Social Media
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Elon Musk Tells Users to Delete Facebook In a recent tweet, Elon Musk told his 31 million followers to delete their Facebook accounts, calling it 'lame'. -
Vine Founder Launches Follow-up with Byte If you're missing Vine and TikTok just isn't doing it for you, then good news: Byte has just launched. -
Clearview AI Takes Facial Recognition Data of Millions from Social Media Is there anything you can do to prevent your photos ending up on a facial recognition database these days? -
TikTok Challenges WhatsApp for Most Downloaded App of the Year A new report from SensorTower, charting the most popular app downloads of 2019, shows TikTok is closing in on WhatsApp. -
How to Start a Podcast Here, we'll offer a quick overview of how you can start your own podcast for free (or at least, as cheaply as possible). -
Facebook and Google Just Dropped Off 2020’s “Best Places to Work” List Glassdoor's long-running "Best Places to Work" list has just debuted for 2020, with a few shocks for big tech companies. -
Instagram is Switching Off ‘Likes’ and People Aren’t Happy Instagram's CEO, Adam Mosseri, announced over the weekend that the platform will stop displaying the number of likes posts receive in the US, over the next week. While ostensibly a reaction to the platform's effect on users' mental health, some users still aren't happy. -
Indian Twitter Influencers Leave Platform in Protest Users of Twitter in India have begun moving over to a rival platform, after complaints about the company's moderation policies, and claims that it's been inconsistent and heavy-handed in dealing with topics that have breached its policies. -
Twitter Staff Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia Two former Twitter employees have been charged by the US justice department for spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia, having been paid thousands of dollars to expose information about critics of the regime. The pair are alleged to have accessed the data of thousands of Twitter users. -
Twitter Plans to Neuter Rule-Breaking Tweets From World Leaders Twitter aims to restrict its users from liking, replying to, or retweeting any tweets from world leaders that are found to break Twitter's rules. Find our more about Twitter's slow-moving fight to clean up its platform.
