#Twitter’s new ‘Communities’ and ‘Super Follows’ will make it more like Facebook and Patreon

#Twitter’s new ‘Communities’ and ‘Super Follows’ will make it more like Facebook and Patreon

“#Twitter’s new ‘Communities’ and ‘Super Follows’ will make it more like Facebook and Patreon” At its core, Twitter hasn’t changed all that much in the past few years. For the most part, people use it the same as they always have — a mostly public-facing ‘microblogging’ platform. But the company today unveiled highlighted multiple upcoming…

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#WhatsApp goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update

#WhatsApp goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update

“#WhatsApp goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update” WhatsApp is pressing ahead with a privacy policy update that sparked a backlash last month — but it promised to give people plenty of time to review the changes. The messaging service took another crack at reassuring users that the update would not let Facebook, its parent company,…

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#Here’s why racism is rampant on dating apps

#Here’s why racism is rampant on dating apps

“#Here’s why racism is rampant on dating apps” The authors of a new book are arguing for race-blind dating apps — and the removal of filters for race and ethnicity. Finding love, they say, isn’t so black-and-white.  In a new book, “The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance,” sociologists Jennifer Lundquist,…

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#Parler back online after month-long hiatus following Amazon ban

#Parler back online after month-long hiatus following Amazon ban

“#Parler back online after month-long hiatus following Amazon ban” Parler came back online Monday, more than a month after Amazon forced the controversial social network into a lengthy hiatus. The Twitter-like platform also named conservative activist Mark Meckler as its interim CEO after its board of directors fired co-founder John Matze, who led the company…

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#Facebook begins test to show less political content

#Facebook begins test to show less political content

“#Facebook begins test to show less political content” Following Zuckerberg’s promise that Facebook would show less political content in the future, the company has begun testing just that. In a blog post today, the company announced it would begin to “reduce the distribution of political content in News Feed for a small percentage of people…

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#Singapore plan to use monitoring app on students’ computers sparks privacy fears

#Singapore plan to use monitoring app on students’ computers sparks privacy fears

“#Singapore plan to use monitoring app on students’ computers sparks privacy fears” SINGAPORE – A Singapore government scheme to ensure children have access to computers for home learning has raised privacy concerns over monitoring software installed on the devices. The scheme, accelerated by the closure of schools last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, offers subsidies…

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