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Fast Company Mark Sullivan	This New Site May Finally Make The Smartphone A Must-Have Tool For Voting Change Politics helps voters "engage directly with the candidates in the lead-up to the election, and shift influence in elections from parties and paid ads, to individuals' trusted personal networks," according to the group's blog.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Sued For Enabling "Explosive Growth Of ISIS" The suit argues that ISIS has used Twitter to attract new recruits and to disseminate propaganda, and that the site has "knowingly or with willful blindness" aided terrorists as a result.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	SoundCloud Wants To Be The Next Spotify. Will You Pay? For years, SoundCloud's quest to become a freemium music subscription service has been an open secret in the online music world.
Fast Company February 2016 Austin Carr	What's Really Going On Inside Tinder? The deliciously addictive Tinder is as much cultural phenomenon as dating app -- a strikingly simple tool that lets you flick through photos of nearby users.
Fast Company February 2016 Nicole LaPorte	How Ipsy Founder Michelle Phan Is Using Influencers To Reinvent The Cosmetics Industry Since 2007, when she started making videos of herself applying makeup in her bedroom and uploading them to YouTube, she has amassed a following of more than 8 million subscribers.
Fast Company P. Claire Dodson	The White House Is Now On Snapchat POTUS has seemingly completed the social media trifecta -- with the debut of the White House's new Snapchat account.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Tinder Is Setting Up Shop In India Tinder, the wildly popular dating app, is deepening its global presence with its first international office.
Fast Company Michael Grothaus	White House Officials To Meet With Tech Execs To Discuss Countering Terrorism Online They will discuss the ongoing concern of how terrorists have become adept at using social media to recruit members and converts online.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Biz Stone Is Bringing Jelly Back Jelly was meant to act as a personalized search engine. When a user asks a question, the app combs through crowdsourced answers to offer up the best response from the person it deems most knowledgeable.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Facebook Messenger Has More Than 800 Million Monthly Users In 2015, Facebook spruced up Messenger with a slew of new features, including peer-to-peer payments and a snazzy digital assistant called M.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Netflix's Reach Just Exploded Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that the service is now available in 130 new countries, including populous markets like Russia, India, and South Korea.
Fast Company Steven Melendez	Report: Snapchat Is Building Its Own Ad Platform Snapchat is working on an application-programmer interface that would let brands buy more targeted and sophisticated ads on the popular mobile messaging platform
Fast Company Christina Farr	Report: Facebook Tested User Loyalty By Sabotaging Its Android App Facebook sometimes made its Android app crash for several hours over the course of several years. Facebook would then track these users to see if they kept returning to the app or gave up.
Fast Company Christina Farr	Twitter Hires A New Diversity Chief From Apple Twitter has hired Apple's Jeffery Siminoff, a former vice president of diversity and inclusion, in a bid to meet its goals for a more diverse workforce.
Fast Company Peter Wade	Basta! Hillary Clinton Is #NotMyAbuela, Twitter Says The Clinton post sparked a backlash on Twitter, as ham-handed political maneuvers are wont to do, and Hispanic users showed their umbrage with the hashtag #NotMyAbuela.
Fast Company Daniel Taroy	Here Are The Bill Nye Reaction GIFs You Didn't Know You Needed To drum up awareness for The Planetary Society, the Science Guy has released a YouTube clip of himself reacting to different stimuli, providing Internet-savvy science junkies with ample material to create their own reaction GIFs.
Fast Company Steven Melendez	T-Mobile "Binge On" Video Streaming Program Accused Of Throttling Traffic To YouTube YouTube says that T-Mobile is throttling traffic to YouTube as part of the mobile provider's new "Binge On" video streaming program -- even though YouTube isn't part of the program
Fast Company Steven Melendez	Not So Kawaii! Researcher Reports More Than 3M Hello Kitty Fans Exposed In Data Breach Data on more than 3 million users of HelloKitty.com and other sites related to the popular character was exposed to the Internet through an insecure database, security researcher Chris Vickery reported.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	Tesla Cars Will Get Free Spotify Premium -- But Not In The U.S. Buyers of Tesla's Model S cars in Europe, Australia, and Hong Kong will have voice-controlled access to the streaming service. Spotify.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Instragram Security Flaws Lead To War Of Words Between Facebook and Hacker A security researcher accused Facebook of hinting at legal and criminal action after he posted on a blog about security vulnerabilities on the system.
Fast Company Daniel Taroy	Make Socks To Pause Netflix When You Fall Asleep, Because That's The World We Live In Why anyone would go out of their way to actually make these remains a mystery, but Netflix has included detailed step-by-step instructions on its site, as well as sock designs for its most popular shows
Fast Company Christina Farr	FDA Unveils New Site To Tailor Medical Treatment To An Individual's DNA The initiative is part of the Obama Administration's $215 million "Personalized Medicine" effort, which aims to banish the "one-sized-fits-all" approach to medicine.
Fast Company Christina Farr	How Effective Is It To Vet The Social Media Activity Of Visa Applicants? Technology company employees are skeptical that government pilot programs to scrutinize visa applicants' social media activity will be effective at rooting out potential terrorists or terrorist sympathizers.
Information Today December 15, 2015	Facebook at Work Nears Official Launch According to Canada's National Post, Facebook is planning to introduce Facebook at Work, a professional version of its social network that is focused on workplace collaboration.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Google, Facebook, And Twitter Crack Down On Hate Speech In Germany As per a new deal with the German government, hate speech posted on Facebook, Twitter, and Google will be flagged and removed from the view of German users within 24 hours.
Fast Company Christina Farr	Facebook Moves In On Yelp's Turf With Discovery Site For Local Services Facebook is quietly testing a new site to help you find highly rated businesses in your area.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	European Teens Under 16 Could Be Barred From Snapchat And Instagram When the European Parliament rules on a new regulation Tuesday, all teens under the age of 16 could be booted off their preferred social media platforms.
Fast Company Sarah Kessler	When Does Hate Speech Cross The Line On Social Media? Facebook, Twitter and other private companies aren't subject to laws that protect people from government interference in free speech, but they've borrowed some of the same theoretical frameworks.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks More than 20 users received a notice saying their Twitter accounts were among "a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors."
Fast Company P. Claire Dodson	BuzzFeed Features All-Muslim Content On Its Snapchat Discover Channel BuzzFeed's decision to feature all-Muslim content on one of its biggest platforms is a weighty acknowledgment and validation of the media company's Muslim audience
Fast Company Sarah Kessler	Facebook, Twitter Would Be Forced To Report Terrorist Activity Under Proposed Bill Efforts in Washington have put a spotlight on the debate around the role of technology companies in aiding law enforcement's investigation of terrorist activity.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Some Twitter Users See Non-Linear Timelines The social network began a limited rollout of non-chronological timelines, which means some users are seeing tweets displayed in an algorithmic, non-linear fashion, somewhat similar to Facebook's News Feed.
Fast Company P. Claire Dodson	Without Taylor Swift And Adele, Spotify's 2015 Top Charts Are Mostly Male Part of the beauty in streaming is music discovery, and if platforms are driving away their biggest female acts with low pay, that is going to have a trickle-down effect.
Fast Company Daniel Taroy	Twitter's Year In Review Puts Jobs (And Boy Bands) At The Top Of Its Lists Twitter revisits the most significant tweets, hashtags, and new users of the last 12 months, along with the moments that "had the biggest impact across the world."
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