Tech’s New Rivalry: TikTok vs. Amazon
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, October 23rd. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.0 | The social media platform, Tic-Toc, made a name for itself with its viral videos. |
| 0:47.0 | E-commerce giant Amazon is famous for its fast delivery and vast stock of products. Both are successful in their own ways. So why do these |
| 0:56.5 | companies want to move into the others space? Our reporter Megan Bobarowski is going to |
| 1:02.0 | join us to discuss how Tik-Toc and Amazon are approaching |
| 1:05.6 | social shopping and how this is creating a new unexpected rivalry. |
| 1:21.0 | But first, Meta is facing internal tension over how it's dealing with violent content on its platforms since the Hamas attacks on Israel earlier this month. |
| 1:24.4 | An internal forum for Muslim employees has objected to an increased use of |
| 1:29.3 | automatic filters used on posts from the Palestinian territories. That's according to a |
| 1:35.3 | Meta Manager. The company relies heavily on automation to police, Facebook, and |
| 1:40.3 | Instagram, but those tools can stumble. |
| 1:43.4 | For example, its tools have struggled to understand both Palestinian Arabic and Hebrew language |
| 1:48.9 | data. |
| 1:50.2 | When Meta turns to human employees, teams have different views on how the rules should be applied. |
| 1:55.8 | A spokesman said there were more comments from the Palestinian territories that violated its rules. |
| 2:01.5 | So it had to lower the threshold to achieve the same effect produced elsewhere. |
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