Eleven-year-old Selena was apparently so addicted to Instagram and Snapchat that she suffered depression, eating disorders and sleep deprivation, before eventually killing herself, her mother Tammy Rodriguez claims. The woman, from Connecticut, sued the companies in San Francisco federal court this week. According to the lawsuit, filed on Thursday against …
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The site Downdetector began showing a spike in reports of outages starting at 12:40pm Eastern time on Tuesday, affecting Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, Spotify, and TikTok, as well as e-commerce sites Target, Etsy, Shopify, and Home Depot, among others. Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cloudflare were also affected. …
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Representatives of TikTok, YouTube and Snap, the developer of Snapchat, appeared before the Senate consumer protection subcommittee on Tuesday. They were summoned as Facebook faces intense scrutiny and renewed backlash following a whistleblower complaint. Former product manager Frances Haugen alleged earlier this month that Mark Zuckerberg’s company has been prioritizing …
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A flurry of problems were reported on the site on Thursday, with outage tracker DownDetector showing nearly 130,000 complaints at their peak. Snapchat’s support team assured that it is “aware of an issue preventing some Snapchatters from logging in,” requesting that users “hang tight” as it works on a solution. Patience was apparently a …
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Fleets allowed mobile Twitter users to post pictures, videos, audio, and text in a separate media feed from their normal timeline and see them disappear in 24 hours. Now the feature itself has been given an expiration date, the platform announced on Friday, saying the less-than-popular novelty will be officially …
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“In the interest of public safety, and based on [Trump’s] attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence, which are clear violations of our guidelines, we have made the decision to permanently terminate his account,” a spokesperson for Snap Inc., which owns Snapchat, told Axios on Wednesday. The company said the decision …
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The professional networking site has over 700 million users worldwide and has been testing its new look, complete with the Stories function, for the past few months in Brazil, the Netherlands, Australia, UAE and France. Recently, users in the US and Canada were given access to the new LinkedIn, and …
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