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You can now delete a photo from an Instagram carousel

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Post Views: 472 We’ll start by noting that you can’t delete one image from a two-photo carousel, potentially because that would make it a single-item post and mess with something inside Instagram, though we can’t say for sure. These steps will only work with a post stocked with at least three pieces of media. First,…

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Polite warnings are surprisingly good at reducing hate speech on social media

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Post Views: 340 Researchers from NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics had an idea: What if you tracked the followers of accounts that were banned for hate speech, and sent these followers (who also used hate speech in their tweets) a warning about their bad behaviors? Would these users be pressured into changing what…

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Twitter’s fledgling misinformation tool is adding aliases

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Post Views: 383 If you haven’t heard of Birdwatch before, here’s what you missed: Twitter started the program around the beginning of this year, with the goal of allowing users to collaboratively fact-check tweets and combat misinformation by flagging misleading posts and providing notes to give more context. In a thread, the Birdwatch account noted…

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Twitter’s new policy aims to protect private individuals in photos

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Post Views: 397 In response to “growing concerns” about how media is being shared on Twitter, the company said Tuesday that it was expanding its privacy protections to include images and videos of people posted without their consent. This means that Twitter will now consider removing media featuring private individuals, defined as people who do…

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A look inside TikTok’s seemingly all-knowing algorithm

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Post Views: 346 This simplified breakdown of the algorithm offered “a revealing glimpse both of the app’s mathematical core and insight into the company’s understanding of human nature — our tendencies toward boredom, our sensitivity to cultural cues — that help explain why it’s so hard to put down,” wrote the Times. But it also…

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It’s time to purge the worst people in your social media feeds

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Post Views: 315 Instagram has a way for you to see who you’ve interacted with least often: Tap your profile button (bottom right), then Following, and Least Interacted With. You’ll see the people you don’t often chat with or whose photos you rarely like and comment on. Simply tap Following to sever your Instagram connection…

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Here are all the changes Instagram promised Congress it would make

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Post Views: 361 Much of the recent attention on Meta has been in response to leaks from former Facebook employee France Haugen, who also took a turn testifying in October. Among the internal documents she shared were studies on children and teens, including research that found Instagram to have a negative effect on the self-esteem…