Social Networks Stories for 2021

How Chinese Police Track Critics on Twitter and Facebook 61
Schools Across US Cancel Classes Over Unconfirmed TikTok Threats 44
TikTok Is Testing a Desktop Streaming Software Called TikTok Live Studio 13
Reddit Files To Go Public 33
Federal Court Blocks Texas' Unconstitutional Social Media Law 292
Judges Read Capitol Rioters' Social Media Posts, Gave Them Stricter Sentences 424
Two US Senators Urge Federal Investigations Into Facebook About Safety - and Ad Reach 6
What's Behind the 'Birds Aren't Real' Protests? 169
New Social Media Transparency Bill Would Force Facebook To Open Up To Researchers 22
Trump Got Free Speech Wrong in Suit Over Ban, Twitter Says 272
Meta Opens Up Access To Its VR Social Platform Horizon Worlds 22
Instagram's Boss Faces Congress' Questions on Harm To Teens 22
Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Would-Be Slack Rival Quill 14
Activist Facebook Group Shuts Down Marketers Selling Dangerous 'Magic Dirt' on Facebook 204
Those Cute Cats Online? They Help Spread Misinformation 171
Debt Collectors Can Now Text, Email and DM You On Social Media 66
Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based On Mastodon 228
Meta Builds Tool To Stop the Spread of 'Revenge Porn' 94
Reddit Introduces New Real-Time Features To Keep Users Engaged 32
Twitter Expands Safety Policy, Bans Posting Images of People Without Their Consent 126
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Steps Down 49
Notifications Are Driving Us Crazy. 111
The Head of Instagram Agrees To Testify as Congress Probes the App's Effects on Young People 13
Gizmodo Is Making the Facebook Papers Public 45
Programmer Restores YouTube Dislike Counts With Browser Extension 72
Fifty Percent of Facebook Messenger's Total Voice Traffic Comes from Cambodia. Here's Why 29
The US Department of Homeland Security Urges 'Digital Literacy' 56
How Should Facebook Be Fixed? 171
Slashdot Asks: Should YouTube Remove the Dislike Count? 141
Coinbase Goes Social by Letting Users Tout Crypto Allocations 16
Three Out of Four Adults Think Facebook Is Making Society Worse, Poll Finds 159
YouTube is Removing the Dislike Count on All Videos Across its Platform 148
Missing 16-Year-Old Rescued After Driver Recognizes Her Viral 'Distress' Hand Gesture From TikTok 76
Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360 Million Users, Company Surveys Suggest 41
To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants To Build Stores 52
Low-Tech Video Game Streams Are Taking Off On TikTok 14
Richard Dawkins, Jimmy Wales - Unlike Facebook, No One Gets Special Treatment on Wikipedia 212
Did Trump's Truth Social Network Skirt US Securities Law? 158
Mastodon Puts Trump's Social Network On Notice For Improperly Using Its Code 134
How Facebook Plans To Build Its Metaverse 38
TikTok Tells US Lawmakers It Does Not Give Info To China 33
Tech's Message To the Hill: We're Not Facebook 43
Facebook Says It's Refocusing Company on 'Serving Young Adults' 173
'Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy' 152
Apple Once Threatened Facebook Ban Over Mideast Maid Abuse 90
How Misinformation - and One Facebook Group - Threatened a Federal Investment in Montana 248
Trump's Truth App Bans Criticism of Itself - and Also 'Excessive Use of Capital Letters' 225
Trump's TRUTH Social May Violate Terms of Open-Source Code It's Built On 254
Twitter Algorithms Amplify Right-leaning Political Content More Than Left-leaning, Company Says Citing Own Research 137
Donald Trump To Launch Social Media Platform Called Truth Social 387
Facebook is Planning To Rebrand the Company With a New Name 132
Doctors Blame TikTok For Surge In Teen Girls Experiencing Tics 60
New Internal Documents Contradict Facebook's Claims that AI Can Enforce Its Rules 71
Researchers Show Facebook's Ad Tools Can Target a Single User 23
One of Facebook's Earliest Investors Says People Have Lost Trust in Company 57
Groups Launch 'How To Stop Facebook' Effort 53
The Intercept Reveals Facebook's Secret Blacklist of 'Dangerous Individuals and Organizations' 71
Snapchat is Boosting Its Efforts To Root Out Drug Dealers 45
Former Facebook Staffers React to Company's Unapologetic Response to Whistleblower 70
Instagram Ditches the IGTV Brand, Combines Everything But Reels Into An 'Instagram Video' Format 9
US Lawmakers Demand Facebook Probes; Whistleblower Says Children Harmed 100
Call Center-Pranking 'Scambaiters' Amass Millions of Fans on Social Media 85
