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BlueSky benefits from X’s Brazil ban: a fragmenting social ecosystem is shaky ground for incumbents

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Hanna Kahlert
X has long been the social platform of ‘on the pulse’ news updates and cultural happenings. Its users over-index for using social platforms to keep up with news and culture (as outlined in our social platform user behaviour report ), and its high-profile posts often make it into the broader news cycle and dictate coverage and strategy.
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Instagram drops the Like and WhatsApp defends privacy in India: Facebook’s PR reinvention

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Hanna Kahlert
Facebook is now old enough that there are teenagers on it that are younger than it is. In the time that it has been around, it has reinvented social media . It has also had to do some reinventing of itself, adding to its portfolio image-sharing app Instagram and end-to-end encrypted messaging service WhatsApp to form a powerful trifecta dominating mainstream digital socialisation.
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