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by Our Source | Oct 30, 2020 | Social
With just days to go before the U.S. election, Facebook quietly suspended one of its most worrisome features. During Wednesday’s Senate hearing, Senator Ed Markey asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about reports that his company has long known its group...
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by Our Source | Oct 30, 2020 | Social
Facebook today confirmed that it will be limiting the distribution of the hashtag “save our children.” Over the past several months, the phrase — and ones like it — have become associated with QAnon. These terms have served to provide a kind of innocuous cover for the...
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by Our Source | Oct 29, 2020 | Social
WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app owned by Facebook, is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day, the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at the quarterly earnings call Thursday. For some perspective, users exchanged 100 billion messages...
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by Our Source | Oct 29, 2020 | Social
Twitter continued to see its total traffic rise in the third quarter, thanks to that trifecta of returning sports, the presidential campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic. But there wasn’t nearly enough growth to appease Wall Street. Twitter beat out analyst expectations...
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by Our Source | Oct 29, 2020 | Social
Facebook reported its Q3 earnings today, including revenues of $21.5 billion, and net income of $7.8 billion. The company earned $2.71 in per-share profit during the three-month period. Analysts had expected Facebook, the social giant, to earn a much-smaller $1.91...
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by Our Source | Oct 29, 2020 | Social
‘Twitter made it mathematically impossible to turn a profit’ Edward Tian is a computer science student at Princeton and an investigator at Bellingcat who combines technology and investigative journalism. On August 12, Twitter launched a complete rebuild of...
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