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Facebook tweaks group mentorship tool so users can choose their mentors
Facebook announced today that it’s pivoting a mentorship tool it started testing among groups earlier this year, as the company…
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Chappy, the Bumble-backed dating app for gay men, inks partnership with GLAAD
Chappy, the dating app for gay men, has today announced a partnership with GLAAD. As part of the partnership, Chappy…
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Limiting social media use reduced loneliness and depression in new experiment
The idea that social media can be harmful to our mental and emotional well-being is not a new one, but…
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Facebook launches Lasso, its music and video TikTok clone
Done cloning Snapchat, Facebook is now chasing Chinese short-form video sensation TikTok with the launch of its knock-off Lasso. Available…
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Listen to the music of a Martian sunrise
Two researchers, Dr. Domenico Vicinanza of Anglia Ruskin University and Dr. Genevieve Williams, have “sonified” a video of the 5,000th…
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LinkedIn Learning now includes 3rd party content and Q&A interactive features
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 580 million users, took a big step into professional…
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Bridging the online and offline marketing gap (VB Live)
There are three inviolable rules that every marketer holds sacred: 1: Keep your message relevant to the consumers you need…
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Facebook removed 14 million pieces of terrorist content this year, and the numbers are rising
Facebook must exert constant vigilance to prevent its platform from being taken over by ne’er-do-wells, but how exactly it does…
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Facebook claims it deleted 3 million pieces of ISIS and Al Qaeda propaganda in Q3 2018
In congressional hearings over the past year, Facebook executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg have cited Facebook’s success in using artificial…
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Flickr says free account limit won’t impact Creative Commons images uploaded before November 1
Flickr rose from its deathbed last week with a bunch of welcome announcements, such as removing the need for a…
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