Social Media Platforms Need to Pick a Side
Social media sites can no longer fence-sit in the fight between established, institutional power and calls for social justice
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While Minneapolis Burns, Trump Starts a Firefight with Social Media
President Trump and the social media industry have butted heads over fact-checking and censorship on the platforms
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Facebook Fights Back Against Zoom, Houseparty, Hangouts
Facebook has announced some big video-based changes, including Messenger Rooms for group video calls with up to 50 people.
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How Tech is Battling Covid-19 Fake News
With fake news spreading online and being used in scams, many tech companies are tackling the problem head on.
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Study Finds 25% of Climate Change Tweets Come From Bots
A study has uncovered that bots are responsible for 25% of tweets about climate change, with most denying its impact.
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TikTok to Help Parents Stop Excessive Screen Usage
TikTok has announced new features designed for making the app safer, including screen time management for parents.
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Elon Musk Tells Users to Delete Facebook
In a recent tweet, Elon Musk told his 31 million followers to delete their Facebook accounts, calling it 'lame'.
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Vine Founder Launches Follow-up with Byte
If you're missing Vine and TikTok just isn't doing it for you, then good news: Byte has just launched.
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Clearview AI Takes Facial Recognition Data of Millions from Social Media
Is there anything you can do to prevent your photos ending up on a facial recognition database these days?
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TikTok Challenges WhatsApp for Most Downloaded App of the Year
A new report from SensorTower, charting the most popular app downloads of 2019, shows TikTok is closing in on WhatsApp.
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How to Start a Podcast
Here, we'll offer a quick overview of how you can start your own podcast for free (or at least, as cheaply as possible).
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The 10 Most Cringeworthy Tech Tweets of 2019
Ring out the shame bells! Here are some of the most cringeworthy tech tweets of 2019. Revel in all their awkward glory.
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Facebook and Google Just Dropped Off 2020’s “Best Places to Work” List
Glassdoor's long-running "Best Places to Work" list has just debuted for 2020, with a few shocks for big tech companies.
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Instagram is Switching Off ‘Likes’ and People Aren’t Happy
Instagram's CEO, Adam Mosseri, announced over the weekend that the platform will stop displaying the number of likes posts
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Indian Twitter Influencers Leave Platform in Protest
Users of Twitter in India have begun moving over to a rival platform, after complaints about the company's moderation
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Twitter Staff Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia
Two former Twitter employees have been charged by the US justice department for spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia, having
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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
