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• TikTok encouraged moderators to suppress content from those deemed ugly, poor, or overweight

  Chinese video-sharing app TikTok once instructed its moderators to hide posts created by users it deemed to be ugly, poor, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Instagram will place coronavirus advice front and center on your feed

  Instagram may be one of the world's most popular social media services, but unlike Twitter or Facebook, the platform tends to largely remain ambivalent about current events and politics. Not so with coronavirus. As reported by TechCrunch, Instagram will leverage its popularity ...

  • Napier Lopez

• TikTok's learning from YouTube's mistakes and YouTubers should be taken seriously, says researcher

  Chris-Stokel Walker, the author of YouTubers, which looks at the lives of content creators who make a living on the platform, ...

  • Cara Curtis

• AI studies our photos to prove that nature makes us happy

  Researchers from the National University of Singapore proved that nature makes us happy, by using AI to analyze photos on ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This algorithm could improve emergency responses by removing lies spread on Twitter

  An algorithm that filters out misinformation spread on Twitter could help emergency services respond to natural disasters ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Reddit partners with an SMS hotline to help users expressing suicidal thoughts

  Reddit's new partnership with Crisis Text Line will offers users a way to help each other, as reported users will now receive ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How Facebook's new AI system has deactivated billions of fake accounts

  Facebook has unveiled a new machine learning model called DEC that has already detected hundreds of millions of fake accounts ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Reddit CEO says TikTok is ‘spyware’

  Reddit CEO Steve Huffman expressed his dislike for rival social media app TikTok, which he called "fundamentally parasitic." ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Social media conspiracies blame coronavirus on 5G internet

  Conspiracy theorists are infecting YouTube and Facebook with bogus theories that 5G mobile internet is responsible for the ...

  • Bryan Clark

• This Giphy/Jif peanut butter collab over GIF pronunciation is a no-brainer

  Giphy and Jif the peanut butter company are teaming up to settle the debate over how to pronounce "GIF" once and for all. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook uses its ad policies to block apps that compete with its dating service

  Facebook Dating was always doomed to be as dystopian and inhumane as a speech from Mark “I'm not a robot, I swear it” ...

  • Tristan Greene

• George Soros: Zuckerberg is on Trump's side and must be removed

  Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg to "be removed ...

  • Thomas Macaulay