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Spotify Says Controversial ‘Hate Content’ Policy Was ‘Rolled Out Wrong’
Mistakes happen. Yesterday, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek admitted to a rather big one in regards to the company’s controversial “Hate Content and Hateful Conduct” policy. “We rolled this out wrong and could have done a much better job,” said Ek about Spotify’s decision to remove R Kelly and the rappers XXXTentacion and Tay-K from the…
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Apple Is Going To Let You Download All The Data It Collects About You
Apple has announced a new privacy website to help users better navigate just how much of their data is collected by the company, but so far, the feature is only available in Europe.
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Is YouTube Music Already Doomed?
Google isn’t giving up on its quest to get you to pay it for music. That’s the main takeaway from Thursday’s announcement of YouTube Music, a re-imagining of how music-listening works on YouTube. The new streaming service will come in two flavours: a free tier called YouTube Music and a $US10-per-month tier dubbed YouTube Music…
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Twitter Says It Will Start Hiding Tweets That ‘Negatively Impact’ The Service
Twitter in 2018 remains a cesspool of narcissists, scammers, and trolls (I’m not just talking about Kanye West’s mentions). And on Tuesday the service announced its latest attempt to solve that problem. In the coming weeks, Twitter will begin hiding tweets that are “detracting from the conversation.”