Social Networks Stories for 2022

Twitter Rival Mastodon Rejects Funding To Preserve Nonprofit Status 56
Misleading Ads Fueled Rapid Growth of Online Mental Health Companies 50
US House Administration Arm Bans TikTok on Official Devices 23
No More TikTok On House of Representatives' Smartphones 78
Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Launches Fund to Invest in Open Metaverse Projects 25
TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists 59
TikTok Banned on Government Devices Under Spending Bill Passed by Congress 52
Some Universities Are Now Restricting TikTok Access on Campus 36
Taiwan Investigates TikTok For Suspected Illegal Operations 11
Tumblr Is Launching a Livestreaming Feature 8
Tech Groups Ask Supreme Court To Review Texas Social Media Law 115
TikTok Pushes Potentially Harmful Content To Users as Often as Every 39 Seconds, Study Says 77
Senate Passes Legislation To Ban TikTok From US Government Devices 50
Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom Launch Overture Maps Foundation To Develop Interoperable Open Map Data 34
US Authorities Charge 8 Social Media Influencers In Securities Fraud Scheme 25
Jack Dorsey Says He Will Give $1 Million Per Year To Signal App 73
YouTube Moderation Bots Will Start Issuing Warnings, 24-Hour Bans 59
Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Seek To Ban TikTok From the US 122
Meta Kills Facebook Connectivity After Nearly a Decade 10
Is This Nature App the Key To Saving Civilization? 59
Why Raspberry Pi's New Hire Caused a Social Media Firestorm 206
Meta's Behavioral Ads Will Finally Face GDPR Privacy Reckoning In January 8
GOP-Led States Ban TikTok On Government Devices 84
Microsoft Teams Adds Free Communities Feature To Take on Discord 52
Telegram Premium Tops 1 Million Subscribers 16
Meta Urges Washington To Take Hands-Off Approach To Regulating the Metaverse 54
Hive Social Turns Off Servers After Researchers Warn Hackers Can Access All Data 73
Kanye West Is No Longer Buying Parler 94
Messaging App Telegram Moving Into Crypto 29
Mark Zuckerberg Still 'Long-Term Optimistic' on Metaverse, Says Skepticism Doesn't Bother Him Too Much 82
Apple Has Threatened To Withhold Twitter From App Store, Elon Musk Says 410
Meta Claims US Military Linked to Online Propaganda Campaign 74
Why the Internet Invented a Fake Martin Scorsese Film Called 'Goncharov' 34
China Announces New Social Credit Law 172
Tumblr To Add Support For ActivityPub, the Social Protocol Powering Mastodon and Other Apps 36
Facebook To Remove Several Information Fields From Profiles, Including Religious and Political Views 55
'Metaverse Will Be Our Slow Death': Meta Employees Hit Out At Zuckerberg 121
Reddit Now Lets You Mute Subreddits You Don't Like 45
Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday's Midterms 289
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing To Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week 60
Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Social Media Site? 169
Mastodon Continues to Grow - But Still .27% the Size of Twitter 110
LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates 9
Vietnam To Require 24-hour Take-Down For 'False' Social Media Content 43
Instagram Jumps Into NFTs With Minting and Selling Feature 19
Mastodon Gained 70,000 Users After Musk's Twitter Takeover 154
Tumblr Will Now Allow Nudity But Not Explicit Sex 45
FCC Commissioner Says Government Should Ban TikTok 80
Discord Bans 68,000 Servers, 55 Million Accounts 29
India Sets Up Panels With Veto Power Over Social Media Content Moderation 23
Twitter Is Now an Elon Musk Company 446
Twitter Will Allow Users To Buy and Sell NFTs Through Tweets 30
Did PayPal Just Reintroduce Its $2,500 'Misinformation' Fine, Hoping We Wouldn't Notice? 100
Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-A-Day Content Moderators 90
Has Online Disinformation Splintered and Become More Intractable? 455
Forbes Alleges ByteDance Planned to Use TikTok to Monitor Locations of Specific American Citizens 28
Telegram To Auction Off Usernames Via Blockchain-based Platform 20
Anti-Vaccine Groups Avoid Facebook Bans By Using Emojis 371
Parler Accidentally Doxed Elite Members When Announcing Kanye West Takeover 71
TikTok Deal Likely To Leave US Data Leaking To China 31
Redditors Have Created Millions of Crypto Wallets To Buy NFT Avatars 22
