Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will 'pour enough gasoline' on Threads to make it grow when it's ready for prime time

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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Russia Is Censoring Its Biggest Social Network 30 Times More Since Invading Ukraine

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VKontakte (VK), Russia’s homegrown Facebook clone and its biggest social network, saw a whopping 30-fold increase in censorship requests from government officials during the eight-month period following the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to a new report.

Twitter abruptly took the @x username from the guy who originally had it. Read the email he was sent offering an 'exclusive visit' to Elon Musk's rebranded X HQ.

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Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter.

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Elon Musk changed up his much-derided new 'X' Twitter logo by making the lines a teeny bit thicker, then almost immediately changed it back

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In this photo illustration, the new Twitter logo rebranded as X (X Corp.) is seen on a smartphone and Elon Musk Twitter account with the new X logo on a pc screen.
The original X logo, which is set to return.

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Elon Musk's Twitter X rebrand is actually quite popular among users

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TikTok Is Going to Sell Cheap Junk in Competition With Shein and Temu

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TikTok is set to launch an e-commerce platform to sell Chinese-made goods to its millions of American users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

Twitter staff are helping to remove bird logos at its HQ for the X rebrand, but one reportedly broke apart and is still there

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The sign at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters began being dismantled on Monday.

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Mastodon Has a Child Abuse Material Problem, Like Every Other Major Web Platform

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A new report suggests that the lax content moderation policies of Mastodon and other decentralized social media platforms have led to a proliferation of child sexual abuse material.

Police crashed Elon Musk's attempt to take down Twitter's sign outside San Francisco headquarters

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Photo of a worker taking down letters from Twitter's sign.
Police responded to “a possible unpermitted street closure,” a representative for The San Francisco Police Department confirmed to Insider.

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No Need for Twitter—TikTok Users Can Now Make Text Posts

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TikTok is bringing text posts to its Camera page in a format that’s much like Instagram’s stories. Users can choose from a photo option, video, or text. The company announced the updated feature in a news release on Monday.

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