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Facebook, not Twitter, will live stream this year’s Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show -  Facebook has scored the exclusive rights to live stream this year’s Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show – a deal that last year went to Twitter. On Tuesday, the H... ow.ly/rPe050g0C2V


UK eyeing ‘extremism’ tax on social media giants -  The UK government has kicked off the new year with another warning shot across the bows of social media giants. Read More ow.ly/NiAR50g0vN2


Telegram and Instagram being restricted in Iran -  Messaging app Telegram and Facebook-owned social sharing platform Instagram appear to be being blocked in Iran. Read More ow.ly/32zd50g0iFx


What were your best nine Instagram photos from 2017? -  You might have noticed a new end-of-year trend on Instagram the past few days. If so, you can thank 2017bestnine.com, a website that lets you automatically collect and collage your most-li... ow.ly/Q66d50fZcaB


Facebook has a 100-person engineering team that helps advertisers build tools and infrastructure -  Stories about Facebook’s advertising business tend to focus on the big numbers — its billions of users, millions of advertisers or its enormous lead ov... ow.ly/fTkz50fXGZU


OKCupid’s rating sinks as users rebel over new ‘real name’ policy -  OKCupid’s users are angry – very, very angry. Just ahead of the new year, the company made a radical change to its policies, and now requires people to use real names instead of an O... ow.ly/koXi50fXEvS


Pinterest adds former CBS Corp. CFO Fred Reynolds to its board -  Pinterest announced today it’s adding former CBS and PepsiCo exec Fred Reynolds to its board of directors. Reynolds’ background includes global financial and strategic planning as well ... ow.ly/hERq50fXwo9


Snapchat adds a 2017 year in review feature for saved memories -  Snapchat users who snap and save can take a stroll down memory lane with the app’s new feature, “A Look Back at 2017.” If you’re the type that would rather ruminate than remain committe... ow.ly/nbkX50fWFxS


Instagram will now add ‘Recommended’ posts to your feed -  Instagram’s feed will now show users recommended posts – a change that earlier this month was spotted while in testing, and has since quietly gone live. The feature, described here in the comp... ow.ly/BY0850fVw0B


President Obama warns against getting ‘cocooned’ in bias via social media -  Former President Barack Obama sat down with the UK’s Prince Harry for an extended and far-ranging interview with the BBC this week, and their conversation touched on social m... ow.ly/VlrC50fVm4c


Facebook’s “comment a memory” meme should replace “HBD!” -  I find it truly sad the way Facebook has led us to reduce wishing friends a happy birthday to a meaningless, generic chore. It’s not Facebook’s fault. It gives us an open-ended comment box. B... ow.ly/RJPE50fVj27


Library of Congress will no longer archive all public tweets, citing longer character limits -  The Library of Congress announced today that it will no longer add every public tweet to its archives, an ambitious project it launched seven years ago. It... ow.ly/hiWX50fUY42


Julian Assange’s Twitter account goes offline, returns -  It’s a Christmas miracle of sorts. Julian Assange’s Twitter account disappeared from the site, returned, and now there’s a bouncing baby Corgi up top. The account appears to have gone offline a... ow.ly/R1we50fTCBb


Check now to see if you liked any Russian troll accounts on Facebook -  This fall saw ever-rising estimates of the number of people reached by Russian-backed troll accounts — just shy of 150 million at last count . Now the social network has at last r... ow.ly/ALsy50fRvvx


CNN is killing its Snapchat news show only four months after its debut -  CNN is giving up on its Snapchat news show, which launch only four months ago. “The Update,” as the program was called, had been designed for Snapchat’s vertical video format, b... ow.ly/23ni50fRi9h


Instagram now lets you share live videos through direct messages -  Instagram has been steadily beefing up its Direct Messaging feature in recent months, as it has begun to toy with the idea of spinning out messaging into its own, separate app. Among ... ow.ly/hU6Q50fQmlh


Talent trickles out of Snapchat as Timehop founder leaves -  Less than a year after joining Snapchat, social media nostalgia app Timehop’s founder Jonathan Wegener is departing the company. He tells TechCrunch he wants to build his own thing again, bu... ow.ly/kA3V50fQcT5


Facebook and Universal Music Group’s new partnership will allow for user-gen videos with licensed music, new social features -  Facebook today announced a first-of-its-kind licensing deal with Universal Music Group that will allow users across its pro... ow.ly/snwh50fQ879


Twitter will tell users if content was blocked to comply with local laws or legal demands -  Twitter will now display messages to inform users if blocked tweets were withheld to comply with local laws or court orders, which it calls Country Withheld C... ow.ly/KyRp50fPB6y


Twitter adds support for app-based two-factor authentication -  Twitter is rolling out an update to its platform security that will allow users to employ third-part authentication apps to receive a two-factor login authentication for their Twitter acc... ow.ly/kiAq50fP9Lt


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