Breakups suck — but they arguably suck more than ever thanks to social media. Before our modern era, people floated in and out of our lives. You might’ve forgotten someone you’ve previously dated. If not, at least you couldn’t see their daily moves at your fingertips. “Social media has changed the way that people naturally…
On Monday, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was named the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And, almost immediately, the internet was brazen about its thirst for him. When news broke out about the shooting last Wednesday, the internet also wasn’t shy about its lack of sympathy about the killing. Jokes and memes popped…
Following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday, the internet erupted with jokes, memes, and, later, thirst posts for the insurance magnate’s shooter. The assassination was an event that could, for many, signal the start of a more critical look at corporations, how the people leading them treat the public, and how the…
Cameo is making room for more than celebrity greetings, expanding its personalised messaging service to let anyone sign up to make custom videos for money. Announced in a blog post on Tuesday, the platform has officially launched its CameoX initiative, which began