WhatsApp has received a little update today that puts your contacts from the messaging app into the share sheet suggestions across iOS on your iPhone and iPad for a smoother experience. The update makes it more seamless to share content directly with your contacts in WhatsApp from the web, apps, and everywhere else you can pull up the Share Sheet in iOS. There was previously the option to share to WhatsApp from the share sheet, but this update means you’ll get automatic suggestions for WhatsApp contacts like Apple’s Messages app does for an even faster user experience.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released last week on Nintendo Switch and it has been the top-selling video game in the UK. With the COVID-19 global pandemic and social distancing being a real serious concern in the whole world, gamers taking advantage of the hangout feature in New Horizons and hosting surprise wedding and birthday parties.

ProPublica analyzed thousands of fake and hijacked Twitter accounts to understand how covert Chinese propaganda spreads around the globe.

Apple kicked Alex Jones out of the App Store in 2018. The Google Play Store has finally followed suit.

Facebook and Google generate around $200 billion per year in advertising revenue, so you'd think that this period of self-isolation and working from home is driving more use of their services and thus, more revenue. However, brands are in a difficult position and advertising budgets are among the first things on the list of costs to cut in order to keep things afloat.

The Zoom iOS app is sharing data with Facebook, without declaring it in the privacy policy. This happens whether or not you have a Facebook account. Data shared with Facebook includes your iPhone or iPad model, your time-zone, city, phone carrier and a unique identifier which can be used for ad-targeting... The discovery was made by Motherboard and confirmed by iOS security researcher Will Strafach.

For months, the Chinese video sharing application has been facing a lot of criticism for potential security breaches, that could grant the Chinese government access to private data of over 500 million active users. Yet, an investigation published last week in the Intercept revealed even more shocking information about the platforms' attempts to grow its follower-base using censorship policies that restricted certain types of content.

Bad information about the pandemic is everywhere. This is how one dodgy post spread.

Before the coronavirus arrived ― back when I used to be able to leave my house ― I had my “real-life friends” and my “online friends,” two categorically different groups of people in my mind. My real-life friends were the people I didn’t necessarily see every single day, but with whom I had regularly shared physical experiences at some point in my life: dinners, movies, trips to exotic places.

Sometime last night, Facebook's new design layout rolled out to my personal account. It assured me that I could switch back if I didn't like it, so I immediately tried it out. I just as immediately switched it off and never looked back. At least, I never looked back until this afternoon, when the powers that be at Ars said—and I quote—"feel free to hate review it, if you want."

Facebook and Twitter revealed evidence Thursday suggesting that Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect.

It’s mostly users, not state-backed campaigns, who are pushing falsehoods online.

The professional platform is the latest social media site to offer a service where posts expire after 24 hours. But do we really need this kind of fleeting work-based chat?

Supposedly driven by the virus crisis, On-nomi (オン飲み, “Drinking on[line]”) is the practice of getting together with friends on the internet and having a drink together.

Stuck at home thanks to the coronavirus and can't keep away from Facebook, Twitter, Slack, and the like? Here's how to run them so they don't ruin your life.

Australia’s privacy watchdog is suing Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data breach — which, back in 2018, became a global scandal that wiped billions off the tech giant’s share price yet only led to Facebook picking up a $5BN FTC fine. Should Australia prevail in its suit against the tech giant the monetary penalty could be exponentially larger.

Alexis Ohanian wants you to stay home, and he’s using Times Square to send the message. The Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist has bought a billboard in the heart of New York telling people to help slow the spread of COVID-19 by staying home and away from crowds. The billboard, which will only be up today, uses a simple phrase: “Staying home means saving lives.” At the bottom is the hashtag “#FlattenTheCurve,” which refers to how slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus can help health care providers and other officials better manage the number of illnesses as the pandemic plays out.

Gotta case of the Mondays? We all suffer from this on occasion, but once it starts to turn into terrible Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, it’s time to take notice! It’s completely normal to get into a slump occasionally at work; whether the blues be weather-related, a distraction coming from your personal life, or just plain boredom! Lucky for you, we have come up with the antidote to get rid of this productivity-killing “disease”. Follow these simple steps and you’ll turn your workplace blues into workday “woo-hoos”!

THE MAKERS OF TIKTOK, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world, instructed moderators to suppress posts created by users deemed too ugly, poor, or disabled for the platform, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. These same documents show moderators were also told to censor political speech in TikTok livestreams, punishing those who harmed “national honor” or broadcast streams about “state organs such as police” with bans from the platform.

The Kardashians and the Real Housewives are talking about premade Judy survival kits. Are they any good?