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Summary: A major challenge for global internet companies is figuring how to deal with different rules and regulations within...

Summary: There are unique challenges in handling adult content on a website, whether it’s an outright ban...

Summary: In its 15 years as a micro-blogging service, Twitter has given users more characters per tweet, reaction GIFs...

Summary: In late June 2021, Twitter briefly suspended the account of Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Indian government's Technology...

Wed, Jul 14th 2021 3:48pm — Copia Institute Summary: Since its debut in 2007, Twitter hasnt changed much about its formula, except for expanding its character limit from 140 to 280 in 2007 and adding useful features such as lists, trending topics and polls. Twitter has embraced images and videos, adding it to its original text-only formula, but seemed to have little use for audio. That changed in June 2020 when Twitter announced it would allow users to upload audio-only tweets. Remaining true...

Thu, Jul 1st 2021 3:35pm — Copia Institute Summary: In the spring of 2011, two men were on a first date at the John Snow pub in London. They were apparently thrown out of the pub after another patron at the bar complained that the two men were kissing each other in the corner. The story of being thrown out of the pub for kissing began to go viral on social media, followed by a plan for a protest at the pub in question. In a sign of support for the protest, many people on social media posted i...

Summary: Three professors, Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin, wrote a book about culture on Instagram and how it developed...

Summary: Roblox is an incredibly popular online platform for games, especially among younger users. In 2020, it was reported that...

Summary: Twitter users who made the mistake of tweeting out an innocuous word -- 'Memphis -- found themselves suspended from the...

Fri, May 7th 2021 3:36pm — Copia Institute Summary: An app that allowed users to moderate content residing on their own phones was given the boot by Google after it was determined to be in violation of Play Store rules. The self-explanatory "Remove China Apps" app was developed by Indian engineers residing in Jaipur, India in collaboration with One Touch App Labs. The app was created in response to growing backlash against China during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, after early repo...