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TikTok was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for October 2020 with close to 66 million installs, which represented a 9.5 percent increase from October 2019.

WhatsApp was the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide last month with more than 57 million installs.

Read more on SensorTower.

After one year of Disney+ being live on the app stores, Apptopia estimates it has been downloaded 100 million times globally, with 62% of those coming from the US and 38% from international markets.

Global numbers do not include India, where Disney+ is built into the Hotstar app. You may remember from an earlier report, we estimated that after just one month, Disney+ had 22 million global downloads with 85% of them coming from the US.

Read more on Apptopia.

In the wake of the 2016 election, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks were heavily criticised for failing to clamp down on and limit the spread of disinformation on their platforms.

A week after one of the most tumultuous elections in American history, Twitter has now released an overview of its efforts to label misleading tweets about the 2020 election. It stated that it attached a label to 300,000 misleading tweets between October 27 and November 03 under its Civic Integrity Policy, amounting to 0.2 percent of all tweets sent about the election.

Read more on Statista.