Why Paid Apps Could Be the Future of Online Communities
A 32,000 strong Facebook group has officially moved to a paid app, and now charges a membership fee of $5 a month or $35 a
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Twitter Plans to Neuter Rule-Breaking Tweets From World Leaders
Twitter aims to restrict its users from liking, replying to, or retweeting any tweets from world leaders that are found to
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Facebook Birthday Charity Raises $1 Billion
More than $1 billion in donations have flowed through Facebook's birthday fundraisers alone over the past few years, thanks
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Facebook and Twitter Cull More Accounts and Devs
Over the weekend, Facebook and Twitter announced that they had banned thousands of app developers and accounts. Shady app
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Instagram to Take on Snapchat With New Messaging App
Instagram is poised to add a standalone messaging app to its lineup, threatening to compete with Snapchat in a very
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YouTube Admits Defeat, Will End Targeted Ads in Kids Videos
YouTube is throwing in the algorthmic towel: The Alphabet-owned video giant has revealed plans to stop running targeted ads
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Trump Plans to Tackle Social Media “Bias” with Censorship Paper
President Donald Trump hopes to pass an executive order that would see social media companies face closer scrutiny from the
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CloudFlare Removes Service from 8chan
8chan's repuation, and its role in the latest shooting has seen one of its service providers, CloudFlare, withdraw it
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The Negative Effects of Technology on Our Bodies
The human body is built to endure a lot, but the negative effects of technology could be too much for some unhealthy people t
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TikTok Under Investigation on Multiple Fronts
Video-sharing app TikTok is under fire in the UK for its 'exploitative' digital gift system that has seen children rack up
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Twitter to Label Rule-Breaking Tweets from Trump
Twitter has often found itself under attack for the way it handles provocative tweets from high profile accounts, and now,
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5 Things We Learned from BBC Interview with Facebook’s Nick Clegg
Today, Nick Clegg, Facebook's Vice-President of Global Affairs and Communications, sat down for an interview on BBC radio,
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Twitch is Suing 100 Users for Their Shady Streaming
Streaming site Twitch is lawyering up to take on 100 of its own users. According to a court filing, Twitch is accusing the
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Why the Internet Hardly Needs Jordan Peterson’s New “Free Speech” Social Media Platform
Jordan Peterson's new social media platform, Thinkspot, is premised on the idea that regular social media sites censor conser
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US Immigration Now Asks For Your Social Media Details
People wishing to travel to the US are now being asked to provide their social media details on visa applications, as well
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Court Rules Elon Musk Needs a Lawyer to Approve His Tweets
Elon Musk's tweets will soon all be lawyer-approved: According to a new court filing, the millionaire CEO has reached an
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TikTok Banned from App Stores in India Following Court Order
Google and Apple have dropped the Chinese social video app TikTok from their app stores in the country of India, following a
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It Hasn’t Been a Good Week for Social Media
With bad headline after bad headline, it hasn't been a great week for social media companies. From Facebook discriminatory
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Four Ways to Fix the Internet
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making a new push for regulation across Europe and the US, and it's the biggest evolution in
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UK Government Wants Social Media Companies to be More Socially Responsible
A new paper from a cross party committee in the UK government is proposing radical new measures to force social media
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How Big Tech Is (and Isn’t) Tackling Anti-Vaxxers
Last week, Facebook announced plans to deprioritize anti-vaccination content on its platform. It's just the latest tech
