Some people are not happy with the latest changes to Twitter’s flagship app. In particular, the social giant’s new @-replies feature is something of “unspeakable badness,” according to Motherboard’s Sarah Jeong. “Does anyone at Twitter even use Twitter?” Jeong asks. Meanwhile, “The new interface removes @-handles from tweets.” As such, “This removes handles from the character length of the tweet, allowing you to add up to 50 handles in a thread.”

To boost its Messenger service, Facebook is reportedly developing some new group bots, which it plans to reveal at its upcoming F8 conference. “These group bots can keep users informed about real-time news such as a sports game’s progress, e-commerce deliveries and more,” TechCrunch writes, citing sources.

Among more than 1,500 technologists and scholars, 81% believe that uncivility between Web users will only worsen over the next decade. That’s according to new report from the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. “Not only that, but some of the spaces that will inevitably crop up to protect people from trolls may contribute to a new kind of ‘Potemkin internet,’ pretty façades that hide the true lack of civility across the web,” The Atlantic reports.

Pinterest announced the general availability of its Promoted App Pin ad format this week. As Marketing Dive reports: “Advertisers can buy the new ad format through the Pinterest Ads Manager or Pinterest Marketing Partners, and marketers can get reports on downstream installs from Pinterest’s mobile measurement partners AppsFlyer, Tune, Adjust, Kochava and Apsalar.”

Within its network, Instagram has started filtering select images that it considers to be “sensitive” content. “Instagram says that these images are ones that other users have reported but don't technically violate the service's guidelines,” Engadget writes. If users choose, however, they should still be able to view such “sensitive” imagery with a single click. 

Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and YouTube are reportedly bidding for the right to stream the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” games, next season. “All four companies also talked to the NFL last year about the same deal, which Twitter won with a $10 million bid for the right to stream 10 games,” Recode reports. “The league is likely to make a decision within the next month.”

Blurring the lines between private and public communications, Facebook Messenger is adding the ability to use reactions during group conversations, and tag people using the ‘@’ symbol. As The Next Web notes: “The reactions are useful for the same reason they are on Facebook proper: They give you more ways to acknowledge you’ve read a post and express your feelings towards it instead of a generic Like.”

Digital advertisers are increasingly steering clear of Breitbart News, and other Web sites that many view as too closely aligned with neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. As Reuters reports: “While the exact number of advertisers that have blacklisted Breitbart is unknown, Sleeping Giants, an anonymous group campaigning on Twitter against companies advertising on the website, puts the number higher than 1,500.”

Following Facebook’s lead, LinkedIn just added a “Trending” topics feed. With it, “Users can find a collection of recent news stories and accompanying user posts that are personalized based on their interests and profession,” Recode reports. “LinkedIn will use a combination of human editors and computer algorithms to detect important storylines, then collect articles and posts related to those storylines and put them into individual feeds.”

Baidu is losing its chief AI scientist, Andrew Ng. “The departure comes at a crucial point for the Beijing-based company as it attempts to revive its fortunes by embracing machine intelligence across all of its business units,” Bloomberg writes. Previously, Ng was “a Stanford University academic who worked on deep learning at Alphabet Inc. before joining Baidu in 2014.”