Industry Keyword: Social Networking
Social Networks
Twitter now lets users leave conversations
Despite the ongoing drama surrounding Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of the struggling Silicon Valley-based social media platform, the product development team there have not stopped improving the product.
The platform now allows users that find...
Social Networks
Facebook letting users in Ukraine lock their social profiles for security
Meta Platforms Inc, which owns Facebook, has set up a special operations centre to monitor the conflict in Ukraine, and it launched a feature so users in the country can lock their social media...
Social Networks
Twitter says it mistakenly took down accounts posting on Russian military
Twitter has said it had mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts that were posting about Russian military movements, and said the action was not due to a coordinated bot campaign or mass reporting of...
Social Networks
Trump’s Truth Social tops downloads on Apple App Store; many waitlisted
Former President Donald J Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, has now launched in Apple's App Store, potentially marking the former president's return to social media after he was banned from several platforms...
App Stores
President Trump’s Truth Social app set for release today in the App Store?
Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple's App Store later today, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by journalists, potentially marking the...
Social Networks
Meta’s Facebook to pay $90 million to settle privacy lawsuit over user tracking
Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website.
A proposed preliminary settlement was filed...
Social Networks
US lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to address social media addiction
US Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Cynthia Lummis, a Republican, introduced a bill aimed at addressing addiction to social media platforms like Meta Platform's Facebook or Twitter.
A Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, made a...
Media & Content Platforms
How a China-based dealmaker got shell company for Trump’s deal off the ground
A China-based financier, once reprimanded by US regulators and barred from taking his company public, played a bigger role than is publicly known in the shell company that agreed to merge with former President...
Communication & Collaboration
Australia PM Morrison loses control of WeChat Chinese account
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party lost access to his official WeChat social media account months ago, politicians said on Monday, issuing claims of censorship, while the still-active account being run by a...
Social Networks
Twitter expands feature allowing users to flag misleading tweets
Twitter Inc has said it will expand a feature it has been testing which allows users to flag misleading content on its social media platform to Brazil, Spain and the Philippines.
The company had introduced...
Social Networks
Nigeria lifts Twitter ban from midnight, government official says
Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements with authorities in the West African country, a senior government official...
Communication & Collaboration
Facebook parent’s head of communications leaves company
The head of communications at Facebook parent Meta Platforms, John Pinette, is leaving the company, the social media company said late on Friday.
Chris Norton, vice president of international communications, will cover the role on...