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Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store (en.royanews.tv)
submitted 4 hours ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Google Play has delisted UpScrolled, the "censorship-resistant" social media app founded by Issam Hijazi, following its rapid growth to over 2.5 million users and its brief stint as a top-ranked alternative to TikTok.

While the app remains available for existing users, Google has not provided a specific reason for the removal; UpScrolled's team confirmed they are working with the Play Store for reinstatement while maintaining their commitment to unfiltered content.

This development follows the app's rapid ascent in popularity, particularly amid concerns over content moderation on competing platforms like TikTok.

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[โ€“] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The more I work for tech companies the more I genuinely end up believing that stuff like this being removed is in fact just incompetence at least 50% of the time

[โ€“] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

A lot of companies seem to automatically delist things that get mass reported, which makes them subject to interference by armies of paid or unpaid trolls. Hopefully the issue gets corrected but this seems to happen more and more frequently.