After a brief honeymoon, China appears to have blocked a popular, invite-only audio app called Clubhouse. The iPhone-only app had seen a surge in users over the weekend as users …
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Myanmar Internet Providers Block Facebook Services After Government Order
Internet providers in Myanmar, including state-owned telecom MPT, were blocking access to Facebook Inc.-owned services in the country on Thursday, days after military leaders seized power in a coup.A letter …
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Amazon.com Inc. on Tuesday said founder Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO and become executive chairman, as the company reported its third consecutive record profit and quarterly sales above …
your ads here!Downdetector: Social Media Platform Reddit Hit by Outages in US
Social media company Reddit was experiencing problems on its website on Saturday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com. Customers reported trouble logging in and sending messages on its website. …
your ads here!Facebook Oversight Board Announces First 5 Rulings
Facebook’s quasi-independent oversight board has ruled the social media company must restore four of five posts that it had taken down.The cases involved Facebook’s policy regarding adult nudity, hate speech …
your ads here!Facebook Says it Will Permanently Stop Recommending Political Groups to Users
Facebook Inc’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday the company would no longer recommend civic and political groups to users of the platform.The social media company said in October that …
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Facebook’s profits surged in the final three months of last year as people enduring the holidays in a pandemic turned to the leading social network for work and pleasure, the …
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People from Boston to the Washington area were reporting internet outages or slow service Tuesday. According to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages, users reported problems with Verizon, Google, Zoom, YouTube, Slack and …
your ads here!EU Leader Urges US to Join Digital ‘Rule Book”’
The European Union (EU) Tuesday called upon the United States to join the alliance in creating a common rule book to rein in the power of internet companies like Facebook …
your ads here!Twitter to Crowdsource Content Policing
Twitter on Monday unveiled a new tool it is piloting to combat misinformation. Called Birdwatch, the crowdsourcing tool aims to enlist other Twitter users to vet tweets they think contain misinformation.Instead of …
your ads here!Twitter Bans Suspect Iran Account After Post Threatens Trump
Twitter said Friday it has permanently banned an account that some in Iran believe is linked to the office of the country’s supreme leader after a posting that seemed to …
your ads here!Judge Says Amazon Won’t Have to Restore Parler Web Service
Amazon won’t be forced to immediately restore web service to Parler after a federal judge ruled Thursday against a plea to reinstate the fast-growing social media app, which is favored …
your ads here!Google Seals Content Payment Deal with French News Publishers
Google and a French publishers lobby said Thursday that they had agreed to a copyright framework for the U.S. tech giant to pay news publishers for content online, a first …
your ads here!Facebook Oversight Panel to Review Suspension of Trump’s Accounts
Facebook’s independent oversight board said Thursday that it had accepted the company’s request to review its decision to suspend the accounts of former President Donald Trump.The U.S. social media giant …
your ads here!Twitter Says It Locked Account of China’s US Embassy Over Xinjiang-Related Tweet
Twitter has locked the account of China’s U.S. embassy for a tweet that defended China’s policies in the Xinjiang region, which the U.S. social media platform said violated the firm’s …
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When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th U.S. president Wednesday, he inherited several social media accounts, including the @POTUS, @WhiteHouse, @FLOTUS and @VP Twitter accounts. Unlike after …
your ads here!Palestinian High-Tech Sector Takes Off
In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinian high-tech startups are flourishing. Some are branches of international companies, others are all Palestinian. High-tech also offers new possibilities for …
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Take a ride on a new kind of bike — one that skirts across lakes and waterways – powered by an electric engine and a battery. Michelle Quinn got a ride.Camera: Michelle …
your ads here!Turkey Hits Twitter, Pinterest with Advertising Bans
Turkey imposed advertising bans Tuesday on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest for not complying with a new law requiring social media companies to appoint a local representative to handle content removal …
your ads here!Parler Partially Reappears with Support from Russian Technology Firm
Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right, has partially returned online with the help of a Russian-owned technology company.Parler vanished from the internet when …
your ads here!Should Social Media Platforms Lose Legal Protection?
The decision by social media giants to police more content, along with banning U.S. President Donald Trump and some of his supporters from posting, is intensifying a debate in Europe …
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Europe’s populist leaders are outraged by the decision of U.S. social-media giants to block U.S. President Donald Trump from posting on their sites. They fear Facebook, Twitter and other major …
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