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TikTok a Year After Trump’s Ban: No Change, but New Threats
Saturday will mark a year since Donald Trump said he would ban the wildly popular and annoyingly addictive short-video app…
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China’s Nationalistic ‘Wolf Warriors’ Blast Foes on Twitter
On Monday, Li Yang, China’s consul general in Rio de Janeiro, took to Twitter to mock the rescue efforts following…
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Twitter to Add More Context to Rejected Verification Requests
Photo: Alastair Pike (Getty Images) Now when Twitter rejects your request for that coveted blue checkmark, it’ll be personal. The…
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Clubhouse Aimed to Foster Diversity. Is it Working?
Higgins, who is based in London, joined this wave in October last year, calling it a “music renaissance,” and said…
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A New Wave of Dating Apps Takes Cues From TikTok and Gen Z
The pandemic could have doomed online dating. Instead, it sent singles swiping more than ever before. Sanctions on in-person meetups…
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How Some Americans Are Breaking Out of Political Echo Chambers
Last October, students in Sarah Candler’s seventh-grade English class in rural Tennessee were discussing the presidential election, echoing each other’s…
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Here Are the Possible Criteria for Super Follows on Twitter
Photo: Andrew Burton (Getty Images) It appears that not just anyone will be able to make bank for the time…
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Admit It: The Facebook Oversight Board Is Kind of Working
Judging from the press releases filling my inbox and the tweets lighting up my timeline, no one is happy with…
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Don’t End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame
When a person dies in a car crash in the US, data on the incident is typically reported to the…
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Deepfake Maps Could Really Mess With Your Sense of the World
Satellite images showing the expansion of large detention camps in Xinjiang, China, between 2016 and 2018 provided some of the…
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