Snap, the parent company of ephemeral-messaging app Snapchat, said Tuesday that its daily active user base grew 7% to 203 million in the second quarter, suggesting the company was seeing success with its revamped Android app. That’s an increase of 13 million from the 190 daily active users the company reported in the first quarter. …

Facebook said Monday that a “technical error” allowed thousands of kids who used the company’s messaging app for children to join group chats with people who weren’t approved by their parents. The app, called Messenger Kids, lets children between 6 and 12 years old send messages and video chat with family members and friends who their parents accept. For example, a …

Instagram said Thursday it’s rolling out changes to how it decides what accounts to take down, a sign that the photo sharing site is getting tougher about removing offensive content that violates its rules. The Facebook-owned company will start removing accounts that rack up a number of violations within a window of time. Currently, Instagram takes down accounts that have …

The Twitter website you once knew will soon be a thing of the past. The tech company said Monday that it redesigned its website to make the social network easier for users to navigate. The new desktop look starts rolling out globally today. Twitter tested different layouts for the site this year and settled on this one after receiving thousands …

Get ready for a flood of new Facebook apps. The social media giant said Tuesday it’s created a team, known as New Product Experimentation, to design, build and launch apps that give people “entirely new experiences for building community.” The apps could range from games to business tools.  Facebook is housing the team in a new limited liability company, the NPE …

Instagram, which has been under fire for not doing enough to combat online bullying, said Monday it’s rolling out and testing new tools to tackle the problem. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing app announced in April during Facebook‘s F8 developer conference it was experimenting with new features to combat bullying. Now Instagram is officially releasing an AI-powered feature that will let users …

Facebook’s plans to launch a new cryptocurrency called Libra in 2020 has faced pushback from lawmakers and nonprofits concerned about the social network’s seemingly endless list of scandals tied to privacy and security. On Wednesday, Facebook’s blockchain boss, David Marcus, tried to soothe those worries, reiterating in a post that the company won’t have direct control of the cryptocurrency. The …

Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, spends a lot of time pondering the impact social media has on free speech. A constitutional law scholar, he often considers how power imbalances can stifle some voices. Not long ago, Feldman wondered whether Facebook could take a page from the legal system. The world’s biggest social network, he thought, could set …

Facebook changed the way we communicate. Now the social media giant wants to change how its roughly 2.4 billion users think about using a cryptocurrency to make everyday purchases. Earlier this week, the social network and its partners unveiled a global digital coin called Libra, confirming details of a project that had been leaking out in dribs and drabs for months. …

Some of the workers saw video of a man being stabbed to death. Others viewed acts of bestiality or animals being tortured. Suicides and beheadings popped up too. The reason for watching the gruesome content: to determine whether it should be pulled from Facebook before more members of the world’s largest social network could see it. Content moderators protect Facebook’s …