Laura Cappelle / New York Times:
French director Marion Siéfert blames Meta’s policies for banning livestreams of her “Instagram play” about teenage sexuality, even though it contains no nudity — Marion Siéfert’s “_jeanne_dark_,” about a shy teenager beginning to express her sexuality …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Tumblr updates its community guidelines to allow nudity, mature subject matter, and sexual themes, but retains its limits for sexually explicit acts — Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature to make it easier for creators to select and manage questions from viewers in the chat during livestreams — YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature that is designed to make it easier for creators to interact with viewers during livestreams.
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Twitter has disabled badge access and shut down its offices until November 21, after a large number of employees chose to resign on Thursday — The temporary closure of the company’s offices comes as the billionaire is reportedly “terrified employees are going to sabotage the company.”
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A Delaware jury says Shopify owes $40M to patent holder Express Mobile for infringing three patents related to software for providing content to mobile devices — E-commerce platform Shopify Inc owes patent holder Express Mobile Inc $40 million for infringing three patents related …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Google acquired Alter, an AI avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity; source: the deal closed two months ago for ~$100M — Google has acquired Alter, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity …
TechCrunch:
BrandTotal and Unimania agreed to a permanent injunction banning them from using and scraping Facebook and Instagram, and will pay a “significant financial sum” — Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations …
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