New ad asks Mark Zuckerberg if Facebook makes his kids proud
[embedded content] When Joe Biden and Donald Trump take to the stage on Thursday for the final presidential debate, someone else will be put in the hot seat: Facebook CEO…
Twitter is still letting you retweet. You don’t have to quote tweet.
There seems to be quite a lot of confusion surrounding some recent updates Twitter made to its platform. Specifically, Twitter changed what happens when you click the “retweet” button. Well,…
Mozilla tells Facebook and Twitter to ‘unfck the internet’ before the U.S. election
Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, is calling on Facebook and Twitter to take action before the U.S. presidential election on November 3. Specifically, Mozilla is…
TikTok makes it clear: QAnon is prohibited on the platform
QAnon is running out of major online platforms where it can spread its conspiracies. In a statement to NPR, the viral video app TikTok has confirmed that it bans accounts…
Twitter’s experiment to get you to read stories actually worked
Twitter says more people are actually opening up articles and reading them thanks to a new notification.
YouTube moves to stop election misinformation. But is it enough?
With less than 40 days until the U.S. presidential election, YouTube has rolled out a number of new tools to deal with voting misinformation on the platform. Will these new…
Facebook’s new policies are meant to stop the spread of conspiracy theories and hate in Groups
For the first time, Facebook is releasing stats concerning how the social media platform moderates what goes on in Facebook Groups. Alongside the new numbers, the company has also announced…
Citing risk of ‘civil unrest,’ Facebook won’t accept new political ads in week before election
Facebook said it won’t accept new political or issue ads in the week before Election Day in November. In a Facebook post on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was…
Twitter takes action against sequel to coronavirus conspiracy film ‘Plandemic’
The sequel is rarely as good as the original, but this one is just as dangerous. Twitter is taking action against the follow-up to the coronavirus conspiracy film, Plandemic, which…
TikTok launches website to fight misinformation about the company
Over the weekend, I was followed by a new official Twitter account run by the viral video app TikTok. At first glance, the account, @tiktok_comms, seems like just an avenue…