Enlarge / Shadowy Slack usage. (credit: Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images) Ubiquitous work-chat platform Slack this morning rolled out a new feature, Connect DM, that allows users to send direct messages to people they don’t work with. Hours later, the company is already saying “our bad” and promising an update, […]
One of my former bosses used to kiss me. All the time. On the cheek mainly, but close enough to the mouth to make me really uncomfortable. Not that being kissed every time I saw him wasn’t bad enough. It was. He also told me when he liked something I was wearing, calling it “sexy” […]
Enlarge / That’s the book shut on one unsavory corner of the Internet… (credit: LdF | Getty Images) Reddit alternative Voat shut down on Christmas Day, citing a lack of operational funding, and casting doubt on the abilities of other similar almost-anything-goes, “free speech” platforms to stay online in the long run. “I just can’t […]
Expand / / Photo example of this Twitch emblem on a smart phone. (charge: Getty Images | Thomas Trutschel) As a part of a crackdown on”sexually concentrated terms” on its own platform, Twitch says conditions such as”simp,””incel,” along with also”virgin” will shortly be prohibited when employed as insults by streamers or even chatters on the […]
Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. To enjoy unlimited access to the journalism, subscribe now . President-elect Joe Biden isn’t a stranger to the issues plaguing social websites. Sometime during his campaign, he chased Facebook for never performing more to battle misinformation. After taking office in January, Biden […]