Elon Musk, who has made weeding out fake Twitter accounts and spam bots the central theme of his takeover plan, said if he buys the social-media platform he “will defeat the spam bots or die trying”.Read More
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Lobbying groups representing Facebook, Twitter, Google and other tech companies filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court, seeking to block a Texas law that prohibits large social media platforms from banning users based on their political views.Read More
Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years. It’s just not clear they’re moving quickly enough. Police say that when a white gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others — most of them Black — in a “racially motivated violent extremist” shooting in Buffalo…
Snoop Dogg too threw his hat in the Twitter saga ring after the news broke out that Elon Musk’s deal is on hold. As the boss of Twitter, the Rapper laid out a set of new rules for the company, which included replacing the board of directors, giving everyone a verified account and putting free…
Elon Musk on Saturday tweeted that Twitter’s legal team accused him of violating a nondisclosure agreement by revealing that the sample size for the social media platform’s checks on automated users was 100.Read More
A new study explains which aspects of social media influencing may lead to followers’ problematic engagement. For this, the researchers studied 500 Instagram users. They found out that influencers’ social attractiveness has a stronger effect than other factors in building followers’ attachments.Read More
WhatsApp has been spotted testing rich link previews for text status updates to let users look at a preview of the links being shared on status updates. Separately, WhatsApp is testing a new text status update interface for Android users.Read More
WhatsApp has been spotted introducing the ability to let users silently exit any of their groups — without letting other members know about their leaving.Read More
Elon Musk says he could seek a lower price for Twitter, saying that there could be at least four times more fake accounts than what the company has said.Read More
Twitter’s chief Parag Agrawal defended the messaging platform’s battle against “bots” that aspiring buyer Elon Musk says vex the platform, only to have the billionaire respond with a poo emoji.Read More