Facebook Whistleblower Speaks, Shares Documents on Deliberate Lies and Disregard of Misinformation, Contacts US Regulators 151
'The Big Delete:' Inside Facebook's Crackdown in Germany 78
TikTok Launches First Creator-Led NFT Collection 11
Secret Military Aircraft Possibly Exposed On TikTok 86
Facebook's Effort To Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show 36
YouTube 'Valuable' For Teens' Mental Health, Says CEO 57
Facebook is Spending $50 Million To 'Responsibly' Build the Metaverse 25
Facebook is Hitting the Brakes on Instagram for Kids 38
TikTok Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Active Users 20
What Happened When Germany Tried to Fight Online Hate Speech? 236
'Facebook Is What's Wrong With America' 208
TikTokers Are Trading Stocks By Copying What Members of Congress Do 91
No More Apologies: Inside Facebook's Push To Defend Its Image 90
The Chinese Version of TikTok Is Limiting Kids To 40 Minutes a Day 91
Peter Thiel Claims Zuckerberg Agreed To Push 'State-Sanctioned Conservatism' Under Trump Deal 133
Twitter To Pay $809.5 Million To Settle 2016 Lawsuit Over Growth Projections 6
Bad for your Health? Salesforce CEO Argues Facebook 'is the New Cigarettes' 79
WSJ: Facebook's 2018 Algorithm Change 'Rewarded Outrage'. Zuck Resisted Fixes 54
Instagram Boss Says Social Media is Like Cars: People Are Going To Die 115
Kazakhstan Moves To Restrict Foreign Social Media Usage 23
Congress Will Investigate Claims That Instagram Harms Teens 50
Russia Fines Facebook, Twitter for Not Deleting Banned Content 57
Twitter Reopens Its Account Verification Process After Another Pause 16
Facebook's Own Research Shows Instagram Is Harmful To Teens, Report Says 19
Facebook: Some High-Profile Users 'Allowed To Break Platform's Rules' 74
Brazil's President Bans Social Networks From Removing Some Posts 82
Inside the Shadowy World of Disinformation-for-Hire in Kenya 26
Pro-China Misinformation Operation Attempting To Exploit US Covid Divisions, Report Says 86
New Texas Law Tries Making it Illegal for Social Media Sites to Ban Users Over Political Viewpoints 469
UK.gov Is Launching An Anti-Facebook Encryption Push 33
LAPD Officers Told To Collect Social Media Data on Every Civilian They Stop 195
Facebook is Subcontracting Its Content Moderation for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars 48
How Far Can You Go to Resist Filmers of a Viral Video? 350
Twitter For iOS Beta Lays Groundwork For Bitcoin Tips 29
Reddit Bans Anti-Vax Subreddit After Site-Wide Protest 218
Twitter Will Auto-Block Harassers in Bid To Curb Abuse 88
Reddit's Teach-the-Controversy Stance On COVID Vaccines Sparks Wider Protest 582
LinkedIn is Shutting Down Stories 21
Telegram Tops 1 Billion Downloads 46
Calls Grow to Discipline Doctors Spreading Virus Misinformation Online 450
The Most Popular Posts On Facebook Are Plagiarized 40
Facebook Used Facial Recognition Without Consent 200K Times, Says Watchdog 13
Reddit Responds To Calls From Moderators To Fight Disinformation 331
Ethiopia To Build Local Rival To Facebook, Other Platforms 31
Facebook Relents, Releases Report that Makes Them Look Bad 54
Facebook Suppressed Report That Made It Look Bad 69
Facebook Wants You To Hold Your Next Meeting in VR 76
ByteDance, TikTok's Parent Company, Joins the Open Invention Network 12
Reddit Is Quietly Rolling Out a TikTok-Like Video Feed Button On iOS 12
WhatsApp and Other Social Media Platforms Restricted in Zambia Amid Ongoing Elections 20
Twitter Algorithm Prefers Slimmer, Younger, Light-Skinned Faces 45
TikTok Overtakes Facebook As World's Most Downloaded App 15
Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's Account for One Week 334
Twitter Now in Compliance With India's New IT Rules, Government Says 10
The Lucrative Business of Spreading Vaccine Misinformation is Being Crowdfunded 155
350 Fake Social Media Accounts Found Pushing Pro-China Propaganda 44
Russia May Be Spreading Vaccine Misinformation to Undermine Efforts to Immunize People 277
Facebook's WhatsApp Takes Aim At Apple Over Child Safety Software Plan 51
Scammer Service Will Ban Anyone From Instagram For $60 53
Google+ Class Action Starts Paying Out $2.15 For G+ Privacy Violations 15
Facebook Cuts Off NYU Researcher Access, Prompting Rebuke From Lawmakers 36
Social Media Giants Failing To Remove Most Antisemitic Posts 140
Facebook Researchers Hope To Bring Together Two Foes: Encryption and Ads 53
To Fight Vaccine Misinformation, US Recruits an 'Influencer Army' 314
