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Kayvon Beykpour, head of consumer product, on the company’s new product plan Twitter recently announced that it’s going to be building a lot of new things into its product: there’s Twitter Spaces , which is a live audio feature very similar to the red-hot Clubhouse app. There are Twitter Fleets , which look like Snap and Instagram Stories.
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Governing. ? officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election,” which he did by releasing edited audio tapes and other unsupported information that were then pushed in Western media. ? It took a lawsuit from contractors to get Facebook to acknowledge the harms of moderating extremist content. Jessica Guynn / USA Today ).
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