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Twitter is a confounding place for many reasons, but perhaps its oddest quirk is that since its founding in 2006, it hasn’t had an edit button. That may change, and soon. CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly told an audience in India that the company is considering adding the edit functionality to tweets, primarily to fix typos. “We …

Google is committed to diversity and supports its employees in their protests, the company’s financial chief said Monday. Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet and Google, said Monday during the Wall Street Journal D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., that she participated in this month’s walkouts with her financial team.  “Diversity overall makes an organization stronger,” she said. “People …

Twitter has apologized to a user who said the company failed to act when she reported receiving a threatening tweet that turned out to be from Cesar Sayoc, the man charged with sending pipe bombs to former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. In a series of tweets Friday evening, the company said it should’ve removed the threatening message …

Twitter reportedly suspended a bot network pushing a pro-Saudi Arabia message regarding vanished journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The social network was reportedly alerted to the bots by NBC News, which on Thursday gave them a list of hundreds of accounts that “tweeted and retweeted the same pro-Saudi government tweets” simultaneously. An unidentified Twitter spokesperson told the outlet that the accounts were …

Starting at around 9:30 a.m. PT, Twitter users with mobile notifications turned on started to receive alerts that said… nothing. The messages, containing strings of nonsensical characters and numbers, swamped phones, but when opened, they simply went to whatever part of Twitter users last had open. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged the issue Tuesday morning, in a tweet showing a …

Silicon Valley tech moguls might disagree about the best way to help the area’s homeless population, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff doesn’t think now is the time for debate.  “There is no ultimate solution and it’s going to be a lot of things,” Benioff said at the WIRED25 conference in San Francisco on Monday. Last week, Benioff clashed with Twitter …

Social media sites such as Twitter can reinforce certain political viewpoints or biases by surfacing posts they think its users want to see. It’s a problem that Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey admits the company is trying to solve, but he’s not blaming it on the algorithms. “I think Twitter does contribute to filter bubbles, and I think that’s …

Google has been experimenting with a censored search engine that would work in China, but it’s not sure if it will ever launch the service, CEO Sundar Pichai said Monday.  Pichai, speaking during the Wired25 conference at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, said Google started the internal project — dubbed Project Dragonfly — to see what was possible in …

With the US midterm elections just over a month away, Twitter’s cracking down on fake accounts. “We now may remove fake accounts engaged in a variety of emergent, malicious behaviors,” the company said in a blog post on its elections integrity work. It’s expanded its rules for identifying fake accounts, looking for stock or stolen avatar photos, stolen or copied …

You know that feeling when something is important to you but other people just don’t care? That’s how some congressional lawmakers felt this week after Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and, notably, no one from Google testified for a combined eight hours before two committees. The hearings were kind of important, given that they focused on hot-button …