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Facebook came under fire this week from its black and other POC employees for allegedly facilitating a company culture of racism. In a post made on Medium by an anonymous group of twelve Facebook employees, past and present, numer...
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Instagram is extending its ‘like’ hiding test to the US. The firm had rolled it out to Canada, Japan and other regions earlier this year, and now TechCrunch reports that the US is getting a taste of it soon. In essence...
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Facebook is extending its controversial anything-goes-on-political-ads policies to the UK, CNN reported on Friday. The firm, which was criticised for allowing political ads to deceive users was criticised on both sides of the pond...
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Twitter today made the decision to ban political ads of all stripes, taking a stand in a contentious debate that plagued the internet since Facebook decided that it would not police political ads. We’ve made the decision to stop...
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Facebook is about to get back into the news media business once more, the firm is opening up a dedicated news tab on its apps as per a report from the Washington Post. Much like MSN News and Apple News, there’ll be some huma...
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Twitter has been under fire this year for — I guess almost everything. The firm has been criticised for its inconsistent approach to moderation of political tweets, its lax approach to security, and its amplification of some...
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Facebook has released information on a new set of initiatives it plans to adopt to protect the US 2020 elections. After being sued as a tool for election interference in both the US and other countries, the firm has taken steps to...
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Facebook announced FB5 for the web earlier this year. Billed as “a fresh new design for Facebook that’s simpler, faster, more immersive and puts your communities at the center,” the redesign came first to mobile apps...
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Instagram is making it easy to unfollow people you don’t interact with. A new feature discovered by Facebook sleuth Jane Manchun Wong reveals a series of screenshots showing algorithmically generated groups such as users tha...
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Facebook suddenly started allowing political campaigns to lie in ads over the past week, and US presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has taken them to task over it. Posting an ad with a demonstrable falsehood, she aims to highl...
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Facebook is rolling out a set of stickers and filters in response to World Mental Health Day. The firm announced that it would be releasing a “Let’s Talk” set of story filters to enable people to solicit conversa...