Creators are aghast at the terms of Facebook’s Patreon competitor
Always tryna pocket that cash.Image: Chesnot/Getty ImagesImitation is the sincerest form of petty theft. Facebook invited some page owners to try out its Fan Subscription service Monday night, a new feature that directly competes...
Daily Crunch: Instacart CEO apologizes
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We dismantle Facebook’s memo defending its ‘Research’
Facebook published an internal memo today trying to minimize the morale damage of TechCrunch’s investigation that revealed it’d been paying people to suck in all their phone data. Attained by Business Insider’s...
Senator Warner calls on Zuckerberg to support market research consent rules
In response to TechCrunch’s investigation of Facebook paying teens and adults to install a VPN that lets it analyze all their phone’s traffic, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Mark...
‘Cowards and traitors’ – how Twitter reacted
Image copyright PA A group of former Labour MPs have been called "cowards and traitors" on social media after quitting the party.The seven faced calls on Twitter to stand down...
Facebook Has Finally Rolled Out A Feature We’ve All Been Begging For For Years
Facebook has announced it is giving everybody the option to “Unsend” – delete and actually remove – messages in its instant messaging app Messenger. You might remember the furore last spring when it was...
