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Elon Musk’s $7.99 Twitter Blue with verification is ‘coming soon’ on iOS; Musk recommends voting Republican in midterms

Monday, November 7, 2022 11:55 amMonday, November 7, 202253 Comments

Twitter’s iOS app has been updated to support Elon Musk’s new $7.99 per month Twitter Blue subscription. Apple’s App Store Twitter app…

President Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ again No.1 on Apple App Store after beta ends

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:03 pmTuesday, April 26, 202241 Comments

Last Friday, the free speech video platform Rumble on Friday announced that Truth Social, the social media platform created by the Trump …

Free speech proponent Elon Musk acquires Twitter for $44 billion

Monday, April 25, 2022 3:15 pmMonday, April 25, 202226 Comments

Twitter today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk, for…

Truth Social migrates to Rumble Cloud; ready to onboard millions of users

Friday, April 22, 2022 3:20 pmSaturday, April 23, 202228 Comments

The free speech video platform Rumble on Friday announced that Truth Social, the social media platform created by the Trump Media…

President Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ app opens to beta testers ahead of expected launch

Thursday, February 17, 2022 10:01 amThursday, February 17, 202266 Comments

Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s new social media app, “Truth Social,” has begun a beta rollout to about 500 beta testers who are now…

President Trump’s Truth Social free speech app needs Apple and Google to survive

Monday, February 7, 2022 10:56 am29 Comments

Close to its expected expected launch, former President Donald Trump’s new media venture, headlined by the ‘Truth Social’ free speech app…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey expected to step down

Monday, November 29, 2021 10:38 amMonday, November 29, 202110 Comments

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role. Dorsey, 45, currently serves as both the CEO of Twitter and Square…

U.S. FTC calls Facebook an illegal ‘personal social networking’ monopoly

Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:07 pm18 Comments

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday fired back at Facebook’s attempt to dismiss the regulator’s lawsuit seeking to break…

Social media app Parler flickers back to life on ‘independent technology’

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 10:35 amTuesday, February 16, 202120 Comments

Social media service Parler relaunched on Monday, although the service is spotty and users report getting hung up at the login page…

China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale

Friday, September 11, 2020 2:30 pmFriday, September 11, 202027 Comments

Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut…

Trump administration: TikTok buyer will not be able to transfer data from American soil to Chinese servers

Friday, August 28, 2020 12:15 pm9 Comments

As the deadline looms for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell off its popular video platform TikTok to an American company…

Microsoft plans to finish TikTok acquisition talks ahead of President Trump’s Sept. 15 deadline

Wednesday, August 5, 2020 1:35 pm6 Comments

Microsoft and TikTok plan to finish acquisition talks within the next three weeks, ahead of President Trump’s Sept. 15 deadline…

Apple denies reported interest in acquiring TikTok

Tuesday, August 4, 2020 2:52 pmTuesday, August 4, 20204 Comments

Apple has denied interest in acquiring TikTok after an Axios story from earlier Tuesday reported that Apple was looking into a potential deal. The Trump…

Twitter to soon let users limit or disable replies

Wednesday, January 8, 2020 4:00 pmWednesday, January 8, 20204 Comments

Twitter has been on a long-term mission to overhaul how people have conversations on its platform, both to make them easier to follow…

President Trump met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey; discussed the 2020 election, efforts to stop opioid abuse, and more

Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:59 am9 Comments

President Trump on Tuesday met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a huddle at the White House…

Twitter finally reveals its number of daily users: 126 million

Thursday, February 7, 2019 9:55 amThursday, February 7, 20193 Comments

For years, Twitter has been asking investors to judge the company by looking at user growth…

U.S. regulators sue Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 10:06 pm1 Comment

Nine months after a whistleblower revealed Facebook had allowed outsiders to improperly access personal information…

For years, Facebook gave other tech firms more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 9:15 amWednesday, December 19, 201811 Comments

Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages…

Walt Mossberg quits Facebook

Tuesday, December 18, 2018 2:01 pmTuesday, December 18, 201810 Comments

Walt Mossberg is far from alone in giving up on Facebook…

Ping! Apple Music Connect to shut down in 2019

Thursday, December 13, 2018 5:34 pm5 Comments

Apple Music Connect appears to slowly be going the way of iTunes Ping…

Facebook really is spying on you – just not through your phone’s mic

Friday, October 19, 2018 9:30 amFriday, October 19, 20188 Comments

Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online — and even offline, wandering around the physical world — it doesn’t need to hear us…

Apple launches new website devoted to privacy, showing off features of iPhones and Macs

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 5:00 pmWednesday, October 17, 20185 Comments

The feature comes as Apple contrast itself vs. companies like Facebook and Google, which rely on collecting data about their users and making it available to advertisers…

Facebook says Russian firms ‘scraped’ data, including users’ photos to build facial recognition profiles for Russian government

Monday, October 15, 2018 10:28 amMonday, October 15, 20183 Comments

Facebook removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government…

FBI investigating Facebook security breach where attackers accessed 30 million users’ personal information

Friday, October 12, 2018 6:02 pmFriday, October 12, 201812 Comments

Facebook revealed on Friday that a previously announced security breach on its platform…

Facebook discovers security breach affecting 50 million users

Friday, September 28, 2018 1:45 pmFriday, September 28, 20185 Comments

Facebook Inc. has discovered a security flaw affecting about 50 million user accounts…

Facebook is giving advertisers access to users’ shadow contact information

Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:28 pmThursday, September 27, 20186 Comments

Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor…

42% of U.S. users have ‘taken a break’ from Facebook; 28% have deleted the Facebook app in the past year

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 10:28 amWednesday, September 5, 201812 Comments

Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’

Monday, August 20, 2018 9:28 amMonday, August 20, 201844 Comments

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he ‘fully admit[s]’ Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias…

Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall

Thursday, July 26, 2018 3:01 pmThursday, July 26, 201825 Comments

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…

Facebook stock plunges as users vanish

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 6:52 pm21 Comments

Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…

Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy

Monday, June 25, 2018 5:01 pmMonday, June 25, 20181 Comment

Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..

The 18 things you may not realize Facebook knows about you: Firm reveals the extent of its spying in a 454-page document to U.S. Congress

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 5:03 pm13 Comments

The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…

Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook

Thursday, June 7, 2018 4:50 pmThursday, June 7, 201811 Comments

In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…

Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 6:00 pmWednesday, June 6, 201810 Comments

Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…

Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:55 amWednesday, June 6, 20182 Comments

The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…

Apple borks Facebook’s pervasive personal data-harvesting operation

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:28 amTuesday, June 5, 20185 Comments

Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook…

Apple requested ‘zero’ personal data in deals with Facebook – CEO Tim Cook

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:27 amTuesday, June 5, 20187 Comments

“We’ve never been in the data business,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday…

Facebook CEO blasts Apple’s latest privacy protections as ‘cute virtue signaling’

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:58 amTuesday, June 5, 201814 Comments

Apple is taking active steps to block Facebook’s data collection practices…

Facebook gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung

Monday, June 4, 2018 9:30 amMonday, June 4, 201819 Comments

Facebook struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information…

Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:35 pmWednesday, May 23, 201818 Comments

Turns out “sorry” doesn’t seem to work as much for the social network’s chief anymore…

How to remove third-party accounts like Facebook from your Mac

Friday, May 4, 2018 11:30 amFriday, May 4, 20183 Comments

With the release of iOS 11, Apple nixed its built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Vimeo…

Apple responds to personal data request with 9MB file: The personal data archives from Facebook and Google were 881MB and 243MB respectively

Friday, May 4, 2018 11:01 amFriday, May 4, 201816 Comments

Following Facebook’s acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of millions of users…

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