Facebook paid $4.9 billion to the FTC to protect Mark Zuckerberg from being sued individually by the US agency in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, says a group of shareholders in one process that was made public this Tuesday and that was reported by Politico. These
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Telegram initially announced its intention to resist pressure from the Russian power to block Vladimir Putin’s opponent’s application, but the automated ‘website’ (bot) where voters could obtain instructions to vote against Kremlin candidates in this weekend’s legislative elections was blocked
The Wall Street Journal is moving forward with news that Apple has considered kicking Facebook out of its App Store in 2019. The hypothesis was considered after being shared a BBC investigation into how Facebook was being used by human trafficking networks. Apple has even
An internal investigation conducted by Instagram and obtained by The Wall Street Journal indicates that the company is aware of the impact social networking has on the mental health of younger people. “We make the issues of body image worse for one in three girls”,
One of the apps that gained prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic, Houseparty, will be closed during the month of October. The decision was communicated by Epic Games, which said that the integration with the online game ‘Fortnite’ will also be removed. Read more: Against Taliban,
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law for the state that prevents social media companies from banning or restricting people based on their “points of view”, whether they have been shared on digital platforms or not. Abbott justified this bill by accusing social networks of
Twitter may be implementing bitcoin on the platform by creating a tipping-based system through the ‘Tip Jar’ feature, introduced to the network in May of this year. An image leaked on the microblog reinforces the initiative’s thesis, even left “on the air” by CEO Jack
FTC’s initial complaint, filed in December, threatened the Californian group with the separation of the Instagram network and the WhatsApp messaging service, but Washington federal judge James Boeasberg had estimated that it lacked “hard elements of power real from Facebook”. The revised complaint gives more
After Facebook announced that it continues to remove any content supporting the Taliban, it’s time for WhatsApp and YouTube to detail exactly how they are fighting the presence of the terrorist organization that has taken control of Afghanistan. In the case of WhatsApp, the company
TikTok came close to being banned in the US in the final stages of Donald Trump presidency, but apparently, the app owned by Chinese company ByteDance still cannot find peace. Business Insider reports that Republican Senator Marco Rubio has appealed to President Joe Biden to