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A YouTube extension is bringing back the dislike count, an anti-social media deplatorming bill has been squashed by a Texas Judge, and social media companies are taking action against disinformation campaigns.
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Calls denouncing YouTube’s removal of the dislike count have been so strong that one developer has created an extension to bring them back. The extension, aptly named Return YouTube Dislike, has seen more than 50,000 users in the Chrome Webstore and Firefox Add-ons. Ironically, the extension uses YouTube’s own API to work. The caveat is that it only works for videos uploaded before YouTube removed the metric. Since YouTube plans to retire the API on December 13, the developer plans on using a combination of archived dislikes and estimates to aggregate the count in the future.
A Texas judge has blocked a bill…
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