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Telegram is rapidly iterating on its app, and now today it has launched yet another set of new features to its already feature-packed messaging app. The highlights of this week’s release are as follows: Scheduled Messages: T...
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Twitter has shut down functionality which allowed users to text SMS messages to send a tweet. The move comes after CEO Jac Dorsey’s account was attacked last week and used as a platform to spread racist and white nationalist...
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Deepfakes are a uniquely late 20s tool of disinformation. The audiovisual version of memes which show false statements next to political figures, they are more dangerous simply because humans tend to believe video more than other ...
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Facebook had a somewhat creepy default face-scanning feature that wold scan and attempt to match faces in photos to the users they belonged to. After some discourse, the firm has now made some changes to how this works. It’s...
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Instagram is now testing out a feature which allows users to control who can message them. Currently, any Instagram user can message any other account. This allows for a proliferation of spammers who add random people to group cha...
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You’d think the social media head of one of the largest social media firms would have better control of his account, but Jack Dorsey’s account was compromised earlier today. The account began posting racial slurs and o...
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Spotify is expanding its integration with social media apps to the most mainstream of social products to ever mainstream — Facebook. Now users can share a track directly from Spotify over to Instagram. It’s worth notin...
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Even as our phones are portals to an entertaining world of fun and whims, they’re also an easy way for governments to manipulate users without them knowing. Tech companies have stepped up in that regard, taking action to str...
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Facebook is making a change to how groups are created and defined on the social network, limiting options to a simple common-sense model. Currently, a group on Facebook can be classified as one of three, Public, Secret or Closed. ...
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The White House has drafted a proposal which would grant Federal bodies the power to control how social media platforms moderate their users. The proposal targets firms like Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, and any others who have ...
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Facebook’s ambitions to be a media player were clear with Facebook and Instagram TV, and now they’ve gotten even stronger with the firm’s new move of selling subscriptions directly to users. Facebook is launching...