by Raka
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Telegram Desktop app for Windows 10 received an update today. Taking the app to version 1.8.8., the update introduces several new features and no bug fixes. The update is now available in the Microsoft Store with the following cha...
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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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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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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...
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The Court of Justice of the European Union recently made a ruling that could place websites as liable for privacy violations stemming from any data transmitted to Facebook. To pull out the principle more broadly, the ruling states...
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Instagram has fallen under some criticism this week for its privacy policies. This time, it’s not entirely Instagram’s fault. It’s more a quirk of the system and how it interacts with teenagers and their need to ...
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Facebook redesigned its Messenger app for users on iOS and Android last year to incorporate a cleaner, bolder and more modern design language. Today the firm has begun rolling it out to users on desktop devices, and users of the F...
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Tinder has made a change to its Android app, encouraging users who want to make in-app purchases to enter their debit card data rather than use the Google Play’s Store own built-in mechanisms. To be clear, users can still op...
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Instagram’s account disabling policies are now about to get far more transparent with a change to its account policies. Instagram will now automatically remove accounts who cross a threshold of community guidelines violation...