Zoom Agrees to $85M Settlement in Possible Class Action Over Data-Sharing, Zoombombing 15
Facebook's Next Hardware Launch Will Be Its Ray-Ban 'Smart Glasses' 30
EFF Sues US Postal Office For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program 57
Instagram Makes Under-16s' Accounts Private By Default 12
Facebook Creates New Unit To Build a 'Metaverse' 42
A Grandfather Died in 'Swatting' Over His Twitter Handle, Officials Say 141
Facebook Pauses Sales of the Oculus Quest 2 Due To Face Irritation Concerns 34
'Disinformation for Hire' is Becoming a Booming Industry 148
Facebook is Now Aggressively Courting a New Partner: Churches 126
YouTube Stars Were Offered Money to Spread Vaccine Misinformation 255
Snapchat Is Growing Faster Than It Has In Years 22
Democratic Bill Would Suspend Section 230 Protections When Social Networks Boost Anti-vax Conspiracies 282
How TikTok Sees Inside Your Brain 37
Clubhouse Is Now Out of Beta and Open To Everyone 31
Twitter is Killing Fleets, Its Expiring Tweets Feature 14
Reddit Orders 'SaveVideo' Bot To Shut Down Or Face Lawsuit 44
Jordan's Government Used Secretly Recorded Clubhouse Audio To Spread Disinformation 13
Ask Slashdot: Because of Social Media, Are We Reading Fewer Books? 136
Twitter Has Lost Liability Protection in India, Government Says 185
Judge Blocks Florida Law That Would Punish Social Media Companies for Banning Politicians 254
Twitter Considers New Features For Tweeting Only To Friends, Under Different Personas and More 11
Norway Law Forces Influencers To Label Retouched Photos On Instagram 69
Instagram is 'No Longer a Photo-Sharing App,' Says Its Head 36
Former Trump Aide Jason Miller To Launch New Social App 'Gettr' Backed by Fugitive Chinese Billionaire 170
Putin Signs Law Forcing Foreign Social Media Giants To Open Russian Offices 58
'Golden Age of Surveillance', as Police Make 112,000 Data Requests in 6 Months 98
Will America's Top Court Protect Free Speech Online for Teenagers? 88
TikTok Insiders Say Social Media Company Is Tightly Controlled By Chinese Parent ByteDance 30
After Repeatedly Promising Not To, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups To Its Users 32
AWS Has Acquired Encrypted Messaging Service Wickr 13
Facebook Launches Its Clubhouse Clone 12
A Real Estate Mogul Will Spend $100 Million to Fix Social Media Using Blockchain 93
Twitter Accused of 'Deliberately' Defying Indian Government's New Social Media Rules 85
Amazon Blames Social Media for Struggle With Fake Reviews 73
Facebook Accounts For Over Half of Sex Trafficing Recruitment 135
Reddit Ends Secret Santa Gift-Giving Platform 28
Russia Puts the Squeeze on Social Media to Police Its Critics 66
A Big Chunk of the Internet Goes Offline Because of a Faulty CDN Provider 157
'TikTok Detected My ADHD Before I Did' 94
Trump Will Remain Off Facebook For At Least Two Years 244
Nigeria Suspends Twitter Indefinitely After President's Tweet is Deleted 95
TikTok Gives Itself Permission To Collect Biometric Data On US Users, Including 'Faceprints and Voiceprints' 31
Facebook To End Special Treatment for Politicians 73
Facebook Says US Is the Top Target of Disinformation Campaigns 62
Viral TikTok Video Attracts 2,500 Teenagers to Rowdy California Birthday Party. 175 Arrested 97
Twitter and Facebook Admit They Wrongly Blocked Millions of Posts About Gaza Strip Airstrikes 156
Twitter Could Be Working On Facebook-Style Reactions 7
WhatsApp Says It Won't Limit Functionality If You Refuse Its Privacy Policy -- For Now 10
Biden Administration Continues To Defend Social Media Registration Requirement in Court 52
Tech Liability Shield Has No Place in Trade Deals, Groups Say 26
Industry Groups Sue To Stop Florida's New Social Media Law 142
Twitter Decries India Intimidation, Will Press for Changes 50
EU Guidelines Target Tech Giants Over Monetising Disinformation 37
Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers 63
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates 402
Will the End of Lockdowns Change Our Relationship with the Internet? 81
Facebook Says Government Internet Shutdowns Are on the Rise 40
Twitter Reopens Its Verification Process For First Time Since 2017 29
Founder of TikTok Owner ByteDance To Step Down As CEO 7
Facebook Calls Links To Depression Inconclusive. These Researchers Disagree 100
Parler Returns To Apple's App Store 148
Report: 65% of Social Media Anti-vax Propaganda Comes From Just 12 People 297
'How Lies on Social Media Are Inflaming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict' 362
