Facebook parent company Meta has announced that it is testing new ways for users to customize the content they see in their News Feeds. The company said in a blog post that the test, available to a few users, would…
YouTube has announced that it’ll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site. The company says the change is to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks or harassment, and to promote “respectful interactions between viewers…
Epic Games has announced that its work to bring video game mega-title Fortnite to the Chinese market is shutting down. The company said in an official announcement that the long-running test of the popular shooter title in China will conclude…
Snap crossed $1 billion in revenue for the first time, added 13 million daily users, and doubled submissions to Spotlight, its relatively new TikTok rival. But it has also run into a serious problem: Apple’s ad tracking changes, which have…
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it would start removing “severe sexualizing content” targeting public figures as part of a new update to its bullying and harassment policies. The policy changes also include coordinated harassment attacks against users. Facebook said that…
Many Facebook and its products including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus faced an outage that started just before noon ET and took nearly six hours before it was resolved. This is the worst outage for Facebook since a 2019 incident…
Amazon has launched Prime Video Channels in India, allowing its customers to subscribe to eight streaming services including Discovery+ and Mubi from one hub (Prime Video website or app), the latest in a series of efforts by the U.S. giant…
Facebook has announced the launch of new products and features for business owners, following the threat to its ad targeting business driven by Apple’s new privacy features, which now allow mobile users to opt out of being tracked across their…
Twitter started testing one of its proposed new privacy tools to remove followers from an account without blocking them. The remove follower feature is currently tested in the web version and might soon be introduced to worldwide users as a…
The city of Chicago has sued food delivery services DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly using deceptive and unfair tactics that hurt restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic. The two lawsuits accuse the services of an array of misconduct, including falsely advertising…
