The brightest lights in European club soccer shine the brightest during the UEFA Champions League final. The ultimate peak of club soccer in the continent, only a few elite teams can lay claim to the title of “best in Europe.” This brings us to today, where, for the third time in each club’s history (and…
Reddit’s most popular third-party app, Apollo, will shut down due to new API fees Reddit’s recent decision to charge third-party developers exorbitant fees for API access just killed off it’s biggest, most popular app. Apollo for Reddit will shut down for good at the end of the month, according to developer Christian Selig. “In order…
There’s a concerning new trend among social media platforms when it comes to APIs, and it threatens how the modern internet works for normal everyday users. If you’re not a programmer or developer, perhaps you scroll on by whenever there’s an article about social media APIs. Perhaps you’re not familiar with what they are. API…
Over the past 24 hours, numerous Twitter employees, including its head of trust and safety, have resigned from the company. These resignations all came shortly after owner Elon Musk blamed his employees for bringing Twitter’s own advertiser hate speech policies to bear on a prominent right-wing media company. The chaos over at Twitter began on…
For a bunch of people who supposedly hate social media, we sure do spend a lot of time on it. Just 33 percent of U.S. adults have “some or a lot” of trust in social media, according to a late 2022 report from the Pew Research Center, and people who spend time on social media…
Twitter isn’t the only social media platform setting fire to it’s third-party app ecosystem in an attempt to monetize its API. Christian Selig, the developer of the popular Reddit client Apollo, announced on Wednesday that he may soon have to shut down the app because of Reddit’s new API pricing structure. In a post on…
With AI images now going viral across Twitter, the social media platform has decided to update its crowdsourced “fact checking” feature to directly deal with not just the tweet that includes the media, but the media itself. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) Twitter is now rolling out “Notes on Media”…
Ever since Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion last year, it’s been a widely agreed upon stance that he greatly overpaid for the social media platform. However, the amount in which he overpaid seems to be widening post-acquisition. According to Fidelity, Twitter is now worth around 33 percent what the billionaire originally paid for…
Troy Smocks, who was sentenced to 14 months in prison following threats he posted on now-offline conservative platform Parler, is suing Parler for $370 million. Parler banned Smocks after calling for violence in the wake of the insurrection on January 6, 2021. “Over the next 24 hours, I would say lets [sic] get our personal…
“Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world,” Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted last November, shortly after acquiring the company. “That’s our mission.” Earlier this month, Musk reiterated that Twitter is “hell bent on being the least untrue source of information.” However, according to European Commissioner Thierry Breton,…