Mastodon Features That Twitter Should Steal (but Won’t)
Any platform that supports free speech should have a content warning system pretty much like the one Mastodon offers. I ...
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Amazon, FBI, 70k Sites Send Your Data to Elon Musk’s Twitter
Illustration: jtstockimage (Shutterstock)In October, Elon Musk purchased Twitter for a cool $44 billion dollars. Among a variety of other assets ...
TikTok and Bumble Crack Down on Nonconsensual Nude Photos
The platforms are using a self-reporting workflow that Meta first started using in Australia in 2017. Image: XanderSt (Shutterstock), Boumen ...
Twitter Failed to Flag Christchurch Shooting Video Re-Uploads
Image: CHRIS DELMAS (Getty Images)Twitter removed newly posted videos on Sunday of the Christchurch mosque shootings only after the clips ...
Twitch is, Vaguely, Working to Fix its Child Predator Problem
Twitch said it is creating a new phone number verification system to stop streams from young people under 13-years-old, but ...
Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter
Elon Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account last weekend, reversing a ban imposed in January 2021 after his posts were deemed ...
Thousands Tweet Same Joke About Elon Musk’s Twitter Fiasco
Photo: Carina Johansen (Getty Images)Digital activism started with KONY 2012, which asked people to highlight the crimes of an African ...
How to Claim Your YouTube Handle
On every platform, from Twitter to Instagram to Google Docs, the practice of mentioning and tagging someone by typing an ...
How Apple’s Privacy Setting Helped TikTok Fight Facebook
Photo: Ascannio (Shutterstock)In April, 2021, Apple dropped a nuclear bomb on the world of online advertising. The company rolled out ...
A Race to Bridge the Analog Divide in US Politics
“While I see and understand the power of social media and how you can communicate messages and engage in some ...