Social Networks Stories for 2020

'Free Speech' Reddit Clone Voat Says It Will Shut Down on Christmas 167
Twitter Will Make Joe Biden's @POTUS Account Start With Zero Followers 151
China Wants Hefty Fines For Viral Video Creators Who Binge Food and Drinks 99
Russia Lawmakers Pass Bills That Could Block Social Media Sites 25
Facebook Says It's Standing Up Against Apple For Small Businesses. Some Of Its Employees Don't Believe It. 37
Facebook's Small Advertisers Say They're Hurt by AI Lockouts 62
Dutch Prosecutors Find a Hacker Did Successfully Log Into Donald Trump's Twitter Account 96
TikTok Has Been Quietly Sending Job Applicants' Personal Data to China 60
Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps 6
French and Russian Trolls Wrestle For Influence In Africa, Facebook Says 34
Reddit Is Buying TikTok Rival Dubsmash 20
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform 134
Twitter Disabled 'Likes' and 'Replies' on False Trump Tweets. Inadvertently. 191
Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company In Departure Notes 104
Twitter App Code Indicates That Live Video Broadcasting App Periscope May Get Shut Down 11
Facebook Hit With Antitrust Probe For Tying Oculus Use To Facebook Accounts 29
YouTube Waits Until a Month After the Election To Act on False Claims of Election Fraud 419
Twitter Users Complain of Timelines Being Overrun With 'Promoted Tweets'; Twitter Says It's Intentional 91
TikTok Misses US Deadline For Sale Without Punishment 36
EU Privacy Rule Would Rein In the Hunt for Online Child Sexual Abuse 66
YouTube Will Remind Users To 'Keep Comments Respectful' Before Posting 117
Facebook Will Take Down Misinformation About Covid Vaccines 147
Reddit Reveals Daily Active User Count For the First Time: 52 Million 78
Google Maps Takes on Facebook With Launch of Its Own News Feed 33
Australia Demands Apology From China After Fake Image of Soldier Posted On Social Media 145
What Hunting Bigfoot Taught a Republican Congressman about Misinformation, Political Extremists, and Grift 180
Conspiracy Theorists Who'd First Popularized QAnon Now Accused of Financial Motives 152
Twitter Will Warn You If You 'Like' Misleading Tweets 175
Facebook Said It Would Ban Holocaust Deniers. Instead, Its Algorithm Provided a Network for Them 62
Social Media Companies All Starting To Look the Same 26
Twitter Verification Returns Early Next Year 21
Solomon Islands Set To Ban Facebook in the Name of 'National Unity' 73
Google, Facebook and Twitter Threaten To Leave Pakistan Over Censorship Law 37
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Align To Fight Covid Vaccine Conspiracies 116
YouTube Will Run Ads On Smaller Creators' Videos Without Paying Them 136
Facebook Estimates Hate Speech Seen In 1 Out of 1,000 Views On Its Platform 95
Facebook Moderators Say Company Is Asking Them To 'Risk Our Lives' 67
Twitter Launches Disappearing 'Fleets' Worldwide 52
Obama Says Social Media Companies 'Are Making Editorial Choices, Whether They've Buried Them in Algorithms or Not' 190
Kickstarter Mistakenly Emails Responses To Complaints From Seven Years Ago 8
MSNBC: Parler Does Censor, Removes Users, and Really Hates Trolling 187
YouTube Criticized For Not Removing Post-Election Misinformation 183
Will Parler Spread Misinformation - or Just Segregate It Onto a Single App? 308
Zuckerberg Says Steve Bannon Has Not Violated Enough Policies For Suspension 153
Facebook Extends Political Ad Ban In US For At Least a Month 51
TikTok Says the Trump Administration Has Forgotten About Trying To Ban it, Would Like To Know What's Up 138
Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages On Facebook 184
Right-Leaning Social Network Parler Tops Free App Charts 288
Election-Related Misinformation on Social Media Still 'Readily Viewable' - If It's In Spanish 44
How Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75 Million On Targeted Anti-Trump Ads 78
Facebook Can't Seem To Do Anything About 'Stop the Steal' Groups 399
Debt Collectors Will Soon Be Allowed To Reach You By Text Or On Facebook 92
Proctoring Software Company Used DMCA To Take Down a Student's Critical Tweets 130
Baby Shark Becomes YouTube's Most-Watched Video of All Time 61
Instagram is Telling Some Users That 'Tomorrow is Election Day' 51
A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can't Crack 93
Inside Facebook The Day Before The Presidential Election 76
Trump's TikTok Ban Temporarily Blocked by US Judge 85
