Former YouTube Moderator Sues Company for Work-related Trauma
A former YouTube moderator decided to sue her former employer, arguing that watching videos that often depicted very violent scenes for several hours a day result in her suffering from depression and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Bart Swiatek
September 22, 2020
Engineer Leaves Facebook Saying the Company Makes Money on Hate
One of Facebook's software engineers decided to give up his job in the company because, in his opinion, the company makes money on hatred and its only goal is profit.
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Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
September 9, 2020
Facebook Sues Dealer of Fake Likes on Instagram
Facebook has taken legal action against a developer selling likes on Instagram.
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Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
August 31, 2020
Reddit Users Banned in Spades for Hate Speech
Reddit's authorities have started banning users who promote hate speech. Since the change of content rules, 7 thousand accounts that violated the new rules have been removed.
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Karol Laska
August 20, 2020
Facebook is a Threat to Public Health? Specialists Warn
A lot of information on Facebook can be a health hazard. Avaaz is presenting a report on the increase in harmful content related to the pandemic and medicine in general.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
August 20, 2020
As Much as Half of Young Americans Would Like TikTok Back
A survey conducted on TruePublic was used to gather the opinions of US citizen on the ban imposed on TikTok. Most people disagree with Donald Trump's decision.
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Karol Laska
August 15, 2020
Facebook Sued for Ulawful Collection of Biometric Data
The California state court has received serious accusations that Facebook is illegally collecting biometric data of Instagram users.
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Karol Laska
August 13, 2020
Reels - Facebook Launches Competition for TikTok
Facebook officially revealed Reels - a new Instagram feature and competition for TikTok. The service is available in over 50 countries.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 5, 2020
Twitter - Phone Numbers Added for Protection Were Used to Make Money
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Twitter in connection with a case of „unintentional” selling of access to the emails and telephone numbers provided by users as part of a two-step verification, among other things, to advertisers.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 5, 2020
Google Maps Like Facebook - We Can Follow Our Friends
Google Maps app has received an update, which resembles solutions known from social network websites. It enables us to follow users, thanks to which we receive information about their content and recommendations.
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Bart Swiatek
July 31, 2020
YouTube Will Disable the Option of Adding Subtitles
YouTube has decided that the option to add subtitles to videos will be removed due to its low popularity and unethical abuse.
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Karol Laska
July 30, 2020
U.S. Army Recruits Teenagers on Twitch and Goes Ban-happy About It
The official esports team of the US Army bans access to Twitch chat en masse. All because of actions read by many as „treacherous” recruitment tactics.
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Jacob Blazewicz
July 16, 2020
Facebook and Instagram Will Enable Blocking of Political Ads
American Facebook and Instagram users have been given the opportunity to block advertising related to politics, elections and social issues.
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Bart Swiatek
July 10, 2020
Death Threats Aimed at Actress Playing Abby in The Last of Us 2
Laura Bailey, the actress playing Abby in The Last of Us 2, admitted on Twitter that she received numerous threatening messages from players who didn't like the plot of the game and the actions of the character she played.
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Conrad Hazi
July 5, 2020
PlayStation Boycotts Facebook as Part of #StopHateForProfit
Sony Interactive Entertainment has decided to temporarily suspend its PlayStation-related Facebook and Instagram activities. This is another company that has supported #StopHateForProfit in the fight against disinformation and hate speech.
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Jacob Blazewicz
July 3, 2020
New Convenient Way to Delete Old Facebook Posts
Facebook begins releasing a tool to help manage our content. With it, we can, for example, delete our old posts.
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Mateusz Popielak
June 3, 2020
Decision to Delay PS5 Game Presentation is Adored on Twitter
The information about the postponement of Sony's online event, originally scheduled for this Thursday, published on Twitter collected nearly 537 thousand likes in less than two days. This makes it the most „liked” post related to digital entertainment on the website.
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Milosz Szubert
June 3, 2020
Revolt of Facebook Employees
In response to Mark Zuckerberg's assurance that he would not moderate Donald Trump's entries, Facebook employees organized a virtual protest.
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Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
June 2, 2020
Trump Suggests He May Help Shut Down Twitter
Is there going to be a war between social media and politics? Twitter has marked Donald Trump's entries as „misleading”, Mark Zuckerberg criticizes the website's actions, and the president himself threatens to shut down „social networks that try to silence conservatives”. Things are getting interesting.
Tech
May 28, 2020
LoL Official Forum Will be Closed
Riot Games has announced that the official forum of League of Legends will close on March 16, this year. The community has launched an action to backup all threads and files.
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Paul Wozniak
March 2, 2020