Simon Gutierrez @guttirez20

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/8qKu50g0vKd

Twitter ended the year on a fascinating run -  It’s been pretty easy to point at Twitter and, with each quarterly moment when it discloses its financial guts, let out a long exasperated sigh. But then something interesting happened in the back half of... ow.ly/lFUR50fYZUf

Th U.S. needs to create civic social networks -  I have no doubt that the same great minds who are actively driving new platforms for commerce and engagement can formulate a new product (or adapt an existing one) that allows elected officials to engag... ow.ly/NiI650fXncQ

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/vE1f50fVoML

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/lfrB50fUY0R

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/vM8t50fTCGc

The identity politics of emoji -  Welcome back to CTRL+T, TechCrunch’s latest weekly podcast in which Megan Rose Dickey and I pick the stories we thought were interesting enough to talk to you about. This week we wondered if cell phones can adversely ... ow.ly/bL0Z50fSdW1

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/zkyC50fPAsm

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/fXQM50fPa59

Snap and Twitter now have roughly the same market cap -  While we won’t call this a huge watershed moment per se, something nominally interesting in the world of Weird Social Media Things happened this morning: Snap and Twitter are now worth the same ... ow.ly/yXQT50fOZig

YouTube: More AI can fix AI-generated “bubbles of hate” -  Facebook, YouTube and Twitter faced another online hate crime grilling today by UK parliamentarians visibly frustrated at their continued failures to apply their own community guidelines and t... ow.ly/FaHC50fNPVt

Twitter launches a new enterprise API to power customer service and chatbots -  Twitter’s big news this week is its announcement that it’s now enforcing its new policies around hateful content and abuse, but today the company is rolling out something ... ow.ly/4QQu50fNHeJ

Twitter finally boots hate group that Trump retweeted off its platform -  Yesterday Twitter said it would begin enforcing new hate speech rules to shutter accounts that promote violence against citizens to further their causes. Read More ow.ly/A3Fe50fNkQq

Crunch Report | YouTube Red pulls plug on ‘Super Size Me 2’ - Today’s Stories  YouTube Red cancels release of Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super Size Me 2’ following filmmaker’s sexual abuse confessions Twitter today starts enforcing new rules around violence a... ow.ly/VXBY50fN6oR

Twitter is soaring today as its stock hits a high for the year -  Twitter is finally having a good day on Wall Street as it heads into the final weeks of the year, and this time around it may be a result of a little bit of optimism from investors. The... ow.ly/gF0d50fMBBm

Study: Russia-linked fake Twitter accounts sought to spread terrorist-related social division in the UK -  A study by UK academics looking at how fake social media accounts were used to spread socially divisive messages in the wake of a spate of domes... ow.ly/7G1W50fMmh9

Twitter today starts enforcing new rules around violence and hate -  Twitter today says it will begin to enforce new rules related to how it handles hateful conduct and abusive behavior taking place on its platform. The changes are a part of the compa... ow.ly/vMuZ50fMikw

The technology industry needs to think more seriously about device addiction -  As we grow as a culture, especially for newer generations, we need to start asking important questions: ‘how as a species do we begin the education process of device addic... ow.ly/S6Vz50fL251

Twitter says Russians spent ~$1k on six Brexit-related ads -  Twitter has disclosed that Russian-backed accounts spent $1,031.99 to buy six Brexit-related ads on its platform during last year’s European Union referendum vote. Read More ow.ly/tc8N50fHnfe

Twitter officially launches ‘threads,’ a new feature for easily posting tweetstorms -  Twitter today is announcing the launch of a new feature that will allow people to more easily post tweetstorms – that is, those series of connected tweets that have... ow.ly/n7w250fG30Y