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Facebook policy head makes a surprising cameo at the Kavanaugh hearing
Facebook might be doing its best to stay out of political scandals in the latter half of 2018, but the…
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Tech and ad giants sign up to Europe’s first weak bite at ‘fake news’
The European Union’s executive body has signed up tech platforms and ad industry players to a voluntary Code of Practice…
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3 ways Facebook might change Instagram now that its cofounders are out
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are leaving Facebook, six years after the Mark Zuckerberg-led company bought their photo-sharing app, Instagram.…
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Tinder in India launches ‘My Move,’ a Bumble-like feature where women chat first
Tinder in India is now rolling out a new feature that allows women to make the first move. The setting,…
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Twitter says it will now ask everyone for feedback about its policy changes, starting today
Twitter says it’s going to change the way it creates rules regarding the use of its service to also now…
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Snapchat’s users are surprisingly old and it’s telling them to vote
Snapchat is a college favorite more than a high school phenomenon. Only 20 percent of Snapchat’s US users are under…
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Facebook sends Sphero robots so classrooms can apply coding education
Program a robotic toy to move and you could be hooked on coding for life. That’s the idea behind Facebook’s…
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Facebook expands its video Ad Breaks to 21 new countries
Facebook Ad Breaks, the social network’s pre-roll and mid-roll video ads, are launching in 21 new countries. Facebook announced that…
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Seven reasons not to trust Facebook to play cupid
Facebook getting into dating looks very much like a mid-life crisis — as a veteran social network desperately seeks a…
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Instagram denies it’s building Regramming. Here’s why it’d be a disaster
Instagram tells me Regramming, or the ability to instantly repost someone else’s feed post to your followers like a retweet,…
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