SOCIAL

1. Twitter labeled 300,000 US election tweets — around 0.2%
2. Facebook’s Snapchat-like ‘Vanish Mode’ feature arrives on Messenger and Instagram
3. Facebook loses final appeal in defamation takedown case, must remove same and similar hate posts globally
4. Instagram redesign puts Reels and Shop tabs on the home screen
5. Twitter brings its Stories feature, Fleets, to Japan
6. Facebook extends its temporary ban on political ads for another month
7. Mirror founder Brynn Putnam on life with Lululemon — and whether or not she sold too soon
8. Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
9. ‘Free speech’ social network Parler tops app store rankings following Biden’s election win
10. Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence
11. Facebook takes down ‘Stop the Steal 2020’ group organizing around false claims of election chicanery
12. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly looking for $2B before its Hong Kong public offering
13. TikTok takes down some hashtags related to election misinformation, leaves others
14. Facebook blocks hashtags for #sharpiegate, #stopthesteal election conspiracies
15. TikTok tests a Learn tab to showcase education and how-to videos
16. WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages, which disappear after 7 days
17. Twitter restricts Trump’s tweet claiming that foes would ‘steal’ the election
18. Facebook and Instagram notifications warn U.S. users there’s no winner yet in Presidential Election
19. Twitter hides Trump tweet attacking Supreme Court’s decision on Pennsylvania ballots
20. What social networks have learned since the 2016 election
21. Twitter explains how it will handle misleading tweets about the US election results
22. TikTok stars got a judge to block Trump’s TikTok ban
23. Facebook hits pause on algorithmic recommendations for political and social issue groups
24. Facebook is limiting distribution of ‘save our children’ hashtag over QAnon ties
25. WhatsApp is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day
26. Ad revenues and e-commerce boom boost Facebook earnings but US users down from COVID surge
27. Twitter revenue rises 14%, but user growth fails to impress
28. Twitter’s API access changes are chasing away third-party developers
29. Trump hints at stopping “powerful” big tech in latest ‘get out the vote’ tweet
30. LinkedIn’s Career Explorer helps you identify new kinds of jobs based on the skills you have
31. We need new business models to burst old media filter bubbles
32. True, the social networking app that promises to ‘protect your privacy,’ exposed private messages and user locations
33. Instagram extends time limits on live streams to 4 hours, will soon support archiving
34. Upstream aims to be the new home for your professional social life
35. Top Facebook India executive Ankhi Das leaves the company
36. TikTok partners with Shopify on social commerce
37. Face to Face, Tinder’s opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally
38. Video creation and editing platform InVideo raises $15 million
39. Former Facebook and Pinterest exec Tim Kendall traces “extractive business models” to VCs
40. Daily Crunch: Facebook launches cloud gaming service
41. Twitter starts showing all US users election misinformation warnings
42. Decrypted: How Twitter was hacked, GitHub DMCA backfires
43. Daily Crunch: Facebook Dating comes to Europe
44. President Trump’s Twitter accessed by security expert who guessed password ‘maga2020!’
45. 3 reforms social media platforms should make in light of ‘The Social Dilemma’
