2022 will be a tense year for Facebook and social apps. Here are 4 reasons why
Social media companies will feel pressure from Washington, European regulators and even their own users over kids' safety and privacy, competition and election-related misinformation.
by Shannon Bond
Jan 03, 2022
3 minutes
The tumult began in early January 2021 for social media companies. The attack on the U.S. Capitol led Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to kick off then-President Donald Trump. Throughout the year, they were challenged to stop the spread of baseless claims about the 2020 presidential election, as well as harmful vaccine misinformation.
Facebook had to respond to a , just when it wanted to turn everyone's attention to the "." Twitter's eccentric , handing the company, as well as its ambitions to create a new version of social media, over over national security concerns fizzled, allowing the Chinese-owned app to cement its hold as the defining driver of .
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