Facebook Says Technical Glitches Improperly Blocked Campaign Ads 49
WhatsApp is Now Delivering Roughly 100 Billion Messages a Day 32
Facebook Is Losing Users In the US and Canada 103
Deleting Your Facebook Account Forfeits Oculus VR Games You Already Paid For 111
Study Shows Which Messengers Leak Your Data, Drain Your Battery, and More 25
Study Shows Which Messengers Leak Your Data, Drain Your Battery, and More 28
Pakistan's PM Asks Facebook To Ban Islamophobic Content 211
Snopes.com Exposes 4chan Campaign to 'Kindle Mistrust in Snopes' 264
Cult Expert Predicts QAnon Adherents Will 'Get Angry and Exit' 343
Twitch Suddenly Mass-Deletes Thousands of Videos, Citing Music Copyright Claims 75
Debian Donates 10,000 Euros to Fund Free and Decentralized Livestreaming 20
Patreon Is Banning QAnon, Joining Facebook, YouTube and Others 172
Facebook Touts Free Speech. In Vietnam, It's Aiding in Censorship 41
FCC Defends Helping Trump, Claims Authority Over Social Media Law 116
Former Google CEO Calls Social Networks 'Amplifiers for Idiots' 98
Instagram's Handling of Kids' Data Is Now Being Probed In the EU 2
What If the Government Ran a Social Network? 190
Stupid Russian Disinformation Campaign Targets Oxford Vaccine 147
China Bans Internet Services Which 'Induce Addiction' In Children 35
FCC Will Move To Regulate Social Media After Censorship Outcry 325
FCC To Move on Trump Plan To Weaken Social Media Legal Shield 247
Senate To Subpoena Twitter CEO Over Blocking of Disputed Biden Articles 580
Twitter, Like Facebook, To Remove Posts Denying the Holocaust 300
Facebook Bans Holocaust Denial On its Platform 229
Software Engineer Catches Intelligent Bot Posting on Reddit 122
Citigroup Tech Executive Unmasked as Major QAnon 'High Priest' 338
Some Onions Were Too Sexy For Facebook 107
New Chinese Browser Offers a Glimpse Beyond the Great Firewall -- With Caveats 23
Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features To Fight Election Misinformation 97
Pakistan Bans TikTok 23
Judge Orders Twitter To Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy 132
France Passes New Law To Protect Child Influencers 48
Facebook Widens Ban On Political Ads As Alarm Rises Over Election 105
Facebook Bans QAnon Across Its Platforms 302
Facebook Removes Trump Post Falsely Saying Flu is More Lethal Than Covid 468
TikTok Users Earned $500,000 Pushing Scam Apps - Until a 12-Year-Old Reported Them 23
Twitter Is Building 'Birdwatch,' a System To Fight Misinformation By Adding More Context To Tweets 42
Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies From COVID-19 308
Facebook Rebuts Netflix Documentary 'The Social Dilemma' 39
At White House's Urging, Republicans Launch Anti-Tech Blitz Ahead of Election 148
Facebook Will Ban Ads That Wrongly Claim Election Victory 145
Facebook Launches Cross-Platform Messaging On Instagram and Messenger 9
26% of US Adults Get Their News From YouTube, Study Finds 139
YouTube Celebrates Deaf Awareness Week By Killing Crowd-Sourced Captions 41
While Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Announce Hate Speech Action, Some Advertisers Remain Skeptical 184
Facebook's Oversight Board Won't Launch In Time To Oversee the Election 22
Twitter Is Bringing Its 'Read Before You Retweet' Prompt To All Users 48
Facebook Critics Take on Its Oversight Board 16
Former Facebook Manager: 'We Took a Page From Big Tobacco's Playbook' 115
Illinois Facebook Users Can Claim Up To $400 In Class-Action Suit 18
Twitter To Start Testing Voice DMs 10
Facebook Vows To Restrict Users if US Election Descends Into Chaos 151
Facebook Will Let People Claim Ownership of Images and Issue Takedown Requests 26
Apparent Racial Bias Found in Twitter Photo Algorithm 119
Facebook Threatens To Pull Out of Europe If It Doesn't Get Its Way 217
With New Security and Free Internet Issues, What Did the TikTok Deal Really Achieve? 116
US Judge Blocks Attempt to Ban WeChat 140
Chinese Intelligence Compiles 'Vast Database' About Millions Around the World 75
US Teens Are Being Paid to Spread Disinformation on Social Media 204
Last-Minute TikTok Deal Averts Shutdown 105
Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras 58
Facebook Issues New Rules On Internal Employee Communication 124
Facebook Will Stop Recommending Health Groups 38
FBI Director: It's a Mistake To Get Election Information on Social Media 77
Twitter Orders Politicians, Journalists To Fortify Passwords Before Election 32
Hate Speech on Facebook Is Pushing Ethiopia Dangerously Close To a Genocide 170
