Russia has limited access to Facebook after the social media provider refused to stop fact-checking and labelling content from state-owned organisations, former UK deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said. Russian authorities announced the “partial restriction” after the social media network limited the accounts of several Kremlin-backed outlets over the invasion of Ukraine. Russian state communications […]
Tech companies need to “get a moral compass” and do more to protect children in the virtual worlds of the metaverse, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Dame Rachel de Souza said she was “really horrified” after a BBC report found a metaverse app that allowed children as young as 13 into virtual strip […]
Facebook has been accused of failing to add warning labels to half of the posts from the largest publishers of climate change denial articles, with campaigners warning the social network is causing the “pollution of the information ecosystem”. A new study by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suggests that just over half (50.5%) […]
Former US president Donald Trump’s social media app, that he hopes will rival Twitter, has launched. Mr Trump is seeking a new digital stage to rally his supporters and fight Big Tech limits on speech a year after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. His Truth Social app was offered for download from […]
Snapchat is to allow users to change their username for the first time, with one change a year allowed for those on the social media platform. The app said the ability to alter a username had been one of the most requested features from its community. Snapchat said users would be able to change their […]
Tinder has launched a “blind date” experience that allows users to select a potential partner based on chat rather than appearance. The dating app said its “Fast Chat: Blind Date” feature is directed at its Gen Z users – those aged between 18 and 25, who make up more than 50% of its members – […]
TikTok has announced an update to its Community Guidelines which sees the platform strengthen its rules around online challenges, promoting eating disorders and hateful ideologies. The video-sharing site’s head of trust and safety, Cormac Keenan, said it was updating its rules to help improve transparency for users as well as clarity for moderators on what […]
Joe Rogan’s mouth has put Spotify in a tough spot, but the streaming giant is apparently not ready to part ways with the popular podcast host despite intense criticism over his anti-coronavirus vaccine comments and racial slurs. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said in a message to employees that the company would not part ways with […]
A historic plunge in the stock price of Facebook’s parent company has helped yank other tech stocks lower on Wall Street, abruptly ending a four-day winning streak for the market. The 26.4% wipeout for Meta Platforms, as Facebook’s owner is now known, erased more than 230 billion dollars in market value, easily the biggest one-day […]
Facebook has reported a fall in daily active users for the first time in its history, as boss Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the growing competition from rival social media apps such as TikTok. New figures, released as part of parent company Meta’s latest financial results, show that daily users of Facebook fell to 1.929 billion people […]
