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In April, we launched Twitter Lite, a new mobile web experience that minimizes data usage, loads quicker on slower connections, and is more resilient on unreliable mobile networks. Since then we’ve seen an increase in engagement — for example, Tweets...

Instagram has announced that the social media service is being used by 25 million businesses as of November. It has seen strong growth over the last few months as business users have increased by 9 million in the last four months. Instagram shared the...

As if there wasn't enough confusion over how Twitter handles abuse on its service... The social network on Friday said it's still trying to justify why it's leaving up a series of graphic anti-Muslim tweets and videos retweeted by President Donald Trump...

Instagram has not been shy about competing head-to-head with Snapchat, and a new update today continues that trend. In a blog post, Instagram announced a new feature that allows users to “remix” photos from friends… The company says that, when viewing...

A UK parliamentary committee that’s investing fake news has been told by Facebook and Twitter they will provide information relating to Russian interference during the UK’s 2016 Brexit referendum vote in the coming weeks. With election disinformation...

Over the holiday weekend, The New York Times found that one of its Twitter accounts had been locked. @nytimesworld was frozen for a full 24 hours over an innocuous tweet about a story in which Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized for the...

This is software to save lives. Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact...

YouTube is firefighting another child safety content moderation scandal which has led several major brands to suspend advertising on its platform. On Friday investigations by the BBC and The Times reported finding obscene comments on videos of children...

Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that will show how many people are “talking about” individual, popular tweets. The metric shows up under some embedded tweets when they appear elsewhere on the web, and seems to replace both the retweet and...

Ask teenagers how many 'streaks' they have going, and they'll know exactly what you're referring to. That's how many people they've been Snapchatting back and forth with for consecutive days. It's actually addicting, they'll tell you. So much so, Facebook...