Amaya Toman Today's part of our regular column called Summary of the Day will be entirely about social networks. First up is TikTok, which is planning to introduce a new feature to approve comments before they are published. Facebook is also preparing a new function - it is intended for creators and will allow them to monetize even very short videos. Last but not least, we will talk about Instagram, whose lightweight version is now slowly spreading to the world.
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The popular social network is launching a new feature in its comments section. This is intended to significantly reduce the occurrence of offensive comments that could bear the signs of cyberbullying. Creators on TikTok will now be able to take advantage of a feature that allows viewers to approve comments before they can be published. At the same time, a pop-up notice will also appear in the relevant section, which prompts the user to think about whether his post is inappropriate or offensive before publishing his comment. This feature should allow users to slow down before posting a comment and think about whether it might hurt someone. Creators already have a feature on TikTok that allows them to partially filter comments based on keywords. According to TikTok, the two new features are meant to help maintain a supportive, positive environment where creators can primarily focus on increasing their creativity and finding the right community. TikTok isn't the only social network to take steps to control comments more recently — Twitter, for example, said last month it was testing a similar feature to prompt reflection on a post.
Monetizing Facebook Videos
Facebook decided this week to expand monetization options on its social network. The path to further income for creators will not lead to any other way than through advertising. In one of his blog posts, Facebook's director of in-app monetization, Yoav Arnstein, said that creators on Facebook will have a new opportunity to earn money by including ads in their short videos. This possibility is nothing new on Facebook, but until now creators could only use it for videos whose footage was at least three minutes long. Ads usually played thirty seconds into the video. It will now be possible to add an ad to videos that are one minute long. Arnstein said Facebook wants to focus on monetizing short-form videos and will soon be testing sticker-like ads in Facebook Stories. Of course, monetization will not be for everyone - one of the conditions should be, for example, 600 thousand watched minutes in the last sixty days, or five or more active or Live videos.
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Instagram Lite goes global
The third report in our roundup today will also be related to Facebook. Facebook is gradually starting to distribute its Instagram Lite application worldwide. As the name suggests, this is a lightweight version of the popular Instagram application, which will be intended primarily for those users who own older or less powerful smartphones. Testing of the application, the size of which is around 2 MB, has been going on for some time in selected countries of the world. This week, the Instagram Lite application was officially released in 170 countries around the world. Instagram Lite first saw the light of day in Mexico in 2018, but two years later in May, it was pulled from the market again and Facebook decided to redesign it. In September of last year, the application appeared in several countries. It is not yet clear in which countries Instagram Lite is now available - but most likely it will be mainly in areas where the Internet connection does not exactly reach dizzying speeds. At the time of writing, Instagram Lite was not yet available in countries such as Germany, Great Britain or the United States. It is not yet clear whether Facebook plans to expand this application also for older devices with the iOS operating system.
Watch the movie On the Net online for free
Roughly a year after its cinema premiere, which was partially affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the controversial documentary V síti Bára Chalupová and Vít Klusák hit the television screens. The film, in which a trio of adult actresses portrayed twelve-year-old girls and circulated on discussion websites and social networks, was broadcast by Czech Television in the middle of this week. Those who missed the film need not despair - the film can be viewed in the iVysílání archive.
