Pinterest announced Thursday that it would ban weight loss ads. The company says the move is a response to a rise in unhealthy eating habits and eating disorders since the pandemic started, as reported by the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). “NEDA is encouraged by this necessary step in prioritizing the mental health and well-being…
TikTok may be known for its young, viral dance craze-loving user base…but you still have to at least pretend to be 13 years or older to use it. On Wednesday, TikTok, the viral video app that blew up in popularity during the pandemic, released its first transparency report of 2021. The report covers the first…
Facebook is taking on Substack and other newsletter platforms with its own, free tool called Bulletin. Announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg via Facebook’s Live Audio Rooms on Tuesday, Bulletin is a set of publishing and subscription tools aimed at independent writers in the U.S. Bulletin offers each user their own standalone website with a…
TL;DR: The Complete 2021 Social Media Influencer Bundle aims to teach you the ins and outs of becoming an influencer. As of June 29, it’s on sale for $19.99. Getting paid to create and post content doesn’t just have to be an unattainable dream. There are ways you can learn to become a prominent influencer…
The great Facebook breakup, it seems, is not to be. At least not yet. It was only in late December that the Federal Trade Commission alleged in a lawsuit that Facebook was a monopoly and that it deserved to be broken up into its constituent parts of Instagram and WhatsApp. The complaint, backed by attorneys…
If you’ve had enough of Twitter, you’ll be glad to hear it’s a simple task to delete your account. After all, while the micro-blogging service is a fab digital tool for keeping up with news, memes, and other digital content, it can be a toxic place (*cough* reply guys *cough*), especially if you spend too…
In one of Silicon Valley’s latest attempts to tackle our online misinformation crisis, Google announced a new feature that warns U.S. users about trending topics that don’t have reliable search results yet. The prompt cautions users that, “it looks like these results are changing quickly,” further explaining that “if this topic is new, it can…
Eleven years. That’s how long Instagram has been around, and all that time, it had no decent web or desktop version — or at least not one which would let users create a post. This might change soon. According to Bloomberg, Instagram has started testing this feature, allowing users to post photos and videos from…
Reddit is officially in the NFT game. The front page of the internet announced the “experiment” Thursday morning, with Reddit Product Lead Peter Yang explaining that the non-fungible tokens would take the form of cartoon avatars modeled after the Reddit logo. Bidding on the NFTs, which are essentially metadata encoded onto the Ethereum blockchain that…
If you’re feeling Q’d out, you’re not alone. I, for one, would have been happy to leave my reading about the pro-Trump online conspiracy theory QAnon back in the Trump era. Despite the best efforts of its murder-minded followers who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Joe Biden was inaugurated. We’ve clawed back a hard-won…