As people all over the world livestream protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, …

Twitter has permanently removed 32,242 accounts that were found to be state-backed operations from China, Russia and Turkey. The accounts were suspended for violating the social media company’s platform manipulation policy. It’s publishing the accounts to its archive of foreign influence campaigns, Twitter said in a blog post published Thursday. Of those accounts, Twitter said 23,750 were linked with being part …

Snapchat, like many companies, is pursuing augmented reality at a fever pitch, with AR-enabled smartglasses on the horizon. The company’s newest AR tools, introduced at its developer summit Thursday, are going even further, introducing world-mapping, collaborative AR capabilities into city-block-sized experiences. They’re called Local Lenses and promise to transform whole real-life neighborhoods into interactive art pieces. Snapchat’s previous Landmark Lenses worked …