Software & Design
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What If Clubhouse, But With State Censorship, TikTok Owner ByteDance Ponders
China’s ByteDance, is planning on launching its own version of audio chat app Clubhouse for the Chinese market, Reuters reported on Thursday.
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Study: Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies
Shocker: Despite conservatives’ endless kvetching about the supposed liberal bias of Silicon Valley technocrats, one of the easiest ways to go viral on Facebook is spouting extreme, far-right rhetoric, according to a new study by New York University’s Cybersecurity for Democracy project.
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‘Frustrated’ Facebook Oversight Board May Seek to Examine Its Algorithm (or ‘Whatever’)
Facebook’s so-called “Supreme Court” is reportedly seeking the company’s permission to examine the underlying machine-learning models that determine which posts are visible or granted the most prominence in each Facebook user’s feed.
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Instagram Rolls Out New Way to Say Something Stupid in Public
Instagram is expanding its livestreaming offerings with a new feature dubbed Live Rooms, which is just like Instagram Live but with up to three more people haphazardly broadcasting their thoughts into the world simultaneously.