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ByteDance CFO assumes role as new TikTok CEO

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 30, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment

Eight months after former TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer quit in the midst of a full-court press from the Trump administration against the Chinese-owned social media giant, TikTok finally has a new permanent leader. ByteDance’s recently hired CFO Shouzi Chew will be assuming the role as TikTok CEO

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Computer vision inches toward ‘common sense’ with Facebook’s latest research

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 30, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment
Computer vision inches toward ‘common sense’ with Facebook’s latest research

Machine learning is capable of doing all sorts of things as long as you have the data to teach it how. That’s not always easy, and researchers are always looking for a way to add a bit of “common sense” to AI so you don’t have to

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Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 30, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment

YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook’s Instagram have upended the film and TV industries, with a new wave of cinematographers, directors and actors leveraging innovations in technology to create new work and connect directly with billions of consumers to see it. Today, a startup is announcing some

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Instagram Live takes on Clubhouse with options to mute and turn off the video

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 29, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment

In addition to Facebook’s Clubhouse competitor built within Messenger Rooms and its experiments with a Clubhouse-like Q&A platform on the web, the company is now leveraging yet another of its largest products to take on the Clubhouse threat: Instagram Live. Today, Instagram announced it’s adding new features

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EU adopts rules on one-hour takedowns for terrorist content

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 29, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment

The European Parliament approved a new law on terrorist content takedowns yesterday, paving the way for one-hour removals to become the legal standard across the EU. The regulation “addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online” will come into force shortly after publication in the EU’s Official Journal

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Facebook hid posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India ‘by mistake’

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 28, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment
Facebook hid posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India ‘by mistake’

Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.” Updated at 5.50am IST, Thursday: Facebook says it temporarily blocked the hashtag by “mistake” and “not because the Indian government asked us to, and have since

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Telegram to add group video calls next month

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 28, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment

Group video calls will be coming to Telegram’s messaging platform next month with what’s being touted as a fully featured implementation, including support for web-based videoconferencing. Founder Pavel Durov made the announcement via a (text) message posted to his official Telegram channel today where he wrote “we

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Social networking app for women, Peanut, adds live audio rooms

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 27, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment

Mobile social networking app for women, Peanut, is today becoming the latest tech company to integrate audio into its product following the success of Clubhouse. Peanut, which began with a focus on motherhood, has expanded over the years to support women through all life stages, including pregnancy,

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TikTok to open a ‘Transparency’ Center in Europe to take content and security questions

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 27, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment

TikTok will open a center in Europe where outside experts will be shown information on how it approaches content moderation and recommendation, as well as platform security and user privacy, it announced today. The European Transparency and Accountability Centre (TAC) follows the opening of a U.S. center

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The next tech hearing targets social media algorithms — and YouTube, for once

By CarolynClarkDFW on April 26, 2021   /   Social Media   /   Leave a comment
The next tech hearing targets social media algorithms — and YouTube, for once

Another week, another big tech hearing in Congress. With a flurry of antitrust reform bills on the way, Democratic lawmakers are again bringing in some of the world’s most powerful tech companies for questioning. In the next hearing, scheduled for Tuesday, April 27 at 10 AM ET,

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