Reddit CEO Steve Huffman caused a stir when he told a tech show that the platform was considering some form of ID verification to combat bots. Now Huffman has officially addressed the issues in a message to Reddit users posted right on the platform itself. Huffman says Reddit isn’t looking to identify its anonymity-loving user…
The first thing BTS ask for on Arirang, the group’s long-awaited fifth studio album, is simple: “Put your phone down.” It sounds almost cliché in an era of screen fatigue, but coming from BTS, it lands with a strange kind of dissonance. This is, after all, a group that didn’t just benefit from social media…
Reddit has a real bot problem on its hands. And, in order to deal with this problem, Reddit is considering turning to the latest go-to solution for the tech industry: ID verification. On the tech show TBPN, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman spoke about how AI has caused issues for the platform and discussed potential solutions.…
If you’ve spent any time consuming dating content lately, you’ve almost certainly encountered the vocabulary: high value, alpha, body count, Chad. Terms that, not long ago, were esoterically confined to misogynistic, racist incel (“involuntarily celibate”) forums and have now migrated wholesale into mainstream culture — repackaged as self-improvement content, dating advice, and meme language for…
Following the Australian government’s social media ban for kids under 16, governments around the world are looking into the possibility of similar style bans. These governments considering these social media bans now have at least one unlikely supporter: The CEO of Pinterest. In a piece published for Time, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready has come out…
Have you ever heard that ol’ country song “Who gets the family bible when two grownups lose heart?” Well, we may need a new version for the Gen Z era, because according to a litigation strategist I met at SXSW 2026, it’s actually the family TikTok account creators should be worried about. That’s right, TIL…
UPDATE: Mar. 18, 2026, 12:28 p.m. EDT It appears that the brief outage of X has been resolved. DownDetector reports are slowing down and Mashable reporters have since been able to access feeds and search on the platform. Is X down? That’s the question thousands of social media users are asking on Wednesday morning, as…
Is the dislike button on replies coming back to Elon Musk’s social media platform X? It seems like it, according to posts from X head of product Nikita Bier. Last night on X, Bier hinted that the dislike button on replies may be making its return and even shared a screen recording of the feature…
The beauty of live television is that absolutely anything can happen, and nowhere is that more reliably, terrifyingly true than at the Oscars. The Academy Awards like to present themselves as the pinnacle of Hollywood elegance, and yet the ceremony has an almost proud history of producing moments that range from the benignly chaotic like…
Timothée Chalamet is now a four-time Best Actor loser at the Academy Awards, adding another near-miss to his growing collection after failing to take home the trophy for his role as Marty Mauser in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme. Marty Supreme, with nine nominations, did not take home any Oscars. The competition was stiff, but Michael…