Social Media

Instagram has introduced a new way to stay connected with your friends while practicing social distancing. The social media giant announced a “co-watching” feature on Tuesday, March 23, which lets users scroll through posts and watch…
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Zoom’s video calling service has been available for a while now but the unprecedented number of people working from home during the coronavirus pandemic has skyrocketed the app’s popularity. However, research conducted by Vice’s tech…
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Three years ago, the U.K. government chastised WhatsApp for using enabling end-to-end encryption by default. Today, it’s relying on the encrypted messaging app as a vital service for sharing information about the coronavirus pandemic. The…
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Facebook Messenger may ban mass-forwarding of messages in an effort to lasso the runaway forwarding of COVID-19 fake news and rumors, it confirmed on Sunday. Facebook has done this before when its other messaging services have gone berserk…
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Facebook is temporarily downgrading the quality of video streaming in Europe on its social platforms Facebook and Instagram in response to a call for action from the European Commission, per Reuters. Disney has also said it will work to…
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Instagram confirmed that it is testing yet another Snapchat-inspired feature: ephemeral Instagram Direct text messaging. Blogger and developer Jane Manchun Wong shared a GIF roughly depicting how the feature works in a tweet. Instagram is…
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Facebook on desktop will soon look a lot closer to the version of the social network that’s on your phone as a much-anticipated redesign begins to trickle out. Facebook began rolling out the option to opt in to a new streamlined desktop…
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In order to try and attract new users to its platform, TikTok moderators have censored content from people deemed too ugly, poor or disabled, according to leaked documents. As The Intercept reports, TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese…
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SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Wednesday barred users from posting misleading information about the new coronavirus, including denials of expert guidance and encouragement of fake treatments, tightening its normally lax rules around speech. The…
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In an effort to stop the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19, aka coronavirus, outbreak, Facebook will start to put coronavirus information at the top of the news feed, so that it’s the first thing people see when they log on. …
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