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What It Means for Your Account
Image: WhatsApp, Graphic: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo) After facing international backlash over impending updates to its privacy policy, WhatsApp has ever-so-slightly…
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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 Groups Offer India a Covid-19 Lifeline
In Srinagar, the city where I live in Indian-administered Kashmir, the streets are deserted under a lockdown. But through Twitter…
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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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Oversight Board to Facebook: We’re Not Doing Your Dirty Work
On January 21, Facebook asked its Oversight Board to review its decision to indefinitely ban Donald Trump, and guide it…
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Trump’s Facebook Ban Is Upheld—For Now
The Facebook Oversight Board is often described as a “Supreme Court” for Facebook. On Wednesday, it acted like it—issuing a…
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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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Activists Say Facebook Allows Drug Ads to Target Teens
Teenagers on Facebook can be targeted by ads endorsing alcohol, drugs, gambling, smoking, and eating disorders, according to a report…
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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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