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Glossier launches its first spin-off brand, a line of Instagram-friendly ‘dialed-up’ beauty extras
Glossier, known for its line of understated makeup products and a cult-following of millennial Instagrammers, is getting colorful with the…
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Facebook announces new program for premium video ads
Facebook is expanding its efforts around premium video advertising with a new program called Facebook Showcase. This follows the announcement…
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Facebook urged to offer an API for political ad transparency research
Facebook has been called upon to provide good faith researchers with an API to enable them to study how political…
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Dating apps face questions over age checks after report exposes child abuse
The UK government has said it could legislate to require age verification checks on users of dating apps, following an…
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Facebook warned over privacy risks of merging messaging platforms
Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has asked the company for an “urgent briefing” regarding plans to integrate the…
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Leaked TikTok ad deck suggests it has 17M+ MAUs in Europe
An advertising pitch deck used by fast-growing short form video sharing app TikTok has leaked, providing a snapshot of usage in…
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Tencent moves into automotive with $150M joint venture
China’s internet firms are getting pally with giant state-owned automakers as they look to deploy their artificial intelligence and cloud…
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Just 1% of Twitter users exposed to 80% of fake news during the 2016 U.S. election
Just a small percentage of Twitter users were responsible for sharing fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a…
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Facebook urged to give users greater control over what they see
Academics at the universities of Oxford and Stanford think Facebook should give users greater transparency and control over the content…
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Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
After the driver of a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students in Dhaka in July, student protesters…
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