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Facebook says birthday fundraisers have raised more than $300 million over the past year
Facebook marked the first anniversary of its birthday fundraisers by revealing that more than $300 million in donations have been…
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Coffee Meets Bagel now lets you bypass Facebook by logging in with your phone number
Dating app Coffee Meets Bagel announced today that it is giving users another way to sign in, as some remain…
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Twitter puts Infowars’ Alex Jones in the ‘read-only’ sin bin for 7 days
Twitter has finally taken action against Infowars creator Alex Jones, but it isn’t what you might think. While Apple, Facebook,…
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Instagram is investigating user reports of hacked accounts
Over the past week, there’s been an uptick in users reporting on Reddit and Twitter that their Instagram accounts have…
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Facebook acqui-hires Utah startup Vidpresso for its interactive live video tools
As Facebook is putting more resources behind its video content, the company announced today that it is ‘acquihiring’ a small…
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Facebook buys Vidpresso’s team and tech to make video interactive
Zombie-like passive consumption of static video is both unhealthy for viewers and undifferentiated for the tech giants that power it.…
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Openbook is the latest dream of a digital life beyond Facebook
As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power,…
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Facebook is the recruiting tool of choice for far-right group the Proud Boys
Twitter may have suspended the Proud Boys and their controversial leader Gavin McInnes, but it was never their platform of…
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Facebook launches social AR games for Messenger
Three months ago Snapchat launched a new social AR gaming feature called Snappables 9 August, 2018 Three months ago Snapchat launched…
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Here’s Twitter’s position on Alex Jones (and hate-peddling anti-truthers) — hint: It’s a fudge
The number of tech platforms taking action against Alex Jones, the far right InfoWars conspiracy theorist and hate speech preacher,…
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Facebook launches social AR games for Messenger
Three months ago Snapchat launched a new social AR gaming feature called Snappables 9 August, 2018 Three months ago Snapchat launched…
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