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Twitter’s manipulated media policy will remove harmful tweets & voter suppression, label others
Twitter today is announcing the official version of its “deepfake” and manipulated media policy, which largely involves labeling tweets and…
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Messenger Kids adds expanded parental controls, details how much kids’ data Facebook collects
Facebook’s messaging app for families with children, Messenger Kids, is being updated today with new tools and features to give…
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Twitter suspends ‘large network’ of fake accounts used to match phone numbers to users
Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” as well…
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How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok
Lip-syncing app Dubsmash was on the brink of death. After a brief moment of virality in 2015 alongside Vine (R.I.P),…
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Vine reboot Byte officially launches
Two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte…
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Wikipedia now has more than 6 million articles in English
Wikipedia has surpassed a notable milestone today: The English version of the world’s largest online encyclopedia now has more than…
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NBC partners with Snapchat on four daily shows for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Snapchat and NBC Olympics are again teaming up to produce customized Olympics content for users in the U.S. — this…
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TikTok’s national security scrutiny tightens as U.S. Navy reportedly bans popular social app
TikTok may be the fastest-growing social network in the history of the internet, but it is also quickly becoming the…
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Facebook acquires a cloud gaming startup
1. Facebook acquires Madrid-based cloud gaming startup PlayGiga Facebook is building out its gaming business — earlier this year, the…
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Subscription-based social network MeWe launches premium features and a business product
MeWe, the subscription-based social network that emphasizes privacy and bills itself as the anti-Facebook, is launching a premium tier of…
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