Social Media

2022.04.21

04:29

Vietnam plans new rule for "illegal" social media content to be removed within 24 hours

Asian Tech Press (Apr. 21) -- Vietnam is planning new rules that will require social media companies to remove what it deems "illegal" content within 24 hours.

2022.04.07

10:02

Meta removes over 400 Facebook accounts, pages groups ahead of Philippine elections

Asian Tech Press (Apr. 7) -- Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms announced Wednesday it removed a network of over 400 accounts, Pages, and Groups in the Philippines ahead of the Asian country's 2022 general election.

2022.04.01

09:57

Facebook-TikTok War: Money and Fame

Asian Tech Press (Apr. 1) -- Facebook owner Meta Platforms is reportedly paying one of the biggest GOP consulting firms to smear its rival TikTok, waging a war of money and fame in the U.S.

2022.03.04

07:04

UK asks TikTok, Meta to ban Russian news channel RT

Asian Tech Press (Mar. 4) -- Britain has asked social media companies ByteDance's TikTok and Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms to ban Russian state-owned television network RT.

2022.03.03

03:18

TikTok facing probe by U.S. states over impact on children

Asian Tech Press (Mar. 3) -- A bipartisan coalition of U.S. attorneys general launched an investigation into TikTok on Wednesday, seeking information on whether the short-video platform is causing online harms to children.

2021.12.17

07:43

TikTok to adjust algorithm to avoid reinforcement of negative content

Asian Tech Press (Dec 17) -- The most popular non-gaming app worldwide TikTok announced Thursday that it will adjust its algorithm to avoid recommending too much homogenized negative content to users.

2021.12.01

08:02

Twitter bans sharing personal images, videos without permission

Asian Tech Press (Dec 1) -- Social platform Twitter Inc (TWTR:New York) announced Tuesday that it will not allow personal media content such as photos and videos to be shared on its platform without the consent of the person depicted.

07:38

Google to disallow political advertising for 2022 Philippine elections

Asian Tech Press (Dec 1) -- Alphabet Inc's Google announced Wednesday that it will update its political content policy to ban political advertising for 2022 Philippine elections.

2021.11.19

09:34

Instagram investigated by U.S. states over impact on teens

Asian Tech Press (Nov 19) -- A bipartisan coalition of U.S. attorneys general said Thursday it has launched an investigation into Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, for promoting its social platform Instagram to teenagers despite potential harms.

2021.10.27

10:59

TikTok responds to child safety concerns at U.S. congressional hearing

Asian Tech Press (Oct 27) -- The short video platform TikTok attended a U.S. congressional hearing on Tuesday, and publicly responded to concerns about online protection for youth and data security.

2021.10.21

03:35

The Verge: Facebook plans to change company name next week

Asian Tech Press (Oct 21) -- U.S. social media giant Facebook Inc (FB:NASDAQ GS) is reportedly planning to change its company name next week.

2021.10.15

07:54

Microsoft to drop LinkedIn, launch alternative InJobs app later this year

Asian Tech Press (Oct 15) -- Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn Corp. will take down its localized version of LinkedIn in China later this year and launch its replacement, InJobs, a new, standalone job search app, the company said Thursday.

2021.10.05

15:23

Facebook says 'faulty configuration change' is root cause of six-hour outage

Asian Tech Press (Oct 5) -- The social media giant Facebook Inc (FB:NASDAQ GS) said in a post Monday evening that "a faulty configuration change" was the root cause of the day's outage across its platforms.

2021.09.24

03:34

IFR: Weibo files confidentially for secondary listing in Hong Kong

Asian Tech Press (Sep 24) -- Weibo Corp. (NASDAQ: WB), China's Twitter-like platform, has filed confidentially for a secondary listing in Hong Kong that could raise about $1 billion, IFR reported Friday, citing unnamed sources.

2021.09.10

04:36

TikTok reportedly pushes drug-related, sexually explicit content to minors

Asian Tech Press (Sep 10) -- TikTok, the most popular non-gaming app worldwide, is using its algorithm to push content related to drug peddling and pornographic sites to underage users, quickly dropping them into a bottomless pit of adult videos, according to an exclusive investigation by The Wall Street Journal.

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