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44 Attorneys General Ask Facebook to Kill Instagram for Kids
Photo: Mark Lennihan (AP) In an open letter, forty-four attorneys general have beseeched Mark Zuckerberg to mercifully stop the company’s…
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Twitter Rolls Out Prompts to Get You to Send Friendlier Tweets
Graphic: Twitter Twitter is (again) asking you to think a bit before you tweet. On Wednesday, the company announced that…
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You Can Have More Than 150 Friends
Dunbar first came up with the number by observing primates grooming.Photo: Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images (Getty Images) In the early 1990s,…
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Facebook Bans Honest Signal Ads on Instagram
Graphic: Signal A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the…
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Instagram Rolls Out Clubhouse-esque Features for Instagram Live
Image: Instagram As more and more social media platforms start cooking up their own Clubhouse clones, Instagram is adding new…
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India Cracks Down on Social Media Posts Criticizing Its Pandemic Response Amid Brutal Second Wave
Photo: Denis Charlet (Getty Images) India’s government reportedly ordered Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to censor dozens of posts criticizing the…
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Facebook Oversight Board Lets Users Flag Still-Up Content
Photo: Joel Saget (Getty Images) If you have problems with any hate speech, harassment, or generally bad takes that appear…
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Reddit’s Reportedly Cooking Up Its Own Clubhouse-Like Voice Chat Feature
Photo: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images) Rumor has it the front page of the internet may be the latest online platform…
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Cybercriminals Put Out Facebook Ads for a Fake Clubhouse App That Was Riddled with Malware
Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP (Getty Images) Cybercriminals have been pushing Facebook users to download a Clubhouse app “for PC,” something that…
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Don’t Blame the ACLU for Facebook’s Ills
Photo: Jason Kempin (Getty Images) Earlier this week, folks in tech-savvy onlookers were utterly scandalized when a tweet thread from…
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