Netflix Wants You to Understand Why Black Lives Matter

Netflix has launched a collection of films, TV shows, and documentaries which it hopes will help people understand the Black Lives Matter movement. The collection includes dozens of titles dealing with “racial injustice and the Black experience in America”. What Is the Black Lives Matter Movement? Black Lives Matter is a human rights movement which
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Facebook Wants You to Get the Facts on Coronavirus

Facebook has promised to do more to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19. Because, despite its previous efforts, people are still sharing absolute nonsense about the cause of, and possible cures for, COVID-19 on the social network. Facebook Hopes to Dispel COVID-19 Myths The social network announced its new efforts in a post on
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Amazon Wants You to Help Make Alexa Smarter

While Alexa can answer a lot of different questions, there are still gaps in her knowledge. Amazon would like Alexa to know the answer to every single question. And the company is asking for your help in making that happen using Alexa Answers. Right now, it’s possible to argue that Alexa is stupid. Certainly as
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Spotify Wants to Help Podcasters Get More Listeners

Spotify has launched Spotify for Podcasters, a dedicated platform just for podcasters. With podcasting growing as a medium, streaming media companies are desperate to become the home of podcasts. Hence Spotify reaching out to podcasters in this way. How to Use Spotify for Podcasters As explained on the Spotify Newsroom, Spotify for Podcasters is a
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Rotten Tomatoes Wants You to Stop Review Bombing Movies

Rotten Tomatoes is making changes to prevent people from review bombing movies. Review bombing is the best term for it, but, thanks to Rotten Tomatoes’ “Want to See” feature, this is actually affecting movies that haven’t even been released yet. What Is Review Bombing? Review bombing describes a coordinated effort to lower a review score.
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Twitter Still Wants to Let You Edit Your Tweets

Ever since Twitter launched way back in 2006, users have been asking for the ability to edit their tweets. And yet here we are, over a decade later, and nothing. We’re still stuck with the binary choice of leaving a tweet as it is, or deleting it in its entirety. If you’re starting to doubt
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