YouTube announced today it will begin testing what could end up being a significant change to its video platform: It’s going to try hiding the dislike count on videos from
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Jake Paul looks to knock out the venture capital world with Anti Fund
During every economic boom, there are startup investors who appear on the scene from new corners. Some churn out; others earn the respect of the old guard over time. Jake
Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data
Significant funding news today for one of the startups making a business out of tapping huge, noisy troves of publicly available data across social media, news sites, undisclosed filings and
Update: Telegram raises $1BN+, including $150M from Mubadala and Abu Dhabi CP via pre-IPO convertible bonds
Update: Telegram has now announced it’s pulled in over $1BN in debt financing by selling bonds. Founder Pavel Durov put out an update via his official Telegram channel after a
Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers
After a few twists and turns and then ultimately cancelling its F8 developer conference last year over Covid-19 concerns, Facebook today announced a return of the event in a virtual-only
The next era of moderation will be verified
Since the dawn of the internet, knowing (or, perhaps more accurately, not knowing) who is on the other side of the screen has been one of the biggest mysteries and
Snapchat is developing its own take on TikTok Duets with a new ‘Remix’ feature
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Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform
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Social media CEOs hedge on whether they’d boot the 12 anti-vax ‘super-spreaders’ cited by states’ attorneys general
On Wednesday, a coalition of a dozen state attorneys general called on Facebook and Twitter to step up their enforcement of their community guidelines to curtail the spread of COVID-19
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey busted for tweeting during congressional hearing
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey got called out by Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) for tweeting during today’s congressional hearing on disinformation and extremism. The tech exec’s tweet was likely expressing frustration
Twitter acqui-hires team from Reshuffle to work on its API platform
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Twitter is exploring the use of Facebook-style emoji reactions
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Clubhouse UX teardown: A closer look at homepage curation, follow hooks and other features
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Indian social network Public App raises $41 million
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ironSource is going public via a SPAC and its numbers are pretty good
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