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Verizon Media and Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Automattic plans to acquire Tumblr. The press release says that the terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Axios reported that “a source familiar with the deal” put the price-tag “well below” $20 million, while another source put it
The Trump Administration has launched a web survey for people to use if they feel they have been wrongly censored on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube. The survey was created with the online form-building tool Typeform. The first page of the survey says: SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS should advance FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Yet too many Americans have seen their accounts suspended,
Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter have responded to the Christchurch Call to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online by committing to remove that content from their social media sites. As far as I can tell, this is the first time those three companies have decided to work together on removing that type of content. In March of this year, a
A wave of bombings happened in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Targets included churches, hotels, and an apartment complex. At least 290 people have been killed and 500 were injured. While this was happening, Sri Lanka's government blocked access to social media sites. Sri Lanka's government moved to block Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram – all owned by Facebook – on
Announced back in October, Google+ is coming to an untimely demise on 2nd April, leaving many of us somewhat uncomfortable with the thought of having to move house over to Facebook. Never mind Facebook's total disregard for privacy, the user interface is complete rubbish... While Google+ may be ending, Google is making it easy to retrieve information from the service
Gab is a social media website created by CEO Andrew Torba. If you use Twitter, you may have heard of Gab. It is the website disgruntled Twitter users tweet about whenever Twitter suspends accounts that break the Twitter rules. The New York Times describes Gab as “an extremist-friendly site”. USA Today reported that Robert Bowers had been identified as the
Over the past six months, I have really tried to limit my non-work utilization of Social Media. I found in a way that it was making me sick, both physically and mentally. I found myself sometimes feeling actually sick to my stomach and most definitely causing me to be moody. I tried clearing putting friends on snooze or unfollowing them