A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation 52
TikTok Reveals Details of How Its Algorithm Works 14
Facebook Returns To Its Roots With Campus, a College Student-only Social Network 29
TikTok, US Discuss Ways To Avoid Sale 15
Facebook Will Pay Users To Log Off Before 2020 Election 67
On Twitter Usernames With Lots of Numbers 49
Former Mentor Says Mark Zuckerberg Intoxicated by Power, Calls Disinformation 'A National Security Issue' 165
Jaron Lanier Thinks Things May Have Gotten Better, or Facebook 'Might Have Won Already' 75
Facebook Halts Oculus Quest Sales In Germany Amid Privacy Concerns 27
Facebook Won't Accept New Ads The Week Before The Election -- But Older Ads With Lies Are Still OK 240
A Saudi Prince's Attempt To Silence Critics On Twitter 30
Facebook and Google Serve As Vectors For Misinformation While Hobbling Local Journalism and Collecting Taxpayer Subsidies, Group Says 43
Cory Doctorow's New Book Explains 'How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism' 76
Discord Looks To Grow Beyond Its Gaming Roots 52
Facebook To Pay More Than $110 Million In Back Taxes In France 42
Telegram Messaging App Proves Crucial To Belarus Protests 21
Facebook's 'Independent' Fact Checks Face Quiet Political, Financial Pressures 106
235 Million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube User Profiles Exposed In Massive Data Leak 19
QAnon Groups Hit by Facebook Crack Down 242
Facebook is a 'Major Threat' To Public Health, Report Warns 102
Spies in Silicon Valley: Twitter Breach Tied To Saudi Dissident Arrests 10
The Attack That Broke Twitter Is Hitting Dozens of Companies 32
Facebook Wanted to Be a Force for Good in Myanmar. Now It Is Rejecting a Request to Help With a Genocide Investigation 57
Facebook Algorithm Found To 'Actively Promote' Holocaust Denial 176
A Third of TikTok's US Users May Be 14 or Under, Raising Safety Questions 39
'All Of My TikTok Followers Are Fake' 79
Facebook Launches Hub To Help Users With US Poll Related Information 28
Facebook Removed Seven Million Posts In Second Quarter For False Coronavirus Info 169
Twitter's Reply-Limiting Feature is Now Available To Everyone 48
Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares With Authorities In the US 27
Could Twitter Outbid Microsoft for TikTok? 21
Cringely Predicts the U.S. Can't Stop WeChat 134
Facebook Removes QAnon Conspiracy Group With 200,000 Members 188
Why We Have a 'TikTok Problem' 85
Facebook Removes Trump Post For the First Time 291
Twitter Says Security Flaw May Have Exposed Android Users' Direct Messages 5
YouTube Bans Thousands of Chinese Accounts To Combat 'Coordinated Influence Operations' 187
Facebook Must Better Police Online Hate, State Attorneys General Say 132
Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads 23
FCC Chair Says Agency Will Take Public Comment on Trump Social Media Petition 46
Larry King Duped Into 'Disinfomercial' on Social Media By China (and Possibly Russia) 100
While Some Top Creators Abandon TikTok, the ACLU Opposes a Ban 135
Twitter Permanently Bans White Supremacist David Duke 393
Twitter Says High-Profile Hack Was the Result of a Phishing Attack 23
US Adults Who Mostly Rely On Social Media For News Are Less Informed, Exposed To More Conspiracies: Study 193
TikTok's New CEO Says Company Will Reveal How Its Algorithms Work 12
Misleading Virus Video, Pushed By the Trumps, Spreads Online 566
Trump's Plan To Regulate Social Media 292
Twitter Temporarily Limits Donald Trump Jr.'s Account 270
Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!' 354
Twitter's Security Woes Included Broad Access To User Accounts 20
Facebook Criticized For Temporarily Blocking Entire Domain 'Dreamwidth.org' 41
Trump and Biden Attack Social Media - By Running Ads on Social Media 168
Bill Gates Has a Message For Conspiracy Theorists 221
More Than 1,000 People at Twitter Had Ability To Aid Hack of Accounts 29
Twitter Is Considering Subscriptions Amid An Advertising Slump 68
Former Facebook Engineer Says That the Company Has Enshrined Failure in Its Policies 204
AI System Detects Posts By Foreign 'Trolls' On Facebook and Twitter 62
Harmful Lies Spread Easily in the UK Because the Nation Lacks a Law To Regulate Social Media, Study Concludes 249
Twitter Takes Down 7,000 Accounts Linked To QAnon 277
TikTok Plans To Add 10,000 Jobs in US as Trump Admin Considers Banning It 75
Ukraine President Plugs 15-Year-Old Film To Free Hostages 34
