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Social Networks
Twitter-funded social media project Bluesky adds Jack Dorsey to board
Bluesky, a Twitter Inc-funded project that is seeking to rebuild how social media companies operate, said on Monday Twitter co-founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey will join the company's board.
Bluesky is working to...
Media & Content Platforms
EU and tech giants boost cooperation on fighting online hate
European justice ministers and tech giants Google's and Meta have agreed that a clear legal framework was needed to step up cooperation against online hate, France's justice minister said.
Social media and online platforms face...
Communication & Collaboration
Meta’s share price wipe-out shakes world tech stocks
Shares of Facebook owner Meta plummeted 26% on Thursday, the biggest single-day slide in market value for a US company, after the social media giant issued a dismal forecast, blaming Apple Inc's privacy changes...
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...
App Stores
Apple pulls Wordle knockoffs from App Store
Apple Inc said on Wednesday it has removed from its App Store several knockoffs of Wordle, a website-only word game that has seen a recent surge in popularity thanks to celebrities.
The once-a-day online word...
Communication & Collaboration
WhatsApp co-founder Acton named Signal’s interim CEO
Messaging app Signal's founder and CEO Moxie Marlinspike will step down and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton will become the interim CEO, Marlinspike said in a blog post.
"It's a new year, and I've decided it's...
Social Networks
Twitter convenes a team to prepare for Capitol riot anniversary
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the storming of the US Capitol, Twitter convened a team to prepare the social networking site to address any harmful content associated with the event, the company told...
Social Networks
Facebook appeals UK ruling that it must sell Giphy
Facebook-owner Meta is appealing the UK's ruling that it must sell animated images platform Giphy, saying the evidence does not support the finding that the deal is a threat to its rivals or could...
Communication & Collaboration
Russia fines Twitter for not deleting banned content, says court
A Moscow court has said it had fined Twitter 3 million roubles (approximately $40,920) for failing to delete content Russia deems illegal, the latest in a string of penalties against foreign technology firms.
Moscow has...
Social Networks
Why Trump’s $1 billion capital raise was so popular
Former US President Donald Trump's new venture inked the second-largest ever private placement with convertible stock for a merger with a blank-check acquisition firm, according to SPAC Research, thanks to its unusually favourable terms...
Communication & Collaboration
Russia fines Twitter, along with Meta and TikTok over banned content
Russia fined Twitter, Facebook owner Meta Platforms and TikTok on Thursday for failing to delete content the government deems illegal, a Moscow court said, the latest in a string of penalties against foreign technology...