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Trolls made photos of Bianca Devins' death go viral on Instagram. Now, the teen's family wants answers. https://t.co/5buoqBWGhY
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Without money and resources, it's hard to fill the diversity gap in tech, especially for women of color. https://t.co/a8OH9TVT0d
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The heads of Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his U.K. and Australian counterparts that Facebook is moving forward with plans to enable end-to-end encryption on all of its messaging services. https://t.co/CEcWfMlrsN
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Twitter said this week it would pause plans to purge inactive accounts after some users worried about memorialized accounts of people who had died. https://t.co/Ti3FOmujvo
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Twitter is pausing its plan to erase inactive accounts after concerns emerged over the pages of deceased users. https://t.co/tJsdqa3CJc
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In response to Instagram's opaque standards for "inappropriate" content, women have started switching their gender to male on the app — and they've noticed a change in how their posts are promoted. https://t.co/YvEQr3jaug
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Amazon will challenge a $10 billion Pentagon contract awarded to Microsoft, saying the process was tainted by "political influence." https://t.co/OM9KLnmx51
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Facebook's biannual transparency report tells how it's fighting fake news and child sexual exploitation. https://t.co/PLiXI7CKZ3
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Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak joined in the online debate over accusations of gender discrimination by the algorithm behind the iPhone maker’s credit card, fueling scrutiny of the newly launched Apple Card. https://t.co/yABebbv39v
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A man said the Apple Card offered him a credit limit 20 times greater than it gave to his wife, even though she has a higher credit score. Now a NY regulator said it will investigate. https://t.co/P59zP3CSJK
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The Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract, snubbing early front-runner Amazon, https://t.co/BnXEYe4aVJ
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A Democratic lawmaker who was at Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg slammed the Facebook co-founder's revisionist history of the social media giant. https://t.co/gom2q6zpl6
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With 8chan now inaccessible, the message board’s hordes of displaced hatemongers are searching for a new place to share vile content. https://t.co/DveIreSq8s
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Facebook was the "new cigarettes" and called for the tech giant to be broken up. https://t.co/oAyT6xeWeT
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One person who watched confidence-building videos from a drag queen ended up in an echo chamber of homophobic rants. https://t.co/ZpeddlwOwk
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Transfixed Fortnite fans watched black hole for hours, wondering if anything else was going to happen. https://t.co/kxCjYmuddu
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The tech company said the app violated its rules because it was used to ambush police and by criminals who used it to victimize residents in areas with no law enforcement. https://t.co/WEOTaFoUU2
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Gaming giant Blizzard said pro gamer Blitzchung violated competition rules when he said, "Liberate Hong Kong!" in a post-game interview. https://t.co/NO3o7XTfsd
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YouTube banned supremacist content in June, but such content is still rampant on the site. Here's the latest example. https://t.co/lHN4eprXVR
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a livestreamed Q&A with employees in which he addressed leaked remarks he made in July about Sen. Elizabeth Warren as well as requests for the company to not encrypt its messaging platforms. https://t.co/Yf4dGpYHHQ
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