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Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Friday, July 28th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Netflix built its ad-supported streaming service quickly in less than a year,

but getting advertisers on board and finding subscribers willing to watch those ads,

well that's been a slow process. And now the streaming giant is rethinking its approach.

Our deputy media editor Jessica Tunkel will join us later with a WSJ scoop on what's

changing at Netflix. But first, after two quarters of record losses, Intel has returned to profits.

The company's surprised forecasters last night and reported one and a half billion dollars

of profit last quarter as demand for personal computers rose. Intel's revenue reached nearly

13 billion dollars. That's an increase from last quarter, but 15% lower than a year ago.

Research about the effects of social media on politics is leading to disagreement between scholars

and Facebook parent meta, which provided the data for the studies. Four peer-reviewed papers were

published in the journal's Science in Nature yesterday following multi-year investigations.

And while the focus of those reports differ, they broadly show the influence Facebook holds

over what information users consume on its platform. But they also said it's not clear that

kind of content affects users' political views and behavior. Our social media reporter Jeff

Horowitz says meta and the researchers are interpreting the findings in very different ways.

Meta issued an announcement stating that this is pretty much a vindication of the company's

contention that it does not polarize users, that social media does not have divisive societal effects.

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