Twitter Launches Lists as Alternate Swipeable Timelines on iOS. After first announcing its experiment with adding lists as alternate, swipeable tweet feeds back in June, Twitter is now rolling the option out to all users on iOS. As you can see in this example, users will now be able to pin up to five selected lists […]
Twitter Outlines New Financial Scam Policy. While Twitter has always had a spam policy in place, up till now, it hasn’t had a specific set of rules for financial scams and people using the platform in an attempt to dupe unsuspecting tweeters. Now, Twitter’s seeking to address this, with the introduction of a new set of rules focused on […]
Facebook Says That it’s Suspended ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps in Post-Cambridge Analytica Investigation Early last year, when the Cambridge Analytica scandal first broke, Facebook announced a full review of every app which could have possibly been granted the same data access that Cambridge Analytica had, in order to ensure that it plugged all the loopholes and addressed […]
WhatsApp ‘Exploited’ By Hong Kong Police To Collect Intelligence—Accounts Suspended In another blunt message to China, Facebook has slapped down attempts by the police in Hong Kong to use its WhatsApp messaging platform to collect intelligence on the pro-democracy protests. The plan had been to let members of the public message in photos and videos […]
YouTube Removed Over 100K Videos and 17K Channels in Q2 2019. YouTube detailed the work it put into removing harmful content last quarter, revealing over 100,000 individual videos were removed. That number represents a 5x increase in video removals from Q1 to Q2. In addition, over 17,000 channels and 500 million comments were removed in the same […]
