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11 votes
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirms TikTok is under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US following national security concerns
11 votes -
Seventeen-year-old in Tampa, Florida arrested and accused of "masterminding" the compromises of prominent Twitter accounts on July 15, charged with thirty felonies
34 votes -
The main Invidious (YouTube frontend) instance is shutting down and Omar Roth is stepping down as project owner
22 votes -
Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?
15 votes -
Do you (still) use IRC?
I'm just curious how many people still use IRC (Internet Relay Chat) here. And if you use it, what do you use it for? Is there anything (server/channels, etc) that you would recommend to others? I...
I'm just curious how many people still use IRC (Internet Relay Chat) here. And if you use it, what do you use it for? Is there anything (server/channels, etc) that you would recommend to others?
I use it a bit, mostly for casual chatting on tildeverse.org servers, the SDF server, or on Freenode. On Freenode, I also use it when I need to interact with FOSS developers who use IRC as one of their main forms of support.
29 votes -
Former social bookmarking site Del.icio.us appears to be making a return this summer
9 votes -
Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
7 votes -
More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts
8 votes -
I'm on a mass social media detox (Twitter, Instagram, etc.) - What blogs that you read regularly should I check out?
I limited the intake of high volume news and I'm currently taking a break from social media. I've been enjoying to occasionally visit blogs directly as my source of online reading. I tend to enjoy...
I limited the intake of high volume news and I'm currently taking a break from social media. I've been enjoying to occasionally visit blogs directly as my source of online reading. I tend to enjoy short essays, opinions, and honest observations. What blogs have you been following lately that you think are worth taking a look at?
P.s.
If it's your own, please shoot me a direct message: I'd love to check it out.25 votes -
Why Nigerians are muting their mothers on WhatsApp
13 votes -
Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth
9 votes -
Lawyers demand US Military stop violating free speech on Twitch
10 votes -
The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
20 votes -
Facebook has an internal simulation of the site populated entirely by bots that they're using to test the effects of possible changes
8 votes -
Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built
4 votes -
A timeline of Wednesday's epic Twitter hack, and some clues about who may have been behind it
19 votes -
A website that randomly displays YouTube videos with zero views
22 votes -
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
@Twitter Safety: We've been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called 'QAnon' activity across the service.
19 votes -
Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
85 votes -
I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads
36 votes -
Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint
10 votes -
Their Tube - Experience how the YouTube home page would look for six different personas
22 votes -
The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis
20 votes -
Apple, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and other accounts are tweeting a bitcoin scam in giant Twitter hack
49 votes -
Twitter is removing images of an internal tool sources say enables account takeover
11 votes -
The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern
8 votes -
Text-only social network
19 votes -
Soup.io, a tumblr-like blogging platform running since 2007, will shut down and delete all data on July 20, 2020
8 votes -
Letterheads: Social media and the end of discourse
7 votes -
This is why Indian teens kept spamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Instagram with thirsty comments
10 votes -
TikTok is getting caught up in the geopolitical conflict between China and the US
8 votes -
Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
8 votes -
scholar.social: Academic and research-focused microblogging platform
11 votes -
De-escalating social media conflict: Admitting mistakes
12 votes -
What's wrong with WhatsApp? As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own dangers – to those both inside and out
16 votes -
Boycott Facebook
9 votes -
LinkedIn iOS app is copying the contents of the clipboard on every keystroke
13 votes -
Spies, lies, and stonewalling: What it’s like to report on Facebook
5 votes -
Over 400 advertisers hit pause on Facebook, threatening $70 billion juggernaut
8 votes -
Pressure mounts as Starbucks, Coca-Cola join Facebook ad boycott; Facebook updates policy
9 votes -
YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more for hate speech
18 votes -
I joined Parler, the right-wing echo chamber’s new favorite alt-Twitter
27 votes -
Coca-Cola pauses advertising on all social media platforms globally
9 votes -
Anti-Defamation League sends open letter to advertisers, urging them to boycott Facebook due to ads being placed adjacent to hateful content
16 votes -
A social network providing a "dividend" to its users based on usage, original content, and referrals
2 votes -
Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire receives far more Facebook engagement per article than any other publisher, largely driven by a network of deceptive and toxic pages that systematically promote it
15 votes -
Google blew a ten-year lead
27 votes -
Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
17 votes -
Terrible, dangerous EARN IT act set to move forward in the senate; attack on both encryption and free speech online
27 votes