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This week in Hard Refresh: Social we review Facebook Marketplace, TikTok resumes, Hurricane Elsa, & more!
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2 min readJul 9, 2021
- Facebook, Twitter, and Google are threatening to quit Hong Kong over new anti-doxxing laws.
- A little bit of housekeeping and de-cluttering helped Facebook Marketplace grow to 1 billion users.
- Amazing news for all the small-time Instagrammers out there… the platform is testing giving access to link stickers in Stories to all accounts.
- In an effort to combat targeted abuse by groups, Instagram is testing comment limits on posts.
SNAPCHAT
- Yikes, bad news for Clubhouse. After an initial Clubhouse partnership, the NFL jumped ship and is now working with Twitter Spaces.
- Users reported seeing Fleets from profiles they don’t follow on Twitter, presumably as part of a test on the platform.
- Twitter lost liability protection in India this week after tensions rose over the country’s new IT rules.
AR, VR, & AI
- Facebook’s new augmented reality feature lets you dress up as Harry Potter characters in Portal. HP nerds, UNITE!
- YouTube’s AI-powered algorithm is not great when it comes to recommending new videos for users.
NOTEWORTHY
- Trump has begun a trio of lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google for censorship claims.
- TikTok launched a new Resumes program, that allows users to post a resume pitch video to apply for jobs.
- Pinterest has banned all weight loss ads from its platform.
VIRAL CONTENT
- Hurricane Elsa wreaked some havoc on the 157th Street subway station in Washington Heights last night and I want to BARF looking at that water.
- Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps Spelling Bee, correctly spelling the word “murraya.”
Have an awesome weekend!