Page 17 - Social Media
Instagram asking users' birth date to enforce child safety measures
In a bid to make the platform safer for its younger audience, the Facebook-owned Instagram is asking users to supply their date of birth
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How Instagram influencer helped rescue dozens from Afghanistan
Dozens of desperate Afghans who had been trying to flee the Taliban before Tuesday's deadline for the US withdrawal from Kabul made it to safety with help from an unexpected place
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Twitter announces to launch paid 'Ticketed Spaces' for iOS users
Twitter has announced to roll out paid 'Ticketed Spaces for iOS users where some hosts on its live audio feature can now sell access to Ticketed Spaces.
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FB plans independent poll panel to review political content decisions
The social network is considering to form an independent election commission that would keep a tab on its decisions.
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Twitter now lets users show followers which Spaces they are attending
Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that it is now experimenting with a new option that will let users show followers which Spaces they are listening to.
Instagram may ditch swipe up gesture to access links on Aug 30: Report
Facebook-owned Instagram is ditching the "swipe-up" link in Instagram Stories starting on August 30
Twitter faces claim it benefited from child sex trafficking
Two young men can proceed with a claim that Twitter Inc. benefited from sex trafficking involving them as teenagers when it published child pornography videos on its website: court
14 arrested in Assam over supporting Taliban on social media: Police
Fourteen people were arrested from across Assam for alleged social media posts supporting the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, police said on Saturday.
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Twitter working on participant rules, replay option for Spaces
According to 9To5Mac, these new features are still under development and were discovered in Twitter's code by developer and app researcher Nima Owji.
Facebook's most viewed post in the US in Q2 of CY2021 came from Mumbai
The post had 80.6 million content viewers in the US. The second-most viewed post had 61.4 million viewers
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What is a media company?
The media company, as we know it, however is dead
Social media has helped gen Z athletes find their 'authentic voice'
Many of these young sportspeople have gone beyond their sport and taken on roles of advocacy, sponsorship and politics
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Indian media cheer Bombay HC order putting new IT rules on hold
The court ruled following petitions filed by a news website and a journalist.
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How China's influencers are promoting a culture of online lynching
New Delhi, Aug 16: Chinese internet users had called for a boycott of H&M, Nike, Burberry, Adidas and a few other western fashion brands, when the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union announced sanctions on Chinese officers over Beijings treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang in March 2021. Tracy Wen liu of Foreign Policy Magazine reports that one of her old friends, an engineer living in Jiangsu province, had expressed his frustration that people kept purchasing items from these brands on WeChat and received support from a few others with a similar mindset.
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Congress says Twitter has locked its account; company defends decision
Twitter says Congress handle and those of many others flouted its rules on protecting identity of sexual assault victim.
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Reddit to raise up to $700 million at over $10 billion valuation
In the ongoing round, it has already raised $410 million from Fidelity
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Kalyan Kumar and Vaibhav Gupta founders of Social Catalyzers reinventing the wheel of 'Earned Media'
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SC asks parties to avoid 'parallel debates' on social media over Pegasus
The Supreme Court Tuesday said there must be some discipline and they must have some faith in the system.
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Made permanent appointments in compliance with IT rules: Twitter tells HC
The new appointees are employees of Twitter Inc and not the India entity of the microblogging platform, a person familiar with the details said.
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