August 21, 2023

TechCrunch: Pinterest rolls out new teen safety features, including wiping followers from users 15 and under

TechCrunch: Pinterest rolls out new teen safety features, including wiping followers from users 15 and under . “Pinterest today introduced a series of new safety features aimed at better protecting teens using its service. The features — which include things like private profiles, more control over followers, and message safety controls — are similar to those introduced on other popular social media platforms with teens, like Instagram.”

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March 14, 2023

NBC News: Senators seek answers from Pinterest following NBC News investigation

NBC News: Senators seek answers from Pinterest following NBC News investigation. “Days after an NBC News investigation revealed how grown men on Pinterest openly create sex-themed image boards filled with pictures of little girls, the company says it has ‘dramatically’ increased its number of human content moderators. It also unveiled two new features enabling users to report content and accounts for a range of violations.”

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March 9, 2023

NBC News: Men on Pinterest are creating sex-themed image boards of little girls. The platform makes it easy.

NBC News: Men on Pinterest are creating sex-themed image boards of little girls. The platform makes it easy. . “Aggregating individually innocuous images of minors into potentially sexually suggestive collections is a practice experts describe as awful, but in many cases, lawful, meaning platforms have no legal obligation to take action. Yet Pinterest isn’t just allowing this to happen on its website — its recommendation engine is making it easy.”

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February 18, 2023

Michigan Daily: A love letter to Pinterest

Michigan Daily: A love letter to Pinterest. “I still remember the day that you and I first met. I couldn’t have been more than 12 years old. My aunt had told me all about you — ‘It’s like an online bulletin board,’ she described — and showed me around her own profile. I had never seen so many pictures, appropriately dubbed ‘pins,’ in one place before. I could save these pins to a board, or multiple boards, and organize them in whatever way I liked. I knew that I had just discovered something magical.”

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September 2, 2022

Star of Netflix’s ‘How to Build a Sex Room’ says Pinterest removed her board about the series: ‘HTBASR is a sex-positive show’ (Yahoo Life)

Yahoo Life: Star of Netflix’s ‘How to Build a Sex Room’ says Pinterest removed her board about the series: ‘HTBASR is a sex-positive show’. “Melanie Rose is a luxury interior designer … who happens to have a passion for getting people in the mood. Rose hosts Netflix’s How to Build a Sex Room, a series in which she meets with people to discuss their intimacy issues, then gives a room in their home a sexy makeover…. But not everyone finds Rose’s work so straightforward. This week, Rose took to Instagram to share that a Pinterest board she’d been keeping with products, decorating ideas and other highlights from the show was removed by the platform.”

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August 25, 2022

TechCrunch: Shuffles, Pinterest’s invite-only collage-making app, is blowing up on TikTok — here’s how to get in

TechCrunch: Shuffles, Pinterest’s invite-only collage-making app, is blowing up on TikTok — here’s how to get in . “Collage-style video ‘mood boards’ are going viral on TikTok — and so is the app making them possible. Pinterest’s recently soft-launched collage-maker Shuffles has been climbing up the App Store’s Top Charts thanks to demand from Gen Z users who are leveraging the new creative expression tool to make, publish and share visual content. These ‘aesthetic’ collages are then set to music and posted to TikTok or shared privately with friends or with the broader Shuffles community.”

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June 29, 2022

B&T: Pinterest Appoints Former Google Executive Bill Ready As CEO

B&T: Pinterest Appoints Former Google Executive Bill Ready As CEO. “Image sharing service Pinterest have announced that Bill Ready will be taking over the role of chief executive officer, after Ben Silbermann announced his resignation following 12 years of tenure. Silbermann will remain with Pinterest, however he will be moving on to the position of executive chairman, with his responsibilities significantly reduced.”

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June 28, 2022

Engadget: Russia fines Airbnb, Twitch and Pinterest for not storing data locally

Engadget: Russia fines Airbnb, Twitch and Pinterest for not storing data locally. “Russia has fined Airbnb, Twitch and Pinterest for violating the country’s personal data legislation, Reuters reports. On Tuesday, a court in Moscow ordered all three companies to pay fines of 2 million roubles (approximately $37,700) for not storing the data of Russian citizens within the country.”

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June 25, 2022

Bloomberg: Pinterest must face suit by Oakland woman who says she helped create it

Bloomberg: Pinterest must face suit by Oakland woman who says she helped create it. “Pinterest Inc. must face a lawsuit from a digital marketing strategist who says she helped conceive the social media platform, but not one of its founders, a California judge ruled. Late on Thursday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Seabolt denied the company’s motion to dismiss the suit, but he eliminated co-founder Paul Sciarra as a defendant because he left Pinterest a decade ago.”

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February 3, 2022

CNET: Pinterest’s new AR feature will let you ‘try on’ furniture, home decor

CNET: Pinterest’s new AR feature will let you ‘try on’ furniture, home decor. “Retailers and tech companies are boosting their use of augmented reality to help customers decide what products to buy. AR lets people superimpose a virtual image onto a view of the real world through their phone’s camera, making it easier to visualize what an item will look like in a particular space. On Monday, digital pinboard company Pinterest said it’s releasing a new feature called Try On for Home Decor.”

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