The New York Times Monday August 12, 2024
Former President Donald J. Trump, known for his obsession with the large crowds that Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing at her rallies, falsely claimed in a series of social media posts on Sunday that she had used artificial intelligence to create images and videos of fake crowds. “The crowds at Ms. Harris’s events, including one in Detroit outside an airplane hangar, were witnessed by thousands of people and news outlets, including The New York Times,” notes the newspaper. The Daily Beastshoots down Trump’s claim, with real photos.
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The New York Times Monday August 12, 2024
CNET, an early pioneer of online tech coverage, is changing hands: Ziff Davis, a digital media giant that owns other technology-focused brands like Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker, is buying the company from Red Ventures for more than $100 million. Ziff Davis’s chief executive, Vivek Shah, tells The New York Times to expect more deals across the industry, as tech giants like Google and Meta snatch an increasing portion of digital ad spending and as advances in artificial intelligence threaten to further disrupt the digital-media landscape.
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Vogue Monday August 12, 2024
Hoping to become a rock star, Casper Sejersen moved to Copenhagen and instead fell into photography. Then director Lars von Trier’s office called “out of the blue” and gave him carte blanche to create "Belongs to Joe," a photographic essay based on the script of his film Nymphomaniac,noted Vogue. Since then, Sejersen has shot back-to-back fall lookbooks for Dries Van Noten. created the green velvet apple that was the set for fellow Dane Cecilie Bahnsen’s Paris show, and photographed Alexander McQueen’s resort 2025 lookbook.
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PetaPixel Monday August 12, 2024
Instagram has announced that it is changing its analytics to make views the primary metric across all of the formats for the content. “Reel Plays” will be relabeled as Views. Meanwhile, views will also become the primary metric for photos, carousels, and Stories, reports PetaPixel. “Historically we’ve shown different metrics for Reels vs. other posts, but we want to evolve this so it’s easier to understand how your content is doing regardless of the format,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted in a post.
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