatment of News Reporting on the Assassination of Mexican Mayoral Candidate

Political & Social Commentary

1. Who Targets Me: Should tech companies be forced to carry political ads?

2. The Associated Press: Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump's way — or his

3. Financial Times: Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’

4. POLITICO: The MAGA culture war comes for Silicon Valley

5. Axios: Behind the Curtain: The Great Upheaval

6. Business Insider: influencers say they're seeing big engagement boosts by posting TikTok-like videos

7. The Wall Street Journal: Their Job Is to Push Computers Toward AI Doom

8. The New York Times: I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw.

9. Shorenstein Center: The Future of Trustworthy Information: Learning from Online Content Creators

10. The Washington Post: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1M to Trump inauguration fund

11. Wall Street Journal: The Week CEOs Bent the Knee to Trump

12. Axios: Amazon gives $1M to 2025 inaugural fund in latest Big Tech gift for Trump

13. Fox Business: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund

14. Fast Company: In defense of being 'extremely online.' The creator economy by the numbers

15. National Civic Info Needs Census Report: The Local Information Needs of Americans

Legal & Regulatory

1. The New York Times: Opinion | The TikTok Ruling Is a Blow for the First Amendment and Free Speech

2. American Sunlight Project: Deepfake Pornography Goes to Washington: Measuring the Prevalence of AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery Targeting Congress

3. Mashable: Content moderation in Trump's America is a political minefield

4. The Atlantic: The Government’s Disturbing Rationale for Banning TikTok

5. Digital Politics: 5 Things to know about the DSA risk assessments and audits

6. The Verge: Threads is asking people if it moderates too much.

7. Fast Company: With its TikTok push, C-SPAN is breaking out of its basic-cable confines

Miscellaneous Insights & Reports

1. Hollywood Reporter: ‘Yellowstone’ Executive Producer on Taylor Sheridan’s Cowboy Episode and What to Expect in the Finale

2. Deadline: ‘Yellowstone’ Universe Expands With Offshoot Starring Kelly Reilly & Cole Hauser

3. Rest of World: How WhatsApp ate the world

Company Announcements

1. TikTok Newsroom: How TikTok counters deceptive behaviour

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