Social Media

With less than four hours to spare, a federal judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to ban new TikTok downloads in the US. In an emergency hearing over the weekend, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols partially granted a…
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Social networking giant Facebook says it terminated three fake account networks that could have been working for Russian intelligence. The intelligence, according to FB, might be leaking suspicious documents before the U.S presidential…
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As reported earlier this year, Twitter has been testing voice tweets on iOS for some time, but the feature is not yet available to everyone. While voice tweets will likely remain in beta for a while, Twitter is now adding the option to…
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The GDPR let us know that Europe is serious about data protection and privacy. Websites all across the world were readjusted for these regulations. Facebook, though, seems to think it should be free to do with customer data as it wishes,…
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TikTok has proposed a global coalition of social media firms for early identification and removal of harmful content, the company said on Tuesday, as networking apps face a barrage of criticism over issues ranging from misinformation to…
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Facebook has announced a new grant and ad credit fund to support SMEs that have been negatively affected by the economic impact of Covid-19. On Tuesday (22 September), Facebook announced that it will provide €4.7m in grant funding to more…
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TikTok’s popularity has soared in the last few months but that has come at a cost: its content moderation team is struggling to keep the video platform free of spam and malicious content. As per TikTok’s latest transparency report, it had…
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Facebook will soon protect images with the same technology the company already uses to automatically police protected music and videos. On Monday, September 21, Facebook launched Rights Manager for Images to limited Pages, a tool that…
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President Donald Trump has approved Oracle’s proposed deal to acquire the U.S. assets of TikTok, following a phone call with Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon. “I have given the deal my blessing. If they get it…
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Social networking site Facebook agreed to share its data with Pakistani authorities to investigate and eradicate cybercrime. The company’s administration has signed an agreement with the cybercrime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency…
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