Haken dran – das Social-Media-Update der c't · Gavin Karlmeier

Flensburg für die Datenautobahn (mit Dennis Horn)

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Meta signals it may stop funding its 'independent' Oversight Board after 2028, raising questions about platform accountability.

1. Haken dran, c't magazine's social media news podcast, covers Meta's Oversight Board funding threat, TikTok's Brazil banking move, Elon Musk's SEC case, and platform monetization in a dense 70-minute episode. 2. The episode features two regular co-hosts — one identified as Gavin Kalmeier and one referred to as Dennis Horn — recording Tuesday evening as a US Iran ultimatum expires overnight. 3. The episode's thesis is that platforms are expanding power across banking, content, and legal insulation while regulators fall further behind, with both hosts reaching a shared pessimistic conclusion by the end. 4. Meta told its Oversight Board members that post-2028 funding may be eliminated, having already cut it in 2024 from the original $280 million commitment made in 2019 and 2022. 5. One host notes that 2028 is the year of the next US presidential election and argues the date is not coincidental — Meta is hedging on the political environment before deciding whether it still needs a nominal watchdog. 6. TikTok applied for two financial services licenses in Brazil: one for digital payments and one to issue or broker loans to its 91.7 million Brazilian users. 7. The hosts argue the loan license is especially concerning because TikTok's young user base already normalizes micro-payments via coins and diamonds in livestreams, and adding credit lines creates debt traps for users with no credit history. 8. TikTok introduced new advertising formats including a brand logo visible at app launch and a 'Puls Mentions' format that surfaces brand ads where users are already discussing those brands in comments. 9. TikTok announced a 'Puls Tastemakers' ad product allowing brands to place ads alongside specific creators — a format one host says already exists on YouTube and is 'logical' from an advertising standpoint. 10. TikTok integrated Cameo directly into the app, allowing creators to offer personalized videos without users leaving TikTok, and enabling new Cameo signups directly through TikTok. 11. One host argues the Cameo integration — where a celebrity greeting video now costs money rather than being reachable via a free DM — breaks the parasocial closeness that made social media feel different from traditional celebrity culture. 12. TikTok launched a creator incubator partnership with streaming platform Tubi, allowing successful creators to develop longer-form shows exclusive to Tubi. 13. One host uses the Tubi partnership as evidence that TikTok does not actually believe in long-form video — arguing that if it did, it would have built the capability itself rather than outsourcing economic risk to a partner. 14. TikTok introduced a Flensburg-style points system for policy violations: accounts accumulate points per violation across categories such as comments, live streams, and harassment, with permanent ban triggered at category thresholds; points expire after 90 days. 15. The SEC versus Elon Musk case — centered on Musk's alleged failure to promptly disclose his 10% Twitter stake acquisition nearly four years ago — moved toward formal court proceedings after a meeting between Musk's lawyers and the SEC. 16. The New York Times reported that Musk is conditioning participation in the planned SpaceX IPO — valued at roughly 2 trillion dollars — on banks and advisors buying Grok subscriptions, in some cases worth several million dollars per year. 17. One host says this Grok subscription tie-in is 'really really really making me angry' and calls it a textbook example of Musk using one part of his business empire to push another. 18. The episode has a conversational, digressive style — the hosts frequently interrupt each other, make pop-culture jokes, and build arguments collaboratively rather than presenting prepared segments. 19. Listeners interested in German-language tech journalism who follow platform regulation, social media monetization, and Elon Musk's business activities will find the episode directly relevant. 20. Listeners who prefer English-language podcasts or who want brief, structured news summaries rather than discursive co-host debate will likely find the format too slow.

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