Meta Files 2 Separate Data-Scraping Lawsuits
The defendants are Octopus, a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise, and Turkish-based individual Ekrem Ateş.
Reddit Begins Accepting Applications for Community Funds Program
The deadline is Aug. 10.
Pew Research Center Shares 5 Key Facts About Political Tweets
The think tank analyzed nearly 1 million English-language tweets from U.S. adults posted between May 1, 2020, and May 31, 2021.
Meta to Pull the Plug on Novi Digital Wallet Sept. 1
Then-Facebook introduced plans for virtual coin Libra, digital wallet Calibra in June 2019.
Journalists May Prefer Twitter, But Their Readers Often Do Not
Pew Research Center found a divide between the social platforms used by the media and those used to consume the media.
WWE Sets #SummerSlamContest on Twitter
The winning fan will receive a trip to the event and two floor seats.
Reddit Acquires Natural Language Processing Company MeaningCloud Europe
The moves follows its deal to snap up machine learning platform Spell last month.
National Geographic Spotlights America’s Native Nations on Instagram
Quannah Rose Chasinghorse, featured on the July cover, will curate the account.
Twitter Rolls Out Branded Likes in Japan, Saudi Arabia, UK, US
The add-on to Timeline Takeover turns the like button into a custom animation.
Instagram Adds In-App Option for iOS Users to Delete Their Accounts
The change complies with a new policy from Apple’s App Store.
TikTok Removed 41,191 Videos Related to Ukraine War in Q1 2022
Overall, 44,438,898 accounts were removed during the period.
NBCU’s Maggie McLean Suniewick Joins Twitter as VP of Partnerships
In the newly created role, she will oversee the business development, developer platforms, global content partnerships teams.
Twitch Debuts Guest Star Feature
Creators can invite up to five people to participate in their livestreams.
The Hondaverse Comes to Fortnite on Twitch
Streamer SypherPK will help introduce the fully immersive virtual world.
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Google’s Jigsaw, Twitter Take Steps to Protect Journalists
New tool TRFilter helps them detect and flag harmful comments and threats, as well as block, mute or save comments at scale.