by Anmol
4 months
The Government of India has proposed a new privacy bill to curb the spread of misinformation and fake news. The new bill aims to push social media websites for user verification to ensure a decrease in fake accounts and fake news....
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Instagram is making it mandatory to add a date of birth when creating an account. Now, users need to be at least 13 years old to use the service. Countries like those in the EU have regulations which create a minimum age for onlin...
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Facebook may be porting over one of Instagram’s most loved features, Close Friends. Close Friends was a built-in privacy feature that let you choose to share story content to only a select group of followers, your close frie...
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Twitter has been testing a feature which let users hide replies to their tweets. It rolled out in Canada earlier this year, and now the firm is bringing it worldwide. When using this feature, it puts control of the conversation ba...
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Snapchat is stealing FaceApp’s most memorable feature this year with the launch of Time Machine. No, you won’t be able to travel back in the time and fix your mistakes. What Time Machine does is ls let you pick a time ...
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Facebook has announced the timing of its F8 2020 event. Running from May 5th to May 6th, the conference will let developers know the firm’s plans for the upcoming year. The last F8, we learned about Facebook’s still im...
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Google is turning Maps into a bit of a Social network. The firm has long since had a Local Guides feature where users were encouraged to post photos and share comments and reviews about places they visited around them. Now Google ...
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Facebook was testing a new Popular Photos feature that makes it a lot more like Instagram. In essence, Popular Photos was a feature that would let users scroll through photos posted by friends in a never-ending feed as if they wer...
5 months
Instagram’s private accounts feature lets users share their photos to a curated group of followers. For vulnerable users, it is sort of a safe space where they can be themselves. Ghosty is an app in the Google Play store tha...
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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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