Category: Social Media / Websites
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YouTube Music comes to Sonos
YouTube Blog – 1.31.19 (1.30.19) YouTube Music just got a little bit louder! Beginning today, YouTube Music is now available to play on all Sonos speakers. Through the Sonos app, fans around the world with a YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium subscription can now easily play official songs, albums, thousands of playlists, and artist radio—on top of YouTube’s…
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Expanding Our Efforts to Protect Elections in 2019
Facebook Newsroom – 1.29.19 (1.28.19) Over the past two years, we have made massive investments to help protect the integrity of elections — not only addressing threats we’ve seen on our platform in the past, but also anticipating new challenges and responding to new risks. Read more: Expanding Our Efforts to Protect Elections in 2019
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Helping teens root out misinformation and get media savvy
Google Blog – 1.19.19 (1.16.19) Misinformation is nothing new, but in the digital age, it can spread like a virus. This is especially true for teenagers growing up with mobile phones as an extension of how they engage with the world and their friends. You might think teens are more digitally savvy, but research shows they can…
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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Russia
Facebook Newsroom – 1.17.19 Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram. The two operations we found originated in Russia, and one was active in a variety of countries while the other was specific to Ukraine. We didn’t find any links between these operations, but they used…
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The new app that 250M people use every day
Product Hunt Blog – 1.16.19 What’s the next Instagram? Or Twitter? Or even Facebook? ? These major networks (which also includes LinkedIn, Snapchat and Pinterest) have long defined the social media category, making it hard for any newcomer to snag market share. Like really, really hard. Space in our smartphones is precious real estate, which…
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What’s new with Google Fi in 2019
Google Blog – 1.16.19 (1.14.19) As we dive into 2019, we’re bringing new updates to Google Fi subscribers. Starting today, we’re upgrading default messaging on eligible phones to RCS, and in the coming weeks, if you’re using a phone designed for Fi, you’ll get faster data coverage in more places around the world. Read more: What’s new…
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The For You tab comes to iOS and over 130 countries on Android
Google Blog – 12.12.18 (12.10.18) Today, the For You tab is making its way over to Google Maps in over 40 countries on iOS and 100+ new countries on Android—helping you stay up to date on fun, new places so you’ll know exactly where to take the fam this winter. Read more: The For You…
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Giving People New Ways to Commemorate Moments on Facebook
Facebook Newsroom – 12.12.18 Life events on Facebook are a way to share, celebrate and come together around your most important milestones with friends and family. Just as they are in real life, life events on Facebook are distinguished from other everyday moments. To ensure these moments stand out even more, we’re redesigning this feature…
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How to delete your Twitter account (and back up your tweets)
Kaspersky Labs Blog – 12.12.18 (12.10.18) The idea of leaving Twitter may not be as popular as #DeleteFacebook, but still, some people want to leave the microblogging service for good. In addition to any other reasons users might have, Twitter has recently been accused of being indifferent to accounts spreading fake news and propaganda, as…
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Surprise, baby: It’s YouTube Rewind 2018!
YouTube Blog – 12.10.18 (12.6.18) In 2018, you danced your heart out to Drake, yodeled in Walmart, and played a lot of Fortnite. As we prepare to head into 2019, it’s time for our annual look back at the year that was in video and the trends that you made possible. Read more: Surprise, baby: It’s YouTube Rewind…