The last year has seen a record-breaking increase of online hate and harassment for many Americans, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). More than half of American adults and teens have experienced online harassment. The ADL’s annual “Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience” report adds a national perspective to claims…
IRL, a social app meant to connect young people and discover events, seemed to have everything going for it. The company was able to overcome the challenges of running an event discovery app during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when everyone was stuck inside. With a killer domain name in IRL.com and a…
Telegram is launching its own version of Stories, the ephemeral mixed media format made popular by Snapchat and copied by every social media app under the sun. The chat app’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov shared the news in his Telegram channel on Monday. “For years, our users have been asking us to implement Stories…
Another day, another Twitter apocalypse. This time Elon Musk’s company is purging some of the most popular automated accounts from its platform. Little by little over the past few weeks, API access was suspended for a huge cluster of Twitter’s most beloved bots. The suspensions were revealed when Twitter accounts that normally post automated pictures…
Popular subreddits are continuing to protest Reddit’s upcoming API changes via the medium of comedian John Oliver, and things are only getting stranger. On Wednesday, following another community vote, Reddit’s 30 million-strong community r/pics — which has allowed only images of Oliver to be posted of late — made another tweak to its new rules:…
It’s been over a week and a half since the 48-hour Reddit “Blackout” began, and some of the platform’s biggest subreddits continue to protest the company’s plans to charge exorbitant rates to third-party developers for API access. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman downplayed the protests early last week, claiming it was a vocal minority of users…
Making your online content and social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to captioning audio on your TikTok videos, users should be aware of these accessibility considerations. And it’s an important way to make sure your accounts are navigable…
The Reddit Blackout protesting the company’s unpopular API changes is continuing, nearly five days after the “48-hour” action started on Monday. But, contrary to what Reddit is saying publicly, it seems like the company has had enough of the protests. On Friday, moderators of popular Reddit communities began sharing messages they received from the company…
In the latest case against Twitter announced on Wednesday, a group of 17 music publishers have filed a lawsuit against the company alleging rampant copyright infringement on the social network. According to the publishers, Musk’s company allows users to share music on the platform without permission from the copyright holders. The companies that are suing…
The 48-hour Reddit “Blackout” is technically coming close to an end. However, the company’s blasé attitude about this issue, which clearly many of its users feel passionate about, may end up backfiring. And that scheduled two-day protest may be extended on some subreddit communities…indefinitely. On Monday, thousands of subreddits went private, blocking access to the…