“Swipe left” just took on a whole new meaning. On Thursday, Twitter announced that all iOS users now have the option to quickly switch between the Latest and Home timelines with a quick swipe. Twitter had prioritized the Home timeline as far back as 2016, but gave users the option to opt out via a…
Tech companies are continuing to take action as Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on. Search engine DuckDuckGo is the latest platform to take measures in the information war that’s being battled online. According to DuckDuckGo’s founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, the privacy-focused search engine has “down-ranked” websites in its search results that are “associated with…
If you subscribe to a lot of Substack writers and are now finding your email inbox inundated with newsletters, today is your lucky day. Substack, the subscription newsletter platform, has just launched its first mobile app in the Apple App Store. Anyone can download the app for their iOS devices right now. Tweet may have…
Over Presidents’ Day weekend, I, like many others who had signed up for the Apple App Store pre-order of Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, received a notification to sign up for an account. And, like everyone but a few hundred lucky VIPs, I got put on a waitlist. However, weeks later, Truth Social decided…
UPDATE: Mar. 9, 2022, 5:55 p.m. EST After this article’s publication, Telegram informed Mashable that the intention of Durov’s post was to assure readers that the company would “protect user data at any cost.” Mashable has asked for more information about how the company plans to protect user data, given concerns about its vulnerability, but…
On the matter of user privacy, Telegram’s founder has spoken. And we’re more confused than ever. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov posted an account in his public Telegram channel Monday about his history of protecting user data from the Russian government. He ends the post saying, “I stand for our users no matter what.…
TikTok has officially entered the Russian information war. The social network announced several new measures Friday intended to prevent misinformation and propaganda from spreading among TikTok users. The measures are positive, but potentially overdue: Outlets including The Guardian and The New York Times have reported that TikTok is rife with misleading videos purporting to depict…
TikTok has officially entered the Russian information war. The social network announced several new measures Friday intended to prevent misinformation and propaganda from spreading among TikTok users. Days later, on Sunday, the company went a step further when it moved to suspend its livestreaming services and “new content” in Russia as well, placing the blame…
The Russian government is tightening its grip on social media as it attempts to control the message over the war in Ukraine. Russia is now moving to block access to Facebook across the entire country, according to a March 4 official press release, translated by Google. Notably, only the Facebook platform itself appears to be…
Twitter announced on Thursday that it would be expanding “Birdwatch,” a crowdsourced project designed to combat misinformation. Introduced last year as a pilot program, Birdwatch allows contributors who are in good standing with the social media company to address tweets they find misleading and provide context in the form of a note. Previously, notes created…