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Facebook trials ‘High School Networks’ for Messenger – what could go wrong there?
Facebook is working on ‘High School Networks for Messenger’ to hook in the one market that they’ve struggled to dominate: ...
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Here’s what Facebook’s unsend feature for Messenger might look like
Facebook's promised to implement a revoke message feature for Messenger earlier this month. It looks like the option is almost ...
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Verge coin's own Twitter account is not verified but its imposter's is
It seems Twitter is incapable of putting an end to the rampant cryptocurrency scams on its platforms. Just last week, we ...
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Nigeria’s ruling party may have sold its verified Twitter handle to John McAfee
In one of the most bizarre things on social media in 2018, Nigeria's All Progressives Congress political party seems to have sold its verified Twitter handle which now spots a profile photo and biography of John McAfee. As it stands, the account violates one of Twitter's rules ...
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Snapchat taps community creativity with user-built face Lenses
A few months after Snapchat opened its Lens Studio, allowing anyone to make their own versions of the app's augmented reality filters -- the company today announced it's now allowing its users to make their own face Lenses, a.k.a. the ones Snapchat is famous for. When the Studio ...
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How to spot a fake Instagram influencer
A good influencer should be able to back up their worth with some basic stats at the least, such as how many followers were ...
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We can’t ditch Facebook because of our friends — but there’s a fix
It’s more fashionable than ever to hate on Facebook. But it sure has been a long time coming — the proverbial excrement hit the fan only after the social media helped the Democrats lose the election, showed increasingly just how much they wanted to control information we see, ...
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Opinion: There shouldn't be a 'next Facebook'
Social media networks need to fade into obscurity, it's for the best.
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Tanzania imposes strict social media regulations to stop 'moral decadence'
Tanzania has finally signed into law their eyebrow-raising new regulation that will govern social media and blogging. The ...
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What The Simpsons can teach you about the art of shitposting
A scene from a 1996 episode of The Simpsons recently spawned a fresh clutch of memes across the web, shedding light on a ...
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Twitter takes away @bitcoin from BCH fans and Roger Ver is crying free speech
Yesterday, Twitter briefly suspended the @bitcoin handle on its platform, sparking an outrage among Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters. ...
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An academic ethical review could have prevented the Cambridge Analytica breach
When the Facebook data of 50m users was collected by Cambridge academic Aleksandr Kogan, his actions reportedly came to the ...
