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Zoom to provide automatic closed captioning for all free accounts

Friday, February 26 by ABC News

By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Zoom said it will start providing live transcription services for free accounts in a bid to boost accessibility.Jen Hill, the company's product marketing manager, made the announcement in a blog post on Wednesday,... Read More.

Twitter to expand labels on government accounts, state-affiliated media in transparency bid

Friday, February 12 by ABC News

By CONOR FINNEGAN and CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The company confirms it is exploring subscriptions and other features to generate revenue.Twitter is expanding its use of labels to identify official government accounts and state-affiliated media in a... Read More.

Pamela Anderson reportedly married on Christmas Eve; shuts down social media accounts: “THEY want…control over your brain”

Thursday, January 28 by ABC News

(CANADA) -- Pamela Anderson got married in a private ceremony in her native Canada on Christmas Eve, and as part of her new life, she's shutting down her social media accounts. Anderson's fifth marriage was to her bodyguard boyfriend Dan Hayhurst, on the picturesque property she bought from her... Read More.

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris send 1st tweets from official White House accounts

Wednesday, January 20 by ABC News

By ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- After taking their respective oaths of office Wednesday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took part in a second transfer of power by taking the reigns of the official @POTUS and @VP... Read More.

DHS official warns taking down social media accounts could hurt intel gathering

Thursday, January 14 by ABC News

By LUKE BARR and ALEXANDER MALLIN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- As social media companies mount an unprecedented crackdown in the wake of last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol -- deleting the accounts and posts of users they say are pushing... Read More.

Social media companies restricting Trump accounts cite risk for violence

Monday, January 11 by ABC News

By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- After President Donald Trump's online and rally rhetoric was linked to violence as a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building last week, many social media giants took the unprecedented step... Read More.

Zoom to remove time limits on free accounts over holidays

Friday, December 18 by ABC News

By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- As health officials urge Americans not to travel home for the holidays, Zoom said it was removing the time limit for meetings on free accounts during certain holidays this year."COVID-19 has changed how... Read More.

North Korean officials appear to have launched Twitter accounts

Friday, November 13 by ABC News

By AARON KWON, ABC News(SEOUL, South Korea) -- Two relatively new Twitter accounts that appear to belong to North Korean officials began getting a lot of attention on Friday.Tweets from the accounts, neither of which have been verified... Read More.

Facebook to remove all accounts ‘representing’ QAnon

Wednesday, October 7 by ABC News

By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Facebook announced Tuesday it was removing any accounts "representing" QAnon across all of its platforms in a major, more-proactive step to stop the spread of the baseless conspiracy theory online."Starting today,... Read More.

Individuals linked to 2016 Russian misinformation effort back at it again with more fake accounts, Facebook says

Tuesday, September 1 by ABC News

By OLIVIA RUBIN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Some individuals connected to the online Russian troll group that attempted to interfere in the 2016 president election on social media are at it again, Facebook announced in a report on Tuesday.The... Read More.

Twitter says direct messages of 36 accounts were compromised in massive hack

Thursday, July 23 by ABC News

By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Twitter revealed new details on the massive cyberattack the platform suffered last week, saying hackers were able to access the direct message inboxes of dozens of the compromised accounts."We believe that... Read More.

Facebook removes 220 ‘boogaloo’-related accounts from its platform

Tuesday, June 30 by ABC News

BY LUKE BARR and CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC NEWS(NEW YORK) -- Facebook announced the removal of 220 accounts, 28 pages and 106 groups that are associated with the little-known but emerging movement called "boogaloo."The company also said they removed... Read More.