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Should Facebook and Twitter do more to halt online opioid sales?

Opioid epidemic While the platforms are reluctant to police content the ads are “insidious threats.” says the FDA commissioner. (Image: Shutterstock). The top U.S. drug regulator wants social-media sites including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to do more to stop illegal online sales of opioids that are … Read More

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Nintendo Fan Account Flagged On Twitter For Image Of Man Putting On Princess Peach Mask

The excellent Supper Mario Broth—a blog dedicated to weird and fun tidbits of Nintendo history—has had its Twitter account flagged as “sensitive” after it … Yet Twitter's algorithms, designed to catch offensive imagery without the need for human intervention, have decided that it's something naughty. Read More

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Video Should advisors use Twitter? Lightning Round with TD Ameritrade’s Sankaran

Clients are becoming much more sophisticated, warns TD Ameritrade's chief information officer, Vijay Sankaran. Advisors who don't embrace technology to help offer new and better services risk falling behind, he adds. In this rapid-fire round of questions and answers with Financial Planning, Sankaran … Read More

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It May Be Time to Go Long in Twitter Inc Stock

Will shares of Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) get hit as hard as Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) thanks to the latter's recent user data flare-up? Would it be surprising to learn that Twitter stock has not only been hit hard as well, but has actually fallen more than FB stock? Yep, that's right. …

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Facebook and Twitter Pushed to Do More to Halt Online Opioid Sales

Facebook restricts ads that promote the sale of prescription drugs and ads for pharmacies are only allowed with written permission, according to the company's advertising policies. Twitter restricts the promotion of pharmaceutical products. Gottlieb's planned remarks also call out Alphabet Inc.'s Google, … Read More

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Twitter Exposes Villanova Star Donte DiVincenzo’s Old Tweets Saying N*gga

Most Blacks folks would probably tell you they expect White people to say the N-word when they're amongst themselves or feel no Black person is watching. That may have been the case with Villanova guard Donte DiVincenzo, who deleted his Twitter account after old tweets from 2011 surfaced of the … …

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Twitter will stream weekly MLB games this season

In addition to the Twitter deal, YouTube TV is a presenting sponsor of the World Series, and Facebook recently scored the exclusive rights to air 25 games this year. Unlike Facebook, Twitter broadcasts aren't exclusive: Each stream is a simulcast with a team's local TV broadcast. Still, Twitter weill be …

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Twitter Gets Into the MLB Livestreaming Ballgame for 2018

Major League Baseball's package of 25 weekday-afternoon games available exclusively via Facebook Watch starts Wednesday afternoon (weather permitting, as always) with the Philadelphia Phillies visiting the New York Mets (1:10 p.m. ET), and Twitter gets its turn to toe the MLB rubber Thursday. Read More

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Twitter, Facebook, Slack: Using Every Tool to Hear What Readers Think

We need that variety because readers are talking about our coverage on so many different platforms — our own site, Twitter, Facebook and more. Plus, there are readers contacting us directly by email and phone. We even received a letter in the mail — which I promptly Instagrammed. Twitter can …

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Hold up! Y’all just called the Twitter army to deal with The Queen’s Tebogo?

Like a bad break-up text you don't want to believe, Twitter just went and deleted The Queen's Tebogo after he suggested that his fiancée Kea had no brains. Tebogo, played by Fezile Makhanya, is already number one on Twitter's hit list but they went into full military mode and called …