October 20, 2021 The U.S. Senate will hold a hearing on October 26 with tech companies Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube on the impact of their platforms on young users, a panel announced on Tuesday. "TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube more...
October 15, 2021 Twitter will begin displaying ads on mobile devices inside conversion threads after the first, third, and eighth replies. The move, which is part of an ongoing plan to test a new ad format and placement more...
October 14, 2021 According to the New York Times, Facebook plans to make some groups on its internal workplace messaging boards about platform security and election protection private - a move the platform wants to take to prevent more...
October 14, 2021 Facebook will now count activists and journalists as "involuntary" public figures, increasing protection against harassment and bullying against these groups. In recent weeks, there has been intense debate about the social media giant's "cross-check" system, more...
October 13, 2021 Democrat Maria Cantwell, Senate Commerce Committee Chair on Tuesday called on Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to keep all documents related to a testimony by whistleblower Frances Haugen last week. "The testimony... raises significant more...
October 12, 2021 Facebook revealed plans to introduce new features, including one that encourages teenagers to take a break while using Instagram. There will also be new controls for adults of teenagers who give parents or guardians the more...
October 7, 2021 A publicly scrapped record of data belonging to over 1.5 billion Facebook users was recently put up for sale on a hacker forum. The stolen data includes names, emails, addresses, locations, gender, phone numbers and more...
October 7, 2021 Twitter has agreed to sell mobile ad company MoPub to AppLovin Corp for $1.05 billion as the microblogging platform aims to focus more on advertising in its own app and website. MoPub, which brought Twitter more...
October 6, 2021 In a recent blog post, Facebook's vice president of engineering, Santosh Janardhan, revealed that the company's engineers issued an order that unintentionally disconnected Facebook's data centers from the rest of the world, causing users to more...
October 6, 2021 Following the recent revelations by whistleblower Frances Haugen, U.S. lawmakers are now calling on regulators to take the necessary action against Facebook. Haugen previously worked as a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team more...
