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A ton of people don’t know that Facebook owns WhatsApp
Americans looking to reduce their reliance on products from tech’s most alarmingly megalithic companies might be surprised to learn just…
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Twitter tests out ‘annotations’ in Moments
Twitter is trying out a small new change to Moments that would provide contextual information within its curated stories. Spotted…
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Why IGTV should go premium
It’s been four months since Facebook launched IGTV, with the goal of creating a destination for longer-form Instagram videos. Is…
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Sidestepping App Stores, Facebook Lite and Groups get Instant Games
HTML5 almost ruined Facebook when baking in the mobile web standard to speed up development slowed down the performance of…
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Twitter will now display a notice for 14 days when someone deletes a reported tweet
If you’re an avid Twitter user, you’ve probably clicked on a tweet that’s racked up quite a few retweets or…
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MTV’s Real World will be revived with interactivity on Facebook Watch
The world’s first hit reality show “The Real World” is being reimagined for Facebook Watch 26 years after it debuted…
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Facebook News Feed now downranks sites with stolen content
Facebook is demoting trashy news publishers and other websites that illicitly scrape and republish content from other sources with little…
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Periscope broadcasters can now assign their own chat moderators
It’s going to be harder for trolls to disrupt Periscope broadcasts. The Twitter-owned live-streaming app has offered chat moderation capabilities…
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Pinterest adds dynamic pricing, product recommendations for style and home decor
Just in time for the holidays, Pinterest is announcing a slew of changes to make it easier for people to…
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Facebook to remove more voting misinformation, considered ban on political advertising
The world’s largest online social network, with 1.5 billion daily users, has stopped short of banning all false or misleading…
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