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Former President Trump returns to Twitter, now X, with his mugshot

Former President Trump tweeted for the first time in more than two years on Thursday night, breaking a long silence on t...
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Roblox faces a new class action lawsuit alleging it facilitates child gambling

In a new class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California this week, two parents accuse Roblox of illeg...
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Twitch will let streamers block banned users from watching streams

Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control wh...
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New York City bans TikTok on government-issued devices

New York City becomes the latest government to issue new rules banning TikTok, a measure meant to ward off potential sec...
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Baldur’s Gate 3 early review: Modern fantasy

First, the basics. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a Dungeons & Dragons game through and through, but you don’t need to be famili...
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Special counsel secured a secret search warrant for Trump’s Twitter account

New court papers first reported by Politico reveal that the special counsel investigating former President Trump secured...
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Meta starts blocking the news in Canada — its latest standoff with publishers

Canadians using Facebook and Instagram should expect to see some gaps in their feeds, starting now. This week, Meta bega...
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Discord will now let you stream Xbox gameplay directly to servers and DMs

Streaming to Twitch is one thing, but sometimes you just want to share a new game (ahem Baldur’s Gate 3) or a big ...
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A new study found that Facebook’s Pages and Groups shape its ideological echo chambers

New research published Thursday offers an unprecedented dive into political behavior across Facebook and Instagram — two...
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Former pilots recount UFO sightings as Congress pushes for transparency

A year after the first Congressional hearing on UFOs in 50 years, a House subcommittee revisited some enduring questions...
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Snap’s revenue woes continue but earnings yield a few bright spots

Snap just reported its quarterly earnings and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Snapchat’s parent company brought i...
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AOC will stream on Twitch again this weekend

Three years after her big streaming moment, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will make her return to Twitch. The lawmaker a...
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TikTok is where young LGBTQ people of color feel the safest online

While the relationship between all young people and social media is complex, yielding both positive social effects and p...
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Threads update adds translation and a flurry of minor improvements

Threads exploded onto the crowded scene of aspiring Twitter rivals earlier this month, but it’s still very early d...
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First Amendment org challenges restrictions on TikTok at Texas universities

Through a new lawsuit, a free speech group and research coalition that studies technology’s effect on society are ...
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Meta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square

In the latest sign that Meta’s new Twitter lookalike Threads is unlikely to capture the essence of its predecessor...
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Threads won’t be fun — but it will give brands a home away from Twitter

There are many Twitters now, but we may never have another Twitter again. As the eminent Twitter of its time, Twitter se...
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Threads passes 2 million downloads in 2 hours

It’s day one for Threads, Meta’s new Twitter clone, and people are signing up in droves. Threads passed two ...
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TikTok’s COO is leaving the company

TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who ...
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Elon Musk triples down on making Twitter terrible for trans people

Elon Musk, world’s richest person and ostensible champion of free speech, took to Twitter late Tuesday to stoop to...
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Roblox invites its community to build mature experiences for 17+ users

Roblox is well aware that its young users are getting older, and the company is making every effort to grow up along wit...
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Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games

Twitch is rethinking the way it flags mature content, swapping its existing toggle for a more granular set of topic-spec...
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BuzzCutt steers the sober curious toward booze-free bar and restaurant options

If you don’t drink, navigating nightlife, bars and even eating out can be an exercise in frustration. Non-alcoholic opti...
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Twitch’s new Partner Plus program offers some streamers a 70/30 revenue split

Twitch announced a new creator tier on Thursday that would restore a more favorable subscription revenue split to stream...
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Twitch backtracks on branded content changes after streamer backlash

One day after Twitch announced sweeping changes to how streamers are allowed to advertise, the company is backing off. O...
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YouTube rolls back its rules against election misinformation

YouTube was the slowest major platform to disallow misinformation during the 2020 U.S. election and almost three years l...
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Twitter’s trust and safety lead Ella Irwin resigns

Twitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin has resigned, the now-former executive confirmed to Reuters on Thurs...
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Match Group debuts Archer, a new face-first gay dating app for men

Online dating behemoth Match Group is introducing a new gay dating app, just in time for Pride. The company, which owns ...
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Twitter technical issues crash Ron DeSantis’s 2024 campaign announcement

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was set to announce his 2024 presidential campaign on a Twitter Space with Elon Musk today...
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Elon Musk ushers in DeSantis’s 2024 campaign, signaling a new era for Twitter

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed the paperwork to officially launch his presidential campaign on this afternoon, but ...
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