Bloomberg’s Shira Ovide believes that Snapchat’s loosening content and ad standards reflect a more mainstream business approach. “Snapchat is borrowing liberally from the internet conventions it has scorned,” she writes. For example, “Snapchat is -- irony alert -- copying Facebook by refashioning its advertising business for companies that want quick payoffs from their ads.”

Following the lead of YouTube, Facebook, and other tech titans, Vimeo has banned Alex Jones' disinformation factory InfoWars. The video content violates Vimeo's terms of service, which prohibits “discriminatory and hateful content,” a company spokesperson tells Business Insider.

On Android devices and iPhones, multiple Google services store the location data of users who have requested that such data not be tracked. That's according to an investigation by the Associated Press, which concludes: “Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.”

Campbell Brown, Facebook's global head of news partnerships, reportedly told executives at The Australian that CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about publishers. According to the Australian newspaper, Brown also said: “We are not interested in talking to [publishers] about [their] traffic and referrals anymore.” Yet “Brown denied making the comments to The Australian,” Nieman Lab writes.

In an effort to justify its support of Alex Jones, Twitter executives appear to be bending the facts. Content that got Jones banned from YouTube and Facebook never appeared on Twitter, Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP for trust and safety, is claiming. But CNN suggests otherwise. “A CNN review of Jones’ accounts show that all of the videos that initially led the other tech companies to take action against Jones were in fact posted to Twitter by Jones or InfoWars,” it writes.

Facebook continues to explain its content-policing policies, ZDNet writes. “The social network on Thursday laid out its broad-based framework for when it does and doesn't censor content,” it notes. The framework was released just days after Facebook banned Alex Jones’ media network from its platform, and the same day it confirmed plans to ban websites that share blueprints for 3D-printed guns.

Facebook is shuttering Friend List Feeds, which let users scroll through posts from tailored friend lists. As the company notes, however, users will still be able to create, edit and share to friend lists, TechCrunch reports. “What’s winding down are the Friend List Feeds, which is a way to read these specific people’s updates in their own separate News Feed within the Facebook app.”

A month after Doug Field left Tesla, Apple is putting the prized engineer back on its payroll. “Field will be working with Apple executive Bob Mansfield, who has been heading up Apple’s self-driving car program, Project Titan,” Reuters writes. “Field and Mansfield previously worked together on engineering Apple’s line of Mac computers.”

Some researchers are letting folks collect social media profiles using face recognition, Gizmodo reports. “While that might sound like a terrible idea, the tool’s creators say it will help security professionals by giving them the same tools as the bad guys,” it writes. “The tool, Social Mapper, is open-source and can gather someone’s information from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, [and] Google+,” among other platforms.

Writing in The New York Times, Kara Swisher suggests that Twitter needs to support its content policing policies with some clearly defined values. “While principles and rules will help in an open platform, it is values that [Twitter CEO Jack] Dorsey should really be talking about,” she writes. “By values, I mean a code that requires making hard choices.”