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Moms in Tech Facebook group splintering over allegations of racism

The Verge

With more than 15,000 members, a community wrestles with calls for intersectionality A Facebook group for mothers in the tech industry is disintegrating after members say they were blocked or silenced for posting about anti-racism and white fragility. The group, Moms in Tech, was started in 2017 by Linda Xiong, a product manager at Facebook.

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Z2 vets raise $5M to grow Seattle studio Starform and launch social games

GeekWire

“We’re big believers in social play,” Fasulo, Starform’s CEO, said in an interview with GeekWire. The only guidelines in place are whether or not the game’s life cycle could theoretically last five to ten years, and if it could appeal to a global market. It plans to hire more for its second internal team.

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Peloton is blocking the #StopTheSteal hashtag from being created or used

The Verge

The company is now preventing users from creating a #StopTheSteal tag from within the app, saying the tag does not “meet our guidelines” when a user goes to create it. Peloton’s community guidelines specifically ban “hate, offensive, and obscene speech” as well as “bullying, harassment, and other offensive behavior.”

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TikTok owner ByteDance grabs another 66K square-feet of office space in Seattle area

GeekWire

A third quarter report from real estate firm Broderick Group reveals that TikTok owner ByteDance recently subleased another 66,000 square-feet of office space from enterprise tech giant SAP Concur at the Key Center building in downtown Bellevue, Wash., (ByteDance Photo) ByteDance is expanding in the Seattle area. just east of Seattle.

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Need some privacy? Explore Instagram Flipside feature

Dataconomy

While still in the testing phase, the Flipside feature could revolutionize the conventional norms of private sharing, presenting a seamless alternative to the trend of “finstas” and catering to users seeking a more intimate and controlled social media experience.

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Facebook is starting to share more about what it demotes in News Feed

The Verge

Now the social network is attempting to shine more light on the content it surpresses but doesn't remove entirely. On Thursday, Facebook published its “Content Distribution Guidelines” detailing the roughly three-dozen types of posts it demotes for various reasons in the News Feed, like clickbait and posts by repeat policy offenders.

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Making social media happen in government: case study of NSW Department of Education

Trends in the Living Networks

I’m at the launch meeting of the social media community of practice set up by Institute of Public Administration NSW (IPAA). At the conference I wrote about the case study of Queensland Police , which is a great example of government bodies creating value through social media. Here are a few live notes from the event. .