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Now playing: Watch this: CNET UK Podcast 544: We debate 8K and Twitter faces the… 35:10 Twitter, Facebook and Google are in a showdown with politicians. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg were the latest tech titans to face questioning.  Katie Collins and Richard Trenholm weigh up Dorsey’s performance this week as …

A Senate hearing on Wednesday was supposed to put Facebook and Twitter under the microscope, but Chinese device makers Huawei and ZTE ended up catching some of the flak, too. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg came to Capitol Hill to offer insight about how foreign governments are using their sites to spread misinformation on social media …

Twitter returned to its role of punching bag Wednesday over suggestions of partisan bias, at a US House hearing grilling CEO Jack Dorsey. A Senate hearing earlier in the day, which also questioned Facebook‘s Sheryl Sandberg, barely mentioned political censorship, but the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee opened its session with words about bias and “shadow banning.” “We hope you can …

Do big tech companies need more government oversight? That’s the question Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai pondered in a blog post Tuesday, just as Congress prepares to grill executives from Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday. Specifically, Pai said companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter need to be more transparent about how they operate their social media platforms. “Currently, the FCC …

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday touted two new features the platform is “playing with” in an effort to make it more conversational. They’re called reply threading and presence. Reply threading shows responses as nested, indented tweets, similar to Facebook or Reddit. Some replies are color-coded, too. Twitter is testing out reply-threading (note the indented, color-coded reply) and presence (note …

Tumblr’s updated community guidelines are targeting hate speech, violence and unwanted sexualization. On Monday, the social networking site posted details about the update, which goes into effect Sept. 10. Tumblr noted that the section on hate speech removes this paragraph: “If you encounter negative speech that doesn’t rise to the level of violence or threats of violence, we encourage you to dismantle …

Not everyone is an expert. That’s the message an ad campaign called Don’t Believe Every Tweet — seemingly from Twitter itself — is trying to drive home. The irony, though, is the campaign isn’t an effort by the platform to educate users about being critical of what they see. It’s the work of a 35-year-old Los Angeles-based writer and director …

Have you ever wished you ever hit send on a tweet and wished later you could go back and edit it? Maybe there was a typo. Maybe you realised your sarcasm didn’t translate. Maybe your husband tweeted something a bit out there that you think he should tone down a tad. I’ve been there, you’ve been there and Kim Kardashian …

Twitter is still figuring out how to remove the poison from parts of its social network, but the company also wants you to focus on the good — and today, it’s announcing a whole bunch of changes that could make it easier to follow live news events on the platform, including the World Cup. In short: Breaking news and “personalized …

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has redefined Twitter. The US president has become a force to be reckoned with on the social media platform, dictating policy via tweets, firing off midnight missives, blocking his dissenters and redefining the diplomatic agenda (hashtag Little Rocket Man). But while his opponents argue that Trump’s behaviour on Twitter contravenes the platform’s terms of …