Twitter is experimenting with adding bright orange warning labels directly beneath what it deems to be “fake news” according to a leaked demo…
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Apple employees donate more to Bernie Sanders in U.S. presidential race
Apple employees donate more to Bernie Sanders than any other presidential candidate, with a total of $53,626 going to Bernie Sanders in the Q419…
Hostile to customers and in thrall to China, Apple doesn’t deserve a pass
Monopolists are endlessly inventing ways of extracting rents from their customers and suppliers. In fact, the saying works even outside the free-for-data model of Facebook and Google…
Twitter to soon let users limit or disable replies
Twitter has been on a long-term mission to overhaul how people have conversations on its platform, both to make them easier to follow…
Apple faces harsh regulatory environment in Russia in 2020
Under a piece of legislation that comes into effect July 1, all computers and mobile devices sold in Russia will have to have preinstalled Russian software…
Twitter finally supports Apple’s Live Photos
Twitter included a dramatic and silly video to introduce the Live Photos functionality…
How to install Twitter as a Progressive Web App on Mac
Want the Twitter web experience but in app form? Here’s how to install Twitter as a web app on your Mac…
Twitter will no longer accept political ads; gauntlet thrown to Facebook
In an implicit swipe at the FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s position on running false political ads on Facebook, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday the company would no longer accept political ads…
Twitter for Mac is now available in Mac App Store, thanks to Apple’s Mac Catalyst
Access premium and exclusive live streams directly from your Mac…
Socials social media companies vow to police ‘truth’
For years, Facebook and other social media companies have erred on the side of lenience in policing their sites…
Trump administration is drafting an executive order to take on alleged anti-conservative bias at social-media companies
President Trump vowed to study “all regulatory and legislative solutions” to combat the anti-conservative bias that he argues runs rampant on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook…
Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, visits Apple marketing for a chat
What would Twitter’s CEO have to teach Apple’s award-winning marketing team…
President Trump met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey; discussed the 2020 election, efforts to stop opioid abuse, and more
President Trump on Tuesday met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a huddle at the White House…
Laptop Mag’s Tech Support Showdown: Apple No.1
Apple’s got a history of agents answering issues accurately with a polite, friendly manner…
Linus Torvalds blasts social media as ‘a disease’
Linux don Linus Torvalds has spoken of his dislike of social media in an interview…
Twitter’s new prototype app ‘twttr’ launches to beta testers today; here’s how to sign up to test it
Twitter’s new prototype application is rolling out to the first group of testers starting today…
U.S. FTC’s Bureau of Competition launches task force to monitor technology markets
The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition announced the creation of a task force…
Twitter finally reveals its number of daily users: 126 million
For years, Twitter has been asking investors to judge the company by looking at user growth…
Twitter’s iOS app debuts easy way to switch between chronological and algorithmic timelines
Starting today, Twitter users on iOS can tap a new icon…
Samsung tweets 331 times – from an Apple iPhone
Samsung just tweeted from an iPhone. Again…
U.S. senator says privacy bill draft could arrive in early 2019
Members of U.S. Congress from both parties have criticized Facebook, Google, and Twitter over data breaches, a lack of online privacy options, and concern about political bias…
Twitter redesigns its Apple iOS app to de-emphasize follower counts
Twitter has made follower counts appear less prominent on its iOS app by making the font size smaller…
Apple, other tech firms to testify before U.S. Senate on data privacy September 26th
The White House said in July it was working to develop consumer data privacy policies and officials had been meeting major firms…
Apple bans Alex Jones’ Infowars app for ‘objectionable content’
Apple Inc said on Friday that it had banned from its App Store the Infowars app belonging to popular U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones…
U.S. Senator Warner: Tech regulation is coming, ‘the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end’
To Sen. Mark Warner, it’s not a question of whether Congress will regulate the tech industry but when…
U.S. Justice Department says probing social media companies for stifling ‘free exchange of ideas’
The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it will meet with state attorneys general to discuss concerns…
Class action lawsuit accuses Apple, other tech firms of suppressing political content
In the wake of mounting proof that social media giants are illegally restricting free speech of conservatives, and promoting free speech from leftist sources such as CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post and others…
President Trump: ‘I would rather have fake news’ than censorship
President Trump on Tuesday railed against social media censorship…
ACLU: Apple’s ban of Alex Jones and Infowars could set dangerous social media precedent
The director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) speech, privacy and technology project, warned Monday that bans against Alex Jones and Infowars…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he ‘fully admit[s]’ Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias…
President Trump blasts social media ‘censorship’
President Donald Trump used Twitter to tear into social media companies Saturday morning…
Twitter bans Alex Jones from posting on Twitter for seven days
Twitter Inc. on Tuesday suspended the far-right talk-show host Alex Jones for violating…
Tim Cook sends Mark Zuckerberg, YouTube, and Spotify scrambling over Infowars’ Alex Jones
The big tech firms’ decision to ban some of Alex Jones’ and Infowars’ content on the grounds of “hate speech” sets a vague precedent that leaves them vulnerable to accusations of hypocrisy…
Jack Dorsey explains why Twitter isn’t banning Alex Jones and Infowars
In a move to defend his company’s decision to not ban Alex Jones, Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey…
Twitter shares plunge after social network loses 1 million active users
Twitter Inc. shares plunged the most in two years after the social media company said monthly users dropped by 1 million…
President Trump uses at least two Apple iPhones
The Apple iPhones are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency…
Apple getting more ambitious in product placement in TV shows
When it comes to placing products in shows, Apple is slowly moving from relying on surprising cameos to taking credited roles…
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweets support for Austin employees facing serial bomber threat
The latest of four bombings in the Austin area in the past 16 days has a ‘higher level of sophistication’ than the previous three…
Companies scour social media for clues to your physical and mental health
Your digital footprint — how often you post on social media, how quickly you scroll through your contacts…
Twitter sort of denies allegations of employees reading direct messages
On Monday, conservative activist and filmmaker James O’Keefe published undercover footage of Twitter engineers…
Twitter issues statement regarding world leaders on Twitter
There’s been a lot of discussion about political figures and world leaders on Twitter…
U.S. Senate Democrat Al Franken decries Facebook’s and Google’s ‘unprecedented’ control of the press
Al Franken has again raised alarms about how Facebook and Google are misusing the ‘unprecedented power’ they wield…