46. Facebook’s controversial Oversight Board starts reviewing content moderation cases
47. Facebook adds hosting, shopping features, and pricing tiers to WhatsApp Business
48. Facebook Dating launches in Europe after 9-month+ delay over privacy concerns
49. TikTok details how it’s taking further action against hateful ideologies
50. Facebook is working on Neighborhoods, a Nextdoor clone based on local groups
51. Gowalla is being resurrected as an augmented reality social app
52. Instagram rolls out fan badges for live videos, expands IGTV ads test
53. Vectary, a design platform for 3D and AR, raises $7.3M from EQT and Blueyard
54. Daily Crunch: Pakistan un-bans TikTok
55. Who regulates social media?
56. Facebook introduces a new Messenger API with support for Instagram
57. Pakistan lifts ban on TikTok
58. Instagram’s handling of kids’ data is now being probed in the EU
59. Daily Crunch: Twitter walks back New York Post decision
60. Twitter is now allowing users to share that controversial New York Post story
61. We need universal digital ad transparency now
62. Twitter changes its hacked materials policy in wake of New York Post controversy
63. YouTube bans videos promoting conspiracy theories like QAnon that target individuals
64. Pew: Most prolific Twitter users tend to be Democrats, but majority of users still rarely tweet
65. Snapchat launches its TikTok rival, Sounds on Snapchat
66. France and the Netherlands signal support for EU body to clip the wings of big tech
67. Messenger’s latest update brings new features, cross-app communication with Instagram
68. If data is labor, can collective bargaining limit big tech?
69. Facebook, in a reversal, will now ban Holocaust denial content under its hate-speech policy
70. Facebook EU-US data transfer complaint: Schrems gets a judicial review of the Irish DPC’s procedure
71. Facebook and Instagram will pin vote-by-mail explainers to top of feeds
72. Changing how retweets work, Twitter seeks to slow down election misinformation
73. Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos
74. High-profile startup execs back Indian influencers platform CreatorOS
75. Facebook: Trump can’t recruit ‘army’ of poll watchers under new voter intimidation rules
76. Decrypted: The major ransomware attack you probably didn’t hear about
77. Instagram’s Threads app now lets you message everyone, like its Direct app once did
78. Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms
79. Twitter tests a new way to find accounts to follow
80. Trump breaks platform rules again with false claim that COVID-19 is ‘far less lethal’ than the flu
81. Cambridge Analytica sought to use Facebook data to predict partisanship for voter targeting, UK investigation confirms
82. Instagram’s 10th birthday release introduces a Stories Map, custom icons and more
83. Instagram expands shopping on IGTV, plans test of shopping on Reels
84. Twitter will make users remove tweets hoping Trump dies of COVID-19
85. Daily Crunch: Twitter confronts image-cropping concerns
86. Twitter is building ‘Birdwatch,’ a system to fight misinformation by adding more context to tweets
87. Twitter may let users choose how to crop image previews after bias scrutiny
88. Facebook sues two companies engaged in data scraping operations
89. Facebook won’t accept ads that ‘delegitimize’ US election results
90. Ethel’s Club founder is launching Somewhere Good, a social platform that centers people of color
91. Twitter confirms some service flakiness today — now fixed
92. After breach, Twitter hires a new cybersecurity chief
93. Brands building for scale should look to hypercultural Latinx consumers
94. Facebook introduces cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram, plus other features
95. Facebook names VP of product growth Alex Schultz as new CMO
96. Ringing alarm bells, Biden campaign calls Facebook ‘foremost propagator’ of voting disinformation
97. Pivoting during a pandemic
98. Facebook introduces Accounts Center, a tool for managing a growing number of cross-app settings
99. New program wants to be the Y Combinator for emerging fund managers
100. Deep Science: Robot perception, acoustic monitoring, using ML to detect arthritis
101. Apple is (temporarily) waiving its App Store fee for Facebook’s online events
102. LinkedIn launches Stories, plus Zoom, BlueJeans and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign
103. Facebook gives more details about its efforts against hate speech before Myanmar’s general election
104. India’s ShareChat raises $40 million, says its short-video platform Moj now reaches 80 million users
105. Instagram’s TikTok clone Reels updates to allow longer videos, easier edits
106. Pinterest officially launches new Story Pins format in beta
107. Facebook denies it will pull service in Europe over data transfer ban
108. Social networks are doing a voter registration blitz this week
109. Chinese propaganda network on Facebook used AI-generated faces
110. Event discovery network IRL raises $16M Series B after refocusing on virtual events
111. TikTok says it removed 104M videos in H1 2020, proposes harmful content coalition with other social apps
112. Daily Crunch: This TikTok deal is pretty confusing
113. TikTok fact checks: US IPO, Chinese ownership, $5B in taxes
114. Facebook’s new Rights Manager tool lets creators protect their photos, including those embedded elsewhere
115. Instagram CEO, ACLU slam TikTok and WeChat app bans for putting US freedoms into the balance
116. Daily Crunch: Twitter tightens security ahead of election
117. Twitter tightens account security for political candidates ahead of US election
118. Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, an app for managing business accounts across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger
119. Facebook addresses political controversy in India, monetization opportunities, startup investments
120. Twitter flags Indian politician’s years-old tweet for violating its policy
121. Triller aims for TikTok with additions of influencers like Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae
122. Twitter debuts US election hub to help people navigate voting in 2020
123. Facebook launches a climate change information center and commits to eliminating ‘scope 3’ emissions by 2030
124. Facebook announces $4.3 million grant for small businesses in India, introduces support for gift cards
125. Leaked memo excoriates Facebook’s ‘slapdash and haphazard’ response to global political manipulation
126. YouTube launches its TikTok rival, YouTube Shorts, initially in India
127. TikTok hits 100M users in Europe as the clock ticks on its US business
128. YouTube hit with UK class action style suit seeking $3BN+ for ‘unlawful’ use of kids’ data
129. Facebook introduces a co-viewing experience in Messenger, ‘Watch Together’
130. China may kill TikTok’s US operations rather than see them sold
131. As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing
132. Facebook seeks fresh legal delay to block order to suspend its transatlantic data transfers
133. TikTok fixes Android bugs that could have led to account hijacks
134. Daily Crunch: Facebook launches a college-only network
135. Twitter’s rules address worries over ‘peaceful transfer of power’ in US election
136. Facebook returns to its roots with Campus, a college student-only social network
137. In a startup reprise, Courtne Smith launches NewNew, a social network based on shared content
138. Snapchat’s new Lens celebrates tomorrow’s NFL kickoff
139. Twitter begins adding headlines and descriptions to some of its ‘trends’
140. TikTok is trying to remove a disturbing video showing up on people’s For You pages
141. TikTok joins Europe’s code on tackling hate speech
142. Local governments that embrace digital services during challenging times can make real change happen
143. Tinder’s interactive video event ‘Swipe Night’ will launch in international markets this month
144. Facebook to warn third-party developers of vulnerable code
145. Twitter and Facebook wrestle with Trump telling Americans to vote twice
146. As it awaits its US fate, TikTok doubles down on its revenue funnel with marketing partners
147. Facebook Watch is getting 1.25B visitors each month
148. Facebook to block new political ads 1 week before Nov 3, adds more tools and rules for fair elections
149. Facebook’s photo porting tool adds support for Dropbox and Koofr
150. Facebook bans politician of India’s ruling party for violating hate speech