Facebook is releasing a new tool that will allow its users to transfer photos directly to Google Photos. The tool is being released initially in Ireland, and will be available worldwide in the first half of 2020. “For almost a decade, we’ve enabled people to download their information from Facebook,” explains Steve Satterfield, director of privacy and public policy at Facebook. “The photo transfer tool we’re starting to roll out is based on code developed through our participation in the open-source Data Transfer Project.”

Did TikTok prevent differently abled users’ videos from showing up in feeds?

Social video network TikTok apparently limited the reach of people with disabilities, including facial disfigurement and Down syndrome. According to Netzpolitik.org, which spoke with a source inside the company, the policy was supposed to protect users with a high risk of bullying. In practice, however, it apparently amounted to discrimination – and the problem was compounded by moderators who needed to make snap decisions about users’ physical and mental traits.