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Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, tweeted about new features. “We’ve added new ways to tag and improve ranking: Product Tags, Enhanced Tags, Ranking for originality. Creators are so important to the future of Instagram, and we want to make sure that they are successful and get all the credit they deserve.” TechCrunch reported that shortly after that announcement, a spokesperson
Brave announced that they are rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content’s publisher directly. Brave states that AMP harms users’ privacy, security, and internet experience, and just as bad, AMP helps Google further monopolize and control the direction of the Web. Brave will protect users from
Netflix reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers during the first quarter - its first decline in paid users in more than a decade - and warned of deepening trouble ahead, CNBC reported. According to CNBC, Netflix’s shares cratered more than 25% in extended hours after the report on more than full day’s worth of trading volume. Fellow streaming Roku, Spotify,
TorrentFreak reported that sites like The Pirate Bay,1337x, and Fmovies no longer appear when searched on DuckDuckGo’s search engine. According to TorrentFreak, several YouTube ripping services have disappeared, and the homepage of the open-source software YouTube-mp3 is “unfindable”. Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, posted a thread of tweets in response to not only the TorrentFreak article, but other websites
Following Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter and make it a private company, Twitter’s Board of Directors enacted what has been referred to as a “poison pill”. It is my understanding that this decision is something the Board is allowed to do. Axios reported that the “poison pill” is a corporate term that gives, in this case, Twitter’s existing shareholders
In late reporting, the Twitter board has deemed Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter as unwelcome signaling that things are about to get ugly and that Musk may have to go to war if he really wants twitter. The simple fact that the board is looking at rejecting his offer shows things are about to get ugly.
Fox News sounds like the kind of company that would want to be on Truth Social. It tends to provide information in a way that attracts people who are conservative. It has a history of being extremely supportive of former President Trump. Axios reported a verified Fox News account appeared on Truth Social. The strange thing is, Fox News was