TikTok’s new privacy policy better protects its youngest users
This week in Hard Refresh:Social we review: Twitter bans, YouTube bans, impeachment dresses, & more!
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2 min readJan 15, 2021
- In attempts to better explain how they use your data, Facebook has revamped its Access Your Information tool. How nice of them.
- Facebook is telling employees not to wear company merch in public. That’s probably a good call.
- Sheryl Sandberg is deflecting on how big of a role Facebook played in the insurrection on the Capitol last week, but people aren’t buying it.
- Instagram is testing an option to unhide the total like count on posts. Am I the only one who’s total like count never went away?
SNAPCHAT
- Snapchat has joined the growing list of social media platforms that have decided to permanently ban Trump.
- Snapchat wants to help bring people together in person, as they work on a new Events feature.
- A new feature to Snapchat’s Spotlight feed comes in a public view count.
- In the wake of the attacks on the Capitol last week, Twitter has suspended over 70,000 accounts.
- Trump was still able to call out the “assault on free speech” in a video despite being banned from Twitter last week.
AR, VR, & AI
- Facebook will continue to be a leader in virtual reality, and to do so they might have to abandon their “one identity” rule.
NOTEWORTHY
- The pressure was put on YouTube to remove Trump from its platform, and they complied, sorta, putting a temporary freeze on his channel.
- TikTok’s new privacy policy better protects its youngest users.
- This piece on how social networks should redesign to model themselves after public spaces to better serve their audiences was very interesting!
VIRAL CONTENT
- The people are LOLing that Nancy Pelosi appears to have an official impeachment dress.
- If you need a break from the chaos of the world, here’s some true Gen-Z teen drama for ya. Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett, two people I had never heard of before this week, are in a love triangle, made even more dramatic by the release of Olivia’s single “drivers license.”
- And if you want to be totally freaked out, scandal has surrounded Armie Hammer this week after leaked messages suggest he might be a cannibal???
Have a great weekend!
