Social Media

Lasso, Facebook’s answer to the wildly popular TikTok, is going to the great app store in the sky. Based on screenshots tweeted by CNN media reporter Kerry Flynn, it appears the app will shutter on Friday, July 10. Quietly introduced in…
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Twitter has pulled a picture shared by President Donald Trump for copyright infringement. The tweet, which at the time of writing was liked by more than 300,000 people, featured a photograph taken by Damon Winter, a Pulitzer-Prize winning…
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Facebook said Wednesday that it shared user data with thousands of developers even after access should have expired. The social network said it fixed the issue, but the mistake allowed an estimated 5,000 developers to continue receiving…
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Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has begun spending heavily on Facebook ads that also promote the social media pages of his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, running more than $325,000 (£262,135) in such ads, mostly in recent weeks.…
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Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook on Wednesday, after the failure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott over hate speech on the site. U.S. civil rights groups have…
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Facebook isn’t just limiting the spread of “boogaloo” groups on its platform — it’s tossing many of those groups out. The social media giant has banned accounts and pages from the pro-civil-war group after deeming a violent network that…
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Microsoft has suspended advertising on Facebook and Instagram, making it the latest major brand to cut its marketing spending on the social networks. Microsoft stopped its advertising on the social media platforms in the U.S. last month,…
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It has not been a great week for Facebook, but it’s not the only target of the Anti-Defamation League’s insurgent #StopHateForProfit social media campaign. Twitter has likewise taken its lumps as corporations — either out of conscience or…
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Reddit has banned an online message board dedicated to supporting Donald Trump, and thousands of other online communities, in sweeping new measures designed to combat hate speech. The company said in a statement that it banned…
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Twitter will fix the frequency of the fact-checking labels that is intended only to apply to tweets that link COVID-19 to 5G technology. Twitter has taken a stand against the spread of conspiracy theories that claim 5G is spreading the…
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