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Facebook to admit ownership of Instagram, WhatsApp in hard-to-read small-print
For the first time in more than half a decade, Facebook wants to inform you that it owns Instagram, the…
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Sex tech companies and advocates protest unfair ad standards outside Facebook’s NY HQ
A group of sex tech startup founders, employees and supporters gathered outside of Facebook’s NY office in Manhattan to protest…
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UK Facebook users now have a tool to report scam ads
Facebook has launched a tool for UK users to report ads they suspect of being scams. The feature can be…
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Snap turns to search giant Baidu to court Chinese advertisers
Two years have passed since Snap Inc first struck a deal with Baidu that authorized China’s largest search engine to…
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Facebook makes another push to shape and define its own oversight
Facebook’s head of global spin and policy, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, will give a speech later today…
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Indonesia restricts WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram usage following deadly riots
Indonesia is the latest nation to hit the hammer on social media after the government restricted the use of WhatsApp…
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Facebook raises wages, improves conditions for contract content moderators
In a blog post today, Facebook committed to paying its contract workers in the U.S. a “living wage” that’s “more…
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Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes, calls for Facebook to be broken up
The latest call to break up Facebook looks to be the most uncomfortably close to home yet for supreme leader,…
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To cut down on spam, Twitter cuts the number of accounts you can follow per day
Twitter just took another big step to help boot spammers off its platform: it’s cutting the number of accounts Twitter…
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Ruhnn, a Chinese startup that makes influencers, raises $125M in U.S. IPO
Ruhnn, a company that enables influencers to sell through e-commerce and is plotting to change the face of China’s fashion…
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