Meta To Sell Giphy After UK Regulator Blocks $315 Million Deal 26
Kanye West To Acquire 'Uncancelable' Social Media Platform Parler 321
Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse 'Sad' and 'Empty', Leaked Internal Documents Complain 250
New 'Council for Responsible Social Media' Seeks Bipartisan Reforms 30
New Turkey Law Mandates Jail Time for Spreading 'Disinformation' 100
Trump's Truth Social Now Allowed in Google's Play Store 136
Mark Zuckerberg Says He Enjoys 'Being Doubted' 38
YouTube Is Introducing Handles, With Unique Human-Readable URLs For Every Channel 17
Meta Announces Legs 84
Brands Are Spamming WhatsApp Users in India, Facebook's Largest Market 23
It's Lonely in the Metaverse: Decentraland's 38 Daily Active Users in a $1.3B Ecosystem 61
Your Boss Can Monitor Your Activities Without Special Software 54
Research Shows Recommender Systems Can Use AI To Manipulate Our Preferences 11
VPN, Tor Use Increases in Iran After Internet 'Curfews' 22
Twitter Knows You Took a Screenshot, Asks You To Share Instead 54
Facebook Conducts 'Quiet Layoffs' By Urging Managers To Identify Certain Number of Workers as Underperforming 140
Meta To Increase Ad Load On Instagram 56
Musk Proposes To Proceed With Twitter Deal at $54.20 a Share - Bloomberg 302
How Twitter Serves As the Town Hall of Crypto 16
High Court Will Hear Social Media Terrorism Lawsuits 78
Tumblr Is Never Going Back To Porn 99
TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don't Use the App 44
Apple VP Leaves Company After Vulgar Comment Goes Viral On TikTok 260
Coroner Lists Instagram Algorithm As Contributing Cause of UK Teen's Death 49
Meta Cracks Down on Ad-Free Instagram Client a Day After It Launched 59
TikTok To Ban All Political Fundraising On Its Platform 40
As Unrest Grows, Iran Restricts Access To Instagram, WhatsApp 41
Twitter Discloses It Wasn't Logging Users Out of Accounts After Password Resets 12
Florida Brings Battle Over Social Media Regulation To the Supreme Court 183
Telegram Has a Serious Doxxing Problem 64
YouTube Targets TikTok With Revenue Sharing For Shorts, Partner Program Expansion 23
Children May Be Losing the Equivalent of One Night's Sleep a Week From Social Media Use, Study Suggests 31
TikTok Won't Commit To Stopping US Data Flows To China 61
California Governor Signs Law Requiring Social Networks To Post Moderation Rules 101
The Eggplant Emoji Makes You Less Likable, According to New Report 71
Extreme California Heat Knocks Key Twitter Data Center Offline 62
Instagram Stumbles in Push To Mimic TikTok, Internal Documents Show 28
Facebook Parent Meta Cuts Responsible Innovation Team 19
Facebook Button is Disappearing From Websites as Consumers Demand Better Privacy 36
TikTok's Secret To Explosive Growth? 'Billions And Billions Of Dollars' Says Snap CEO Evan Spiegel 56
Former Disney CEO Says Company Found a 'Substantial Portion' of Twitter Users Were Not Real When It Evaluated Acquisition in 2016 81
TikTok Denies Reports That It's Been Hacked 26
Ireland Fines Instagram a Record $400 Million Over Children's Data 32
India Summons Wikipedia Officials Over Edits To Cricketer's Page 50
Twitter Launches an Edit Button for Paying Subscribers 27
How Twitter's Child Porn Problem Ruined Its Plans For an OnlyFans Competitor 100
Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme 20
'Facebook Misinformation Is Bad Enough. The Metaverse Will Be Worse' 53
Google Study Finds Psychological 'Inoculation' Can Improve Resistance to Misinformation 173
Mark Zuckerberg Says Waking Up Every Day as CEO of Meta is Like Getting Punched in the Stomach 216
Jack Dorsey Says His Biggest Regret is Twitter Became a Company 98
New Breed of Video Sites Thrives on Misinformation and Hate 423
Do Inaccurate Search Results Disrupt Democracies? 49
UK's Young Adults Spending More Time on TikTok Than Watching TV 18
Gen Z is Over Facebook, Finds Pew Research. But YouTube Dominates Among Teens 57
Meta Injecting Code Into Websites Visited By Its Users To Track Them, Research Says 49
A Fifth of US Teens Use YouTube 'Almost Constantly,' With TikTok Not Far Behind 50
Meta's AI Chatbot Repeats Election and Anti-Semitic Conspiracies 146
The Case of Fake IMDb Credits 30
By Manufacturing Viral Videos, Magicians Made a Fortune on Facebook 22
Instagram To Begin Testing 9:16 Photos 41
Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections For Student's Off-Campus Social Media Post 105
Philippines Legislator Offers Up Bill That Would Criminalize 'Ghosting' 23
'CSS Crimes' Turn Social Media Posts Into Games 22
CERN Is Totally Not Opening a Portal To Hell 214
Twitter Warns of 'Record Highs' In Account Data Requests 7
Facebook Approved Pro-Genocide Ads in Kenya 28
Chinese Government Asked TikTok for Stealth Propaganda Account 43
Instagram Is Walking Back Its Changes For Now 27
'Stop Trying To Be TikTok': User Backlash Over Instagram Changes 50
Inside TikTok's Attempts To 'Downplay the China Association' 24
Snap Announces Plans To Cut Back Hiring as it Posts Bleak Results 8
Facebook Changes Users' Feeds To Look More Like TikTok 59
Microsoft is Launching a Facebook Rip-off Inside Teams 112
Google, Meta Bow To Sweeping Taxes, Content Curbs in Indonesia 13
Snapchat Is Finally Coming To the Web 24
Overrun by Influencers, Historic Sites Are Banning TikTok Creators in Nepal 33
Ukraine Says Big Tech has Dropped the Ball on Russian Propaganda 150
War Crimes Prosecutors Rely on Social Media Posts. Will TikTok Share Ukraine Footage? 25
TikTok's Head of Cybersecurity Is Stepping Down Amid Rising Privacy Concerns 10
Google Exec Suggests Instagram and TikTok Are Eating Into Google's Core Products, Search and Maps 70
TikTok Hits Pause On Its Most Controversial Privacy Update Yet 9
Jimmy Wales Solicits Donations for His Ad-Free Social Network 54
Meta is Dumping Facebook Logins as Its Metaverse ID System 36
Reddit Will Sell 'Collectible Avatars' 32
Japan Introduces Jail Time, Tougher Penalties For Online Insults 84
Twitter Sues India's Government Over Content Takedown Orders 31
As TikTok Promises US Servers, FCC Commissioner Remains Critical of Data Privacy 28
Countries Form New NATO-Like 'Mineral Security' Alliance to Ensure EV Supplies 53
Remember RadioShack? It's Now a Crypto Company with Wild Tweets 78
Facebook Groups Are Being Revamped To Look Like Discord 14
Company Behind Trump's Truth Social Under Investigation By Federal Prosecutors 170
Why MapQuest, Jeeves, and Other 'Internet Zombies' are Still Around 49
Meme-Stock Probe Finds Robinhood Woes Were Worse Than It Let On 19
US Proposes New Rules to Curb 'Meme Stock' Rallies 53
Russia's Cyberattacks Thwarted by Ukraine, Microsoft, Google, and Western Intelligence 37
Mark Zuckerberg is More Interested in the Metaverse Than Election Integrity 46
China Wants All Social Media Comments To Be Pre-reviewed Before Publishing 58
FBI Says Fraud on LinkedIn a 'Significant Threat' To Platform and Consumers 19
Reaching 700M Active Users, Telegram Announces 'Premium' Tier 33
A New Student Movement Wants You to Log Off 50
Is Social Media Really Harmful? 202
YouTube Shorts Tops 1.5 Billion Logged-in Users Monthly Users 65
Japan Makes 'Online Insults' Punishable By One Year 302
Texas AG Opens Investigation of Twitter Over Bots 119
Supreme Court Blocks Texas Social Media Law 86
Instagram Moderators Say Iran Offered Them Bribes to Remove Accounts 18
California Parents Could Soon Sue For Social Media Addiction 155
Jack Dorsey Steps Down From Twitter's Board 19
Florida Law on Social Media Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules 213
Can Tech Firms Prevent Violent Videos Circulating on the Internet? 116
Is Social Media Training Us to Please a Machine? 69
Twitter Will Hide Tweets That Share False Info During a Crisis 160
TikTok Plans Big Push Into Gaming, Conducting Tests in Vietnam 4
Older People Using TikTok To Defy Ageist Stereotypes, Research Finds 57
Should Social Networks Let You Take Your Followers to Other Services? 75
Anonymous Social Media App Yik Yak Exposed Users' Precise Locations 5
Twitter CEO Pushes Out Top Execs, Freezes Hiring 70
Appeals Court Rules Texas Social Media Law Can Proceed 232
Musk Says He Would Reverse Twitter's Permanent Ban on Trump 405
Instagram To Start Testing NFTs With Select Creators this Week 12
The UK Government's Plan to Rein in Big Tech 24
'Buy Now, Pay Later' Is Sending the TikTok Generation Spiraling Into Debt 193
Judge Dismisses Trump Lawsuit Seeking To Lift Twitter Ban 81
Facebook Parent Meta Hits the Brakes on Hiring as Growth Stalls 18
TikTok Plans To Share Ad Revenue With Creators For the First Time 10
Telegram 'Premium' Subscription is Showing Up in Beta Builds of the App 14
