Social Media

Social media firm TikTok has announced that it is "in the process" of removing harmful content from its app, particularly videos of a challenge that went viral among UAE youth, which requires participants to strangle themselves or their…
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The rumors surfaced a few days ago, and it turns out they were true: Google is buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion in cash. The two companies just announced the deal today. Fitbit will be folded into Google, and that means it will be making a…
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Facebook plans to launch a dedicated "news" tab that will offer its users access to news stories from hundreds of news organizations, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The move returns Facebook to the news-delivery business, putting…
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In case it wasn't clear already, Mark Zuckerberg really isn't a fan of TikTok. During a speech at Georgetown University, the Facebook CEO had some forceful criticism for rival app TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.…
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After three consecutive quarters of stalling (or negative) user growth in 2018, Snapchat is firmly heading in the right direction in 2019. the most recent figures, reported this week for Q3, show a jump of 7 million DAUs from Q2. Looking…
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Apparently the new Joker movie has had quite an impact all over the world. For one social media star in particular, who caught a bout of contagious laughter, simply seeing Joker was not enough - he wanted to be him. Ebraheem Hababi…
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In his speech Thursday at Georgetown University on free speech, Mark Zuckerberg briefly called out Facebook’s young Chinese-owned competitor TikTok. “While our services like WhatsApp are used by protesters and activists everywhere due to…
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Facebook wants to know whether its users would prefer like, reaction, and video view counts to be hidden from posts — and, starting today, it's already testing this in Australia. A company spokesperson told TechCrunch that this is a…
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Facebook's attempt to clean up its platform has revealed its developer problems are about much more than just Cambridge Analytica. The company has suspended "tens of thousands" of apps from its platform as the result of its investigation…
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Every year at DMEXCO, 41,000 visitors, around 1,000 exhibitors and more than 550 speakers from all over the world come together in Cologne to set the digital agenda of tomorrow today. In a recent DMEXCO community survey, Artificial…
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