Hello and welcome to our roundup of the latest digital news, in the week Facebook ‘made the news’ in more ways than one, launching a News tab and appearing before congress to answer questions about Libra.
- Mark Zuckerberg on how the News tab, giving premium, trusted news publishers strong real estate in the platform can revive journalism
- Instagram launches ‘series’ option for IGTV and is testing out categorisation for those you are following to better curate user experience
- Snapchat is wooing retailers with a Dynamic Product advertising offering and has also added a share to Snapchat kit for publishers and brands
- Instagram has made further strides to reduce misinformation, flagging disputed articles as potentially false and has also banned cosmetic surgery filters
- Publishers are finding monetization success on Snapchat Discover
- Meet BERT, the machine learning helping you to more relevant results on Google
- Teens explain their obsession with YouTube
- The BBC has launched interactive news for the Alexa and has also put a version of their news site on the so-called dark web to get around censors
- Yes, you can now flick through every Argos catalogue ever made online
- Jet lag could be a thing of the past with this new app, based on the latest sleep and circadian neuroscience
- The story behind JEDI, the US Department of Defence contract contested by Amazon and Microsoft
- More than just chips! Inside McDonald’s technology programme
- Behind the scenes of the failed attempt to re-launch Gawker