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TikTok disconnected access to its users in the United States late Saturday shortly before a national ban on the app was to take effect, with President-elect Donald Trump unable to intervene until he takes office.
Jan 19, 2025
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Social media giant TikTok is preparing to shut down its app in the United States this Sunday—the day that legislation signed by President Joe Biden last year banning the app takes effect.
Jan 16, 2025
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Where will TikTok refugees go if the social media platform is banned?
Jan 16, 2025
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French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from Elon Musk's X to rival social platforms such as Bluesky or Mastodon.
Jan 16, 2025
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Meta, the corporation that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it not only plans to replace its professional fact-checking system with user-contribution, but also cut down on many of its diversity schemes ...
Jan 15, 2025
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The US Supreme Court grappled with a challenge on Wednesday to a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors' ages, part of a growing effort to limit access by minors to online sexual content.
Jan 15, 2025
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Meta's decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions. But taken at face value, the changes raise ...
Jan 15, 2025
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With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form ...
Jan 14, 2025
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British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was commissioned by then Conversation ...
Jan 13, 2025
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Social media giant Meta announced Friday it is dismantling its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs across the company, marking another major shift in strategy as it aligns with politically conservative priorities.
Jan 11, 2025
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