It’s a new week, which means another TikTok trend has broken containment. This time, it’s all about the not-so-secret Group 7 — a supposedly exclusive club that’s taken over the app and appeared in countless viral videos over the past few days. So… what exactly is Group 7? Group 7 explained Put simply, “Group 7”…
Elon Musk’s X dropped its legacy verification program for users back when the platform was still known as Twitter. Since then, X has been a haven for misinformation and racism. However, according to X’s new head of product, Nikita Bier, the site is planning an overhaul to profiles in an attempt to restore user trust.…
There’s hardly ever such a thing as truly free money. We pay for everything, in some way: with labor, with time, with suffering. So getting a payment from a tech or social media settlement isn’t exactly free — it’s likely the company messed up in some way and it legitimately owes you that cash —…
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has settled a $128 million lawsuit with four former Twitter executives over their promised severance package. On Wednesday, Musk’s X settled with the company’s former Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, and General Counsel Sean Edgett. All four worked at…
President Donald Trump’s obsession with social media is so notorious that it has its own Wikipedia page. But since his return to the White House, that fixation has seeped into the highest levels of government, with cabinet officials adopting his combative style and reshaping how public servants behave online. Consider Vice President JD Vance, who…
Some would say postmodernism is ruining the things we love. It’s certainly crept into the offices of ad executives, who now use our goodwill to trick us into watching ad campaigns for mediocre cognac. After LeBron James teased a “second decision” on Monday — a nod to his 2010 announcement in which he announced he’d…
Never mind the debate over whether OpenAI’s GPT-5 release is disappointing, or whether it can revitalize the failing world of AI Agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has already moved on — to releasing Sora 2, the next generation of its text-to-video engine. And to Sora by OpenAI, a new iPhone app that shot to #1…
Threads is nearing X in mobile user numbers, according to data from Similarweb, a leading web analytics firm. The Twitter alternative from Meta is reportedly growing steadily and appears to be drawing users away from Elon Musk’s platform. A chart shared by Similarweb shows Threads steadily increasing its daily active users on both iOS and…
Love a TikTok so much that you want to keep it on your phone and treasure it forever? You can do that with the save video function built right into the app. “Save video” allows you to save your favorite TikToks to your phone’s photo library. Downloading TikTok videos allows you to have access to…
Instagram has always been pretty precocious. Now, just ahead of its 15th birthday, we have a new measure of its global fame — and it is on a level far beyond the dreams of regular teenagers. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the once-humble photo-sharing app, which he had the foresight to buy for…