Twitter acquired the newsletter service Revue earlier this year in hopes of attracting journalists and writers looking to share content beyond the social network’s 280-character limit. Now the news service, already integrated into Twitter, has...
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The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) fined Facebook $ 69.6 million for violating a compliance order. Previously, the tech giant acquired a service for finding, downloading and creating GIFs – Giphy. The order stipulated that Facebook...
Facebook wants to change its name. About it writes The Verge citing unnamed sources. The publication claims that the company’s management intends to create a brand that will suit the concept of the “metaverse” and all products...
Social network Instagram announced a major update of the service. One of the biggest changes will be the ability to publish posts from computers – at the moment, publications are only possible from smartphones and tablets. About it writes The...
Any Internet user who has started live broadcasting online will sooner or later encounter trolls or simply ill-wishers who interfere with their work. For this reason, many large-scale Twitch streams usually have moderators who remove objectionable...
Microsoft said it will shut down the Chinese version of professional social networking site LinkedIn. This event marks the end of the work of the last major American social network, which officially operated in the Middle Kingdom. LinkedIn on...
Twitter announced on Tuesday that it plans to support content creators at the Clubhouse-like Spaces with the new Twitter Spaces Spark Program, which runs for three months. Twitter’s plans echo a similar three-month program that Clubhouse...
Facebook is changing the way it calculates user profiles for advertising purposes, which will increase the total number of accounts available to advertisers. This is supposedly necessary to improve user privacy. Bloomberg Previously, the company...
Facebook is doing all it can to compensate for the reputational damage that was caused by the speech of the former employee Frances Haugen in front of the US senators – it revealed the background of the activities of social networks. The vice...
UK children’s digital rights charity 5Rights has filed a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), accusing dozens of major tech companies of systematically putting children at risk online and violating the recently...
Twitter has announced that it is testing a new feature that will help users understand that they are engaging in a conversation that could escalate into conflict. The social network will display clues that will help users determine the degree of...
People familiar with Facebook’s business processes say the social media giant has recently slowed down new product launches. This is due to a multitude of media reports and hearings in the US Congress, the reason for which was the leaked...
Against the background of the day before yesterday a global failure in the work of Facebook’s services, as a result of which the social network of the same name, the Instagram platform and the WhatsApp messenger did not work for several hours...
Instagram has admitted that IGTV, the platform’s first long-term video initiative, hasn’t been successful. So as of today, the company is renaming IGTV to Instagram TV and getting rid of the exclusive IGTV video format. Videos posted to...
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, during an interview on 60 Minutes on CBS, said that she was the informant who provided reporters with data from the company’s internal research, which spoke about the dangers of the social network...
The social network Clubhouse, which provides users with voice communication in separate virtual “rooms”, expands the functionality. Users will be able to record and replay conversations and download 30-second video clips that can be...
According to internal research conducted by Facebook, the content shown on the Instagram accounts of many stars causes self-esteem problems for many of their followers. In particular, we are talking about Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Charli...
Facebook launched an analogue of TikTok – the Reels service became available to all users in the USA
After starting beta testing last month, Facebook today announced the public launch of the Reels short video service for all users of the iOS and Android social network apps in the US. This feature is Facebook’s response to the growing...
Following a court ruling that Australian organizations are responsible for content posted on their social media pages, Warner Media’s CNN has completely banned Australians from accessing its Facebook homepage, CNN International’s page...
TikTok says its proprietary video service has crossed an important milestone. The company says its platform has over one billion monthly active users. The immense popularity of TikTok previously inspired YouTube and Facebook to launch similar...