Facebook Overrides Fact-Checks When Climate Science Is 'Opinion' 225
Your 'Doomscrolling' Breeds Anxiety. Health Experts Offer Ways To Stop the Cycle 74
Hoax That Fooled Armed Protesters Was Created By a Socialist Troll on Food Stamps 281
What Twitter's Worst Hack Means For Its Bottom Line 42
Who's Behind Wednesday's Epic Twitter Hack? 75
DNC and RNC Warn Campaigns About Using TikTok 79
Cancer Patient Complains: My Facebook Feed Is Full of 'Alternative Care' Ads 207
TikTok Pulls Out of Hong Kong 41
Is Twitter Shifting the Balance of Power From Companies to Their Employees? 64
Police Surveilled Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr 68
Facebook Considers Political-Ad Blackout Ahead of US Election 59
TikTok Traders Are Pumping Joke Cryptocurrency Dogecoin -- and the Price is Up 95% 29
US is 'Looking at' Banning TikTok and Chinese Social Media Apps, Pompeo Says 140
How Google Docs Became the Social Media of the Resistance 129
Venture Capitalists' Critiques of Journalism Secretly Leaked to Journalists 118
Hundreds of Armed US Counter-Protesters Fall for 'Apparent Hoax' 390
Woman Who Harassed Starbucks Barista Now Wants Half the Money He Raised 229
Is Slashdot the Answer to Facebook's Fake News Problem? 284
Is Our Technology Literally Changing Our Brains? 28
Facebook, Twitter, Google Face Free-Speech Test in Hong Kong 62
Facebook Is Shutting Down TikTok Clone Lasso and Pinterest Rival Hobbi 16
Microsoft Pauses Spending on Facebook, Instagram 33
Twitch Temporarily Bans President Trump 296
Reddit Finally Bans Hate Speech, Removes 2,000 Racist and Violent Forums 334
Starbucks Worker Insisting Customers Wear Masks Rewarded With $70K On GoFundMe 331
Apple 'Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users', Claims Forbes 61
As Advertisers Revolt, Facebook Commits To Flagging 'Newsworthy' Political Speech That Violates Policy 58
A New Card Ties Your Credit To Your Social Media Stats 104
Facebook Creates Fact-Checking Exemption for Climate Deniers 257
Twitter Flags Trump Tweet of Protesters For Including 'Threat of Harm' 382
K-Pop Stans' Trump Prank Ratchets Up the Internet Wars 346
Facebook and Twitter Remove Manipulated Video From Trump's Accounts After DMCA Complaint 202
Twitter Labels Trump Tweet As 'Manipulated Media' 404
Facebook Takes Down Trump Ads Featuring Symbol Used By Nazis To Mark Political Prisoners 440
Racism Is Rampant on Reddit, and Its Editors Are in Open Revolt 421
Facebook To Let Users Turn Off Political Ads 58
Justice Dept. Urges Rolling Back Legal Shield for Tech Companies 247
Twitter Adds Ability To Record Audio in Tweets 30
Americans Don't Trust Content Decisions Made By Social Media Giants, Study Says 89
Super Secretive Russian Disinfo Operation Discovered Dating Back To 2014 102
Snapchat Firm Unveils Platform Plan To Take On Google and Apple 10
Facebook Says it Doesn't Need News Stories For Its Business and Won't Pay To Share Them in Australia 32
On Twitter, President Trump Tries -- and Fails -- To Target Comcast 232
How an Online Mob Doxxed an Innocent Man 158
Twitter Deletes Over 170,000 Accounts Tied To Chinese Propaganda Efforts 48
New FreeBSD Code of Conduct 150
Zoom Confirms Beijing Asked It To Suspend Activists Over Tiananmen Square Meetings 145
Facebook Brings Back Chris Cox, a Former Top Lieutenant To Zuckerberg 7
New Twitter Feature Nags You For Sharing Articles Without Opening Them 77
Zoom Closes Account of US-Based Chinese Activist After Tiananment Event 160
WhatsApp Was Exposing Users' Phone Numbers in Google Search 15
Slashback: Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar To Hunger 105
Apple Should Acquire DuckDuckGo To Put Pressure On Google Search, Analyst Argues 94
Twitter To Launch a Revamped Verification System With Publicly Documented Guidelines 20
Facebook Moderators Join Criticism of Zuckerberg Over Trump Stance 221
When the Police Get Filmed, Is There More Accountability? 269
Reddit's CEO Promises More Moderator Involvement in Shaping Corporate Policy 115
People Try To Do Right By Each Other, No Matter the Motivation, Study Finds 96
Facebook Tool To Export Pictures To Google Photos Now Available 11
And That's Really It For Google+ 29
Reddit Co-founder Ohanian Resigns From Board, Urges Company To Replace Him With a Black Candidate 288
Instagram Just Threw Users of Its Embedding API Under the Bus 68
Facebook To Block Ads From State-Controlled Media Entities In the US 36
Snapchat To Stop Promoting Trump's Content 254

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