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Now that we're all used to seeing tweets from randos we don't follow in our feeds, Twitter is introducing a new way for you to discover just how many bad opinions are really out there about the things you care most about. Meet Topics. Essentially, Topics wi…

NEW RESOURCES Oskaloosa Herald: Family photos connect Iowans to history. “ Fabos discovered the original Fortepan photo archive in 2013 in Hungary, where she was a Fulbright scholar. The project began when a group of friends in Budapest rescued a di…

By Aaron Kesel Facebook states that even after the company locked down its Groups’ application programming interface (API) last year, some app developers retained improper access to information about the site’s millions of members, according to a Facebook bl…

This week, amid leaked documents and criticism from both politicians and billionaires, Facebook has faced new challenges across three familiar issue areas — anti-competitive acquisitions, content moderation, and privacy violations. Business Insider Intelli…

IF THIS ARTICLE were a TikTok video, it would already be almost overand you would be smiling. TikToks 15-second clips are all the rage among teenage netizens. The app was downloaded more than 750m times in the past 12 months, more than Facebook plus its siste…

IF THIS ARTICLE were a TikTok video, it would already be almost overand you would be smiling. TikToks 15-second clips are all the rage among teenage netizens. The app was downloaded more than 750m times in the past 12 months, more than Facebook plus its siste…

After years of delays, the company is finally shipping meaningful features  and at a surprising clip Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This story is part of a group of stories called One of my chief criticisms of Twitter over the years has been that…

The way you use Twitter could soon fundamentally change. The company is now starting to roll out its latest feature designed to make Twitter a more friendly place to its users: the ability to follow specific topics the same way you might follow individual ac…

A bipartisan group of lawmakers want social media platforms to be more transparent about how they sort the information users see on their sites and give users the chance to opt out of content curation. The Filter Bubble Transparency Act, introduced Tuesday i…

Theres a new bill circulating in the Senate that would require large internet companies to disclose that their results are using “opaque algorithms” and offer consumers an option to see non-personalized search results or content, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)…