Sources: RedNote staff is scrambling to hide US users' posts from Chinese users after China raised concerns about politically sensitive English-language posts
But Will It Last? Makena Kelly / Wired : TikTok Hadn't Even Been Banned Before the Backlash Started Yaling Jiang / Time : The Lure of Chinese App Red Note Taylor Lorenz / User Mag : The RedNote honeym...
Multiple US House aides say ByteDance's video editing app CapCut could also be subject to the same divest-or-ban requirement as TikTok
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Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”
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Small-business owners and activists who rely on TikTok say the US House measure forcing a sale or ban would damage their livelihoods and harm their communities
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A look at My Friends My Data, a group of startup founders pushing for legislation to force tech giants like Meta to let creators transfer followers between apps
A new coalition of start-ups is calling on tech giants to allow creators to reach followers on more platforms. Tweets: @carnage4life , @joshconstine , @ianbetteridge , and @taylorlorenz See also Media...
Patreon suspends donations to Come Back Alive, a nonprofit started in 2014 to equip Ukrainian soldiers, for violating policies on funding military activity
On Wednesday night, Russia began its invasion … Shawn Amick / Bitcoin Magazine : $4.4 Million In Bitcoin Has Been Donated To Ukrainian Military Support Groups Arnold Kirimi / Cointelegraph : Crypto co...
Facebook and Instagram now give users options to hide Like counts across all posts and to hide their own public Like counts from others
for your own posts and others Clare Duffy / CNN : Facebook and Instagram willl now let all users hide likes on posts Garett Sloane / Ad Age : Instagram ‘Drops’ a new place to shop as social commerce t...
Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple's IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses
“Stop inventing shittier trains” — really encounters a perfect, crystalline example. https://twitter.com/... Laura Bassett / @lebassett : I don't really want to hear anything about the journalism busi...
After researchers raised data privacy concerns, Clubhouse says it is taking steps “to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers”
what it is and how to get an invite Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1485: what “accept cookies” really means, why surfaces don't spread Covid, a Facebook smartwatch?, and more Jitendra Son...
President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States
and people are blaming Sarah Cooper, who may have hurt his feelings Joshua Keating / Slate : TikTok Could Have Been China's Nintendo Kaya Yurieff / CNN : ‘Everyone is going cray cray’: TikTok users fr...