Facebook has a knack for driving the privacy conscious crazy. Now, in addition to its cataloguing of everyone’s personal information and social ties, the network is taking to the skies with a gigantic drone. “Facebook plans to test a version of its solar-powered drone this summer, a step in its efforts to beam Internet access to billions of people without it today,” The Wall Street Journal reports. 

Social ad company Nanigans just raised $24 million in a Series B round led by Chinese software company Cheetah Mobile. “A good portion of the money, is earmarked to bring the Nanigans vision of 100% software-as-a-service to fruition,” AdExchanger reports. “The social and mobile ad company, which claims to handle around $500 million in annual ad spend through its automated advertising software, has been transforming itself into a dedicated SaaS player.” 

Highlighting the risks of modern matchmaking, some programmer is hacking Tinder so that heterosexual male users will pursue other heterosexual males. The “program identifies two men who ‘like’ one of [the programmer’s] bait profiles … and matched them to each other,” The Verge reports. It’s essentially a “catfish machine that fools men into thinking they’re talking to women -- when in fact they’re talking with each other.” 

Social networks are never immune from bad actors, but Fusion calls outs neighborhood-based Nextdoor.com for nurturing peoples’ worst instincts. “Rather than bridging gaps between neighbors, Nextdoor can become a forum for paranoid racialism -- the equivalent of the nosy Neighborhood Watch appointee in a gated community,” it writes. 

Facebook is reportedly in talks with Vice, Vox Media, and several other media firms about co-producing short original videos. “Known within Facebook as ‘Anthology,’ the latest video push is aimed at injecting higher-quality videos into users’ News Feeds so Facebook can make more money from video ads,” The Information reports. “Facebook and its content partners are set to try to convince advertisers to sponsor the videos.” 

Reddit this week is officially launching its embeddable comments feature. “Like Twitter’s embedded tweets feature, embeddable comments makes it easy for other sites to feature comments from Reddit users,” TechCrunch reports. “Instead of cutting-and-pasting a comment or linking back to it, writers just have to click on its permalink and select “embed” for its code.” 

Twitter is the latest tech giant to face a discrimination suit for its hiring and promoting practices. “A former Twitter Inc female software engineer has filed a proposed class action claiming the company's ‘black box’ promotion process unlawfully favors men,” Reuters reports. The suit was filed in California state court in San Francisco, where Twitter has its headquarters. 

Following the lead of Line and other enterprising messaging services, Facebook is going to turn Messenger into a developer platform. Next week, “Facebook will announce new ways for third parties to offer experiences through its Messenger app,” TechCrunch reports, citing sources. “At first, Facebook will focus on how third parties can build ways for content and information to flow through Messenger … Facebook may then mull bringing more utilities to Messenger.” 

Facebook is facing a sex discrimination, harassment and racial discrimination suit from a former employee. According to a lawsuit filed with the San Mateo County Superior Court on Monday, “Chia Hong, who worked at Facebook from June 2010 to October 2013, was treated differently during her time at the company because of her race and gender,” Re/Code reports. 

Dataminr, a start-up that parses real-time information posted on social media sites like Twitter to extract key developments for public safety, bankers and news organizations, has raised another $130 million in funding. The monies will be used to expand into new enterprise verticals, like risk management, and take the U.S.-based service to more geographies.