Instagram’s insatiable thirst for your personal data now comes with a threat: hand it over, or else. The Facebook-owned social media platform announced Monday that, going forward, users will be required to submit their birthdays to the company. If they don’t feel like complying, then they won’t be able to use the service. “We’ll show…
Months after hopping on the Clubhouse bandwagon, Twitter found a way to monetize it. Twitter announced Friday that some users on iOS would be able to charge money for Spaces audio chats. That’s the feature Twitter launched back in May in response to the Clubhouse zeitgeist — a moment that now feels like ancient history.…
RIP Milk Crate Challenge, 2021-2021. The latest viral sensation that takes extreme liberties with the idea of personal safety might live on elsewhere, but it won’t be on TikTok. That’s because searching for the videos, which feature people trying to walk up and then down precariously stacked milk crates, will direct you to a big…
Snapchat got closer to turning its camera into a full-fledged visual search engine on Thursday by putting its Scan feature front and center. Launched two years ago, Scan analyzes what the camera sees and suggests actions. For example, scanning a person’s body will pull up suggestions for full-body lenses. Through app partnerships, scanning a plant…
Reddit’s volunteer moderators have shared an open letter demanding the company ban subreddits dedicated to spreading COVID-19 misinformation. In response, Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman released the tech bro statement equivalent of a shrug emoji. Posted Wednesday on subreddit r/vaxxhappened, the moderators’ open letter calls Reddit out for allowing dangerous COVID-19 misinformation to thrive…
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Over the years, my Facebook feed has turned into a hodgepodge of MLM peddlers, COVID misinformation, rage over said COVID misinformation, and Minions memes. Yet, embarrassingly, I still check up on it every now and again — and I know I’m not alone in that. In keeping with this surreptitious Facebook use, I don’t want…
Be careful who you trust, gentle internet user. If Facebook’s Wednesday report on “Widely Viewed Content” is to be believed, the most-shared links appearing in people’s News Feeds during the second quarter of 2021 covered topics like football, hemp, charitable donations, and recipes. You may want to hold off on placing too much trust in…
OnlyFans put out a tweet on Saturday that embodies the phrase “too little, too late.” The tweet directly addresses “sex workers,” and uses the hashtag #SexWorkIsWork, while offering no solutions for a new anti-sexually explicit content policy it has rolled out that makes existing on the platform in a way of the creators’ choosing impossible.…
OnlyFans definitely cares deeply about its sex worker creators. As long as they follow some arbitrary new rules. The platform — made popular and successful by sex workers— inspired outrage and disbelief Thursday when it announced that it would ban sexually explicit content. It released details in a revised acceptable use policy on Friday, which…