White House launches new app to tackle online censorship and pushes for a ban on Huawei
The US government made some big moves yesterday to ramp up its war with social media and tech giants over censorship and cyber-security concerns.
New WhatsApp feature allows you to opt out of groups
A long-awaited feature is coming to WhatsApp which will allow you to opt-out of being automatically added to WhatsApp groups. It's about time.
Social Media sites fight to keep extremist content of New Zealand mass shooting offline
Social Media companies showed that they are not all evil, as they all came together to block extremist views from the recent mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Facebook services still appear to be down in many countries
Countries from around the world have reported a series of outages on Facebook applications.
Twitter is working on a feature that lets you control your conversation thread
There has been a surge in recent times of tech companies cracking down on their user-based content and how it is moderated. With YouTube taking a stand against videos and channels that they deem inappropriate, it has now emerged that Twitter is looking to introduce the option to hide replies to a tweet. The “Hide Tweet” option would give users …
The end is nigh for Google+; data to be wiped starting from April
When Google announced back in December 2018 that they would be formally shutting down Google+, did anyone actually take note? Yeah, me neither. But the end has been coming for some time, with the announcement coming as result of the platform’s plummeted usage statistics, as well as a security flaw that threatened the personal information of some 52.5 million users. …
Facebook to launch a new petitions feature
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that is deigned to bring the average person closer to its government. You just know this feature is likely not to end well.
YouTube looking to delete a whole host of spam accounts on their system
YouTube is implementing new measures that will hopefully see many fake accounts removed from their system and level the playing when it comes to fair monetisation for creators.
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