social networks
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Facebook Lets Users Restrict Commenting to a Small Circle of Friends
Facebook users will soon get more control over who can comment on their public posts, according to an announcement by the social media giant on Wednesday.
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TikTok Wants To Be QVC For Teens
If you follow the updates on various social platforms for long enough, you start to notice a particular pattern: a product designed for socialising mutating into an attention trap geared towards shopping. We’ve seen it with Instagram. We’ve seen it with Pinterest and Snapchat. So it was only a matter of time before consumerism took…
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The White House Readies Draft Of Executive Order That Could Break The Internet
It appears the Trump administration is drafting an executive order that has the potential to radically change how the content posted on social networks are governed, stripping crucial protections from tech companies and inserting much more government oversight. This is being done under the guise of a popular political talking point claiming that social media…
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Google Can’t Quit Trying To Make New Social Networks
Google has never made a successful social network, but you have to give the company some credit for never giving up. After the shutdown of platforms like Orkut, Google Buzz, and Google+ (and the shuttering of messaging services like Allo and Google Wave) it appears that Google is testing out yet another social network, this…