Snap agree to pay $35mn over illegal data

Snap agree to pay $35mn over illegal data

Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection. The lawsuit alleged that Snapchat's filters and lenses violated...


Instagram to put ads in user search results

Instagram tests disappearing-pix feature

Meta-owned platform Instagram has announced testing a new feature called ‘Candid challenges’, which works similar to the BeReal app, a social media app launched in 2020.

According to The Hindu, Instagram is not testing the a...


Twitter merges misinformation, spam prevention teams

Twitter tests special tag feature

Twitter is testing a feature to highlight accounts with a verified phone number. According to The Hindu, some users already have access to the ability to view counts for their own tweets under the ‘analytics’ label. W...