Sale of Bored Apes' Metaverse Land Made Gas Fees Skyrocket Past $3,000 111
How The Internet Saved the Home of Blogging Pioneer Noah Grey 42
EU Joins Mastodon Social Network, Sets Up Its Own Server 75
Snapchat's Evan Spiegel Dismisses Facebook's Metaverse as 'Hypothetical' 28
Twitter Admits It Overstated Users for Years 113
30,000 New Users Signed Up For Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter 217
Twitter Is Protecting Its Source Code From Disgruntled Employees, Reports Say 273
Facebook Doesn't Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes 59
Trump Says He Won't Return To Twitter 215
Elon Musk Buys Twitter For $44 Billion 630
Twitter on Track To Reach Deal With Elon Musk as Soon as Today 201
Ukraine's War Effort Gains an Unlikely Source of Funding: Memes 24
House Republicans Demand Twitter's Board Preserve All Records About Elon Musk's Bid To Buy the Company 288
Obama Says Social Media Falsehoods Spur Skepticism on Politics 275
Facebook's Fibre Optics in Nigerian State Put Africa Pivot in Focus 13
Gizmodo Publishes Massive New Leaked Trove of Internal Facebook Papers 20
After Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, US Army Training Includes Countering Social Media Disinformation 46
Social Media Made Us Stupid - and How to Fix It 141
Twitter Adopts Poison Pill in Bid To Thwart Elon Musk Takeover 249
Reddit Adds Comment Searching To Help Improve Search Results 11
WhatsApp To Launch 'Communities' 5
Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter For $41 Billion 311
TikTok's Ad Revenue To Surpass Twitter, Snapchat Combined In 2022 17
Elon Musk is Not Joining Twitter Board 134
Twitter Says It's Experimenting With 'Unmentioning' 15
Trump's Truth Social App Branded a Disaster 305
TikTok's Parent, ByteDance, Made Fake Accounts With Content Scraped From Instagram And Snapchat, Former Employees Say 19
The Sad State of Russia's Social Media Knock-offs 75
A Professor Warns the Internet 'is Not What You Think It Is' 88
Online Activists are Cold Calling Russians - and Messaging Them on Tinder 47
A Facebook Bug Mistakenly Elevated Misinformation, Russian State Media for Months 40
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests 32
Watch Out, Facebook. American Non-Profit Creates Social Network for Older Adults 61
Could Deepfakes Change the Course of War? 64
Instagram To Allow Users To See Most Recent Posts First 9
Brazil Reverses Telegram Ban 21
Brazil's Supreme Court Bans Telegram 31
Proposed Law In Minnesota Would Ban Algorithms To Protect the Children 112
Australian Watchdog Sues Facebook-owner Meta Over Scam Advertisements 17
Twitter Rolls Back Its Decision To Force You Into the Out-of-Order Timeline 28
Instagram is Now Blocked in Russia 97
Facebook's Metaverse Vision Questioned by Gaming Veteran 51
How Putin's Pre-War Moves Against Google and Apple Prepared His Clampdown on Free Speech 91
'The Kremlin is Lying', Warn Text Messages Sent to Millions of Russian Cellphone Numbers 210
The 11,000-Member Discord Channel For People Pretending to Be VR Police Officers 37
DuckDuckGo's Down-Ranking of Russian Disinformation Caused by Microsoft's Bing 115
Russian TikTok Influencers Are Being Paid To Spread Kremlin Propaganda 65
Twitter Makes It Harder To Choose the Old Reverse-Chronological Feed 29
Georgia Senate Passes Bill Seeking To Regulate Social Media 389
Russia Blocks Facebook and Twitter 118
Facebook is Shutting Down Its College Student-only Social Network, Campus 7
Facebook Researchers Find Its Apps Can Make Us Lonelier 31
Russian Government Sites Facing 'Unprecedented' Cyberattacks from Thousands in Pro-Ukranian 'IT Army' 116
Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked - Sort Of 48
Facebook and YouTube Block RT, Other Russian Channels From Earning Ad Dollars 65
Facebook Says Penalized By Russia After Refusing To Halt Fact-checkers 39
UK Social Media Users Could Get Power To Block Anonymous Accounts 43
Reddit Banned 2,625 Subreddits For Excessive Copyright Infringement In 2021 13
Twitter Accounts Sharing Video From Ukraine Are Being Suspended When They're Needed Most 146
Meta Is Building a Digital Voice Assistant for Metaverse Push 16
Trump-Backed 'Truth Social' Tops Apple's App Store Charts 294
Slate's 25th Anniversary Marked with Warning on Echo Chambers, Memories of 'Motivated Reasoning' on Microsoft 43

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