TikTok dismisses calls for Chinese owners to sell stakes
Meanwhile, lawmakers in both the House and Senate have been moving forward with legislation that would give the Biden administration more power to clamp down on TikTok.
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Mark Zuckerberg was warned about social media addiction, filing shows
Employees at Facebook parent Meta Platforms and TikTok developer ByteDance were aware of the harmful effects of their platforms on young children and teenagers but disregarded the information or in some cases sought to undermine it, court filings show.
Twitter hit by glitches as links, images fail to load
The company experienced an uptick of instability and bugs in recent months after new owner Elon Musk cut its staff sharply.
TikTok adds 60-minute limit for teens but leaves big loopholes
The purported “limit” has been introduced as TikTok encounters significant political pressure in the United States from lawmakers in both major parties.
Supreme Court wrestles with lawsuit shield for social media
The case highlighted the tension between technology policy fashioned a generation ago and the reach of today’s social media, numbering billions of posts each day.
Twitter scrambles to fix meltdown as many unable to tweet
It is not clear what caused Wednesday’s meltdown, but Twitter engineers and experts have been warning that the platform is at an increased risk of fraying since new owner Elon Musk fired most of the people who worked on keeping it running.
Indy laboratory fires manager who threatened California congressman
Patients Choice Laboratories said Friday it was “appalled” by the comments of its employee, who sent a vulgar, threatening direct message to Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell.
Twitter leak exposes 235 million email addresses from hack
While account passwords were not leaked, malicious hackers could use the email addresses to try to reset people’s passwords, or guess them if they are commonly used or reused with other accounts.
Indiana blocks Chinese-owned app TikTok from state devices
The blockage came on the same day that Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sued TikTok, claiming the video-sharing platform misleads its users, particularly children, about the level of inappropriate content and security of consumer information.
Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case
The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform.
Musk says he will find new Twitter CEO but keep control of key divisions
Musk tweeted his decision Tuesday night in response to an unscientific and unrepresentative poll he launched two days ago, which asked users whether he should step down as head of the company.
UPDATE: Twitter poll closes, users vote in favor of Musk exit as CEO
More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a poll that asked whether billionaire Elon Musk should step down as head of Twitter voted yes when the poll closed on Monday.
Twitter suspends journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk
Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to accuse journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts that he described as “basically assassination coordinates.”
Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group
The advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.
Congress drops media bargaining bill amid Facebook, industry blowback
The move came a day after Facebook said it would “consider removing news from our platform” if lawmakers moved ahead with the measure, a threat that publisher groups denounced.
FBI director raises national security concerns about TikTok
FBI Director Chris Wray warned Friday that control of the popular video sharing app is in the hands of a Chinese government “that doesn’t share our values.”
Many top advertisers skittish about Twitter under Musk
More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 marketers have not advertised on the social media network in the past two weeks, a Washington Post analysis of marketing data found.
Elon Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account
The move could help the platform’s once loudest, bluntest force regain online attention just as a new presidential election begins.
Twitter risks fraying as engineers exit over Musk upheaval
Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers that industry insiders and programmers who were fired or resigned this week agree: Twitter may soon fray so badly it could actually crash.
Hundreds said to have opted to leave Twitter over Musk ultimatum
Hundreds of Twitter employees refused Thursday to sign a pledge to work longer hours, threatening the site’s ability to keep operating and prompting hurried debates among managers over who should be asked to return, current and former employees said.