Bill To Ban TikTok On US Government Devices Passes Committee 45
UK To Require Social Media To Protect 'Democratically Important' Content 53
Facebook Is Testing Pop-Up Messages Telling People To Read a Link Before They Share It 61
DHS Launches Warning System To Find Domestic Terrorism Threats On Public Social Media 70
Game Developers Break Silence Around Salaries 89
Voice Social Network Clubhouse Arrives on Android 14
Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys General Say 43
Twitter and TikTok are Losing the War Against COVID Disinformation 146
Capitol Rioters Identified Using Facial Recognition Software, Cellphone Records - and Social Media Posts 352
Facebook Criticized For 'Arbitrary' Suspension of Trump -- by Its Own Oversight Board 183
Twitter Begins To Show Prompts Before People Send 'Mean' Replies 93
New Emails Show Steve Jobs Referred To Facebook As 'Fecebook' Amid App Store Conflict 59
Canadian Government Accused of Trying to Introduce Internet Censorship 293
New Florida Law Could Punish Social Media Companies for 'Deplatforming' Politicians 336
Microsoft Teams Usage Jumps To 145 Million Daily Active Users 33
English Soccer Teams Have Started a Four-Day Social Media Boycott To Protest Online Abuse 59
Oracle VP Ken Glueck Suspended by Twitter for Doxing a Reporter 81
Inventive Grandson Builds Telegram Messaging Machine For 96-Year-Old Grandmother 36
'Facebook Knows It Was Used To Help Incite The Capitol Insurrection' 384
Surge Reported in Crowdfunding Campaigns for Rent, Food, and Bills 170
'Not Even Student Work': MyPillow CEO's Social Media Site Botches Rollout 191
TikTok Sued For Billions Over Use of Children's Data 18
Uber and Just Eat Takeaway CEOs Spar on Twitter as European Food Delivery Battle Heats Up 18
MI5 Warns of Spies Using LinkedIn To Trick Staff Into Spilling Secrets 35
Chat App Discord Ends Takeover Talks With Microsoft 61
Reddit Talk Is a Clubhouse Competitor For Subreddits 23
Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook is Working on a Clubhouse Clone 25
How a True-Crime Podcast Led to an Arrest in a 25-Year-Old Cold Case 41
Facebook Urged To Reconsider Its Plans for an Instagram for Children 34
Social Media Plays Key Role for Domestic Extremism, FBI Director Says 120
Facebook Hits Renewable Energy Goal Ahead of Earth Day 24
'Why It's Easier To Move Country Than Switch Social Media' 82
The Global Business of Professional Trolling 108
'Why We're Freaking Out About Substack' 113
Attackers Can Now Remotely Deactivate WhatsApp on Your Phone 52
How an Online 'Lego' Gamer Infiltrated the White House Press Corps 34
Would You Tell an Angel Investor How to Start a New Country? 59
Documentary Claims to Unmask 'Q'. Are Q's Drops Over? 150
Research Says Facebook's Ad Algorithm Perpetuates Gender Bias 105
Facebook Hopes Tiny Labels On Posts Will Stop Users Confusing Satire With Reality 113
Reddit-Fueled Penny Stock's 6,400% Rally Reversing In Sydney 19
Twitch Will Ban Users For 'Severe Misconduct' That Occurs Away From Its Site 320
YouTube Is Once Again the Most Popular Social Media Platform 42
Facebook Does Not Plan To Notify Half-Billion Users Affected by Data Leak 22
Twitter Held Discussions To Buy Clubhouse For $4 Billion 10
Justice Thomas Argues For Making Facebook, Twitter and Google Utilities 236
A South Korean Chatbot Showed How Sloppy Tech Companies Can Be With User Data 11
Putin's Plan For Controlling the Internet In Russia 63
Supreme Court Says Facebook Text Alerts Aren't Illegal Robocalls 108
Facebook Blames 'Technical Issue' For Shorting Video Creators Thousands of Dollars In Ad Revenue 20
Inside BitClout, the Dystopian Social Network With Big Backers and Vocal Critics 49
Parler Referred Violent Content to the FBI 50 Times, Angering Users 175
Female Founder Starts a Meme - By Just Calling Herself a Founder 117
How 'Rest of World' Wants to Change International Tech Coverage 19
Facebook To Start Reopening Silicon Valley Offices in May 22
Facebook Has Been Autogenerating Pages For White Supremacists 97
Twitter Is Exploring the Use of Facebook-Style Emoji Reactions 14
Facebook and Twitter Must Do More To Fight Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, a Dozen State Attorneys General Demand 153
India Antitrust Body Orders Investigation Into WhatsApp's privacy policy changes 2
Mark Zuckerberg Suggests How To Tweak Tech's Liability Shield 52
Facebook Guidelines Allow Users To Call For Death of Public Figures 86

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