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6 votes
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Instagram "Personals" account relaunches as Lex, a dating and social app targeted for people who are lesbian, bisexual, asexual, womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two-spirit and non-binary
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Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
6 votes -
Almost 7000 pages of leaked Facebook documents show how they leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
15 votes -
Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia
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Holy shit, Contra said a thing! Well, guess I better singlehandedly solve BreadTube
10 votes -
After three months offline, 8chan returns as 8kun
24 votes -
Designing Facebook's new company branding
10 votes -
The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
12 votes -
Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex
10 votes -
Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
21 votes -
"Facebook is wrong and I have receipts"—Jedd Legum provides proof Daily Wire is gaming Facebook's algorithm
@juddlegum: 1. UPDATE: So in response to my report that The Daily Wire is gaming Facebook with a network of 14 large pages Facebook released a new statement. Facebook says these are "real pages run by real people" Facebook is wrong and I have receipts https://t.co/z5s3LsOMm3
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Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters
@mikebeas: Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. https://t.co/QMDJyc4uRO
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Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally
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A novel example of namespace clashing in competition between bots
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems. Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who...
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems.
Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who calls it in a reddit comment with the phrase "RemindMe!", has been cloned and iterated upon by another bot, Kzreminderbot, which responds to the exact same trigger phrase. Both bots reply to the comment threads where they are summoned. Kzreminderbot has slightly more diverse features, including email/text notification, but the interesting thing here (I think) is the impotence of the response from the creator of RemindMeBot, who has added a link in their comment replies to send annoyed feedback to the second bot.
We talk occasionally about the scramble for usernames on new services, but this is an slightly novel example of the cascading hierarchies of website design. A feature which reddit lacked is added by a bot, but that bot is too provisional to cover the hole which it was meant to fill.
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How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
4 votes -
There is no algorithm for truth
16 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
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Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
27 votes -
In a new report, Penn State political scientists suggest that radicalization on YouTube is driven by communities that form around right-wing content more than the recommendation engine
11 votes -
Inside /r/Relationships, the unbearably human corner of Reddit
10 votes -
Twitter stock plunges 20% as company blames ad-targeting problems for earnings miss
10 votes -
The alt-right playbook: How to radicalize a normie
27 votes -
The Internet and the Third Estate
5 votes -
Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests
15 votes -
This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
18 votes -
Your options for saving Yahoo Groups content
9 votes -
The trials and process of stop motion automotive restoration
5 votes -
Yahoo Groups will prevent new content from being uploaded on October 28, and all previous content will be deleted on December 14
12 votes -
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's prepared remarks for congressional hearing about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
16 votes -
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
10 votes -
Mastodon 3.0 has been released
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What does PewDiePie really believe? The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it’s all a misunderstanding
23 votes -
TikTok is the latest window into China’s police state
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How the women-only Facebook group Minbar-Shat helped overthrow the Sudanese government
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Facebook launches "Threads from Instagram", a new camera-first messaging app
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Social Networks or Social Nightmares? with Roger McNamee, Max Schrems and Evgeny Morozov
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Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram, then shuts down internet amid civil unrest
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All hands on deck—In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government
11 votes -
Facebook has taken down the popular 'World USA' page with almost 1 million followers after being exposed as a Ukrainian-based operation targeting older Americans with pro-Trump content
9 votes -
Facebook to exempt opinion and satire from fact-checking
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Facebook has taken down the huge "Police Lives Matter" page after being revealed as a Kosovo-based operation pushing misinformation about US cops
23 votes -
The secret list of words causing demonetization by Youtube bots
19 votes -
An interview with the Ukrainians who created the "I Love America" Facebook page
10 votes -
Coalition of charitable and peace-building organisations in Finland crowdsource for 'forgiveness' emoji
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Twitch's latest crackdowns on 'sexual' content are leaving streamers baffled
13 votes -
Facebook’s suspension of ‘tens of thousands’ of apps reveals wider privacy issues
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Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of their ongoing investigation into data misuse
8 votes -
More control over your conversations now available in Japan and the US
3 votes