In light of a recent tragedy, Instagram is updating the way it handles pictures depicting self-harm. Instagram and Facebook announced changes to their policies around content depicting cutting and other forms of self harm in dual blog posts Thursday. The changes comes about in light of the 2017 suicide of a 14 year old girl […]
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Tech platforms called to support public interest research into mental health impacts
The tech industry has been called on to share data with public sector researchers so the mental health and psychosocial impacts of their service on vulnerable users can be better understood, and also to contribute to funding the necessary independent research over the next ten years. The UK’s chief medical officers have made the call […]
View More Tech platforms called to support public interest research into mental health impactsInstagram’s Adam Mosseri to meet UK health secretary over suicide content concerns
The still fresh-in-post boss of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has been asked to meet the UK’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, to discuss the social media platform’s handling of content that promotes suicide and self harm, the BBC reports. Mosseri’s summons follows an outcry in the UK over disturbing content being recommended to vulnerable users of Instagram, following the suicide […]
View More Instagram’s Adam Mosseri to meet UK health secretary over suicide content concernsInstagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook
This is sure to exacerbate fears that Facebook will further exploit Instagram now that its founders have resigned. Instagram has been spotted prototyping a new privacy setting that would allow it to share your location history with Facebook. That means your exact GPS coordinates collected by Instagram, even when you’re not using the app, would […]
View More Instagram prototypes handing your location history to FacebookInstagram launches QR Nametags, tests school networks for teen growth
When your feed and Stories tray go stale, or your follower count stops rising, you drift away from Instagram . That’s why the app is rolling out two big new features designed to connect you to new people and diversify your graph so there’s alwasy something surprising to look at and like. Today Instagram launches […]
View More Instagram launches QR Nametags, tests school networks for teen growthMeet Adam Mosseri, the new head of Instagram
Former Facebook VP of News Feed and recently appointed Instagram VP of Product Adam Mosseri has been named the new head of Instagram following the resignation of Instagram’s founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger last week.. “We are thrilled to hand over the reins to a product leader with a strong design background and a […]
View More Meet Adam Mosseri, the new head of InstagramInstagram’s founders are reportedly resigning from Facebook
Eight years after launching Instagram and six years after selling it to Facebook, Instagram co-founders CEO Kevin Systrom and CTO Mike Krieger are leaving the company, according to The New York Times. The founders apparently did not give a reason for their departure when they informed the company today that they’re resigning and that they’ll […]
View More Instagram’s founders are reportedly resigning from FacebookHere’s what Facebook employees were saying about Holocaust denial … in 2009
Mark Zuckerberg has been in hot water this week thanks to comments he made during an interview with Kara Swisher about the kinds of content that should and shouldn’t be removed from the platform. Zuckerberg brought up Holocaust deniers as an example, saying he found them “deeply offensive,” then added, “But at the end of the day, […]
View More Here’s what Facebook employees were saying about Holocaust denial … in 2009Facebook ends its experiment with the alternative “explore” news feed
Facebook is ending its short-lived (and misguided) experiment with the alternative news feed feature called “Explore”.
In a blog post today, Facebook head of news feed, Adam Mosseri wrote:
We constantly try out new features, design changes and ranking updates to understand how we can make Facebook better for everyone. Some of these changes—like Reactions, Live Video, and… Read More
To fix itself, Twitter wants to measure ‘conversational health’
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Jack Dorsey is earnestly looking for answers.
In a tweetstorm on Thursday, the Twitter CEO said his company is searching for ways to root out trolling, bullying, hate speech, and political manipulation on the network. And in order to do that, Twitter wants to better understand the nature, or “health,” of conversations on its platform.
Through Dorsey’s Tweets, the company has put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for “Twitter Health Metrics.“
We’re committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.
— jack (@jack) March 1, 2018 Read more…
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View More To fix itself, Twitter wants to measure ‘conversational health’Facebook’s new slogan: ‘If you think we’re not good for your business, leave’
Facebook is famous for the mantra “move fast and break things.” But these days, the tech giant is all about time well spent, and with that comes a new tagline for everyone to follow:
If you don’t like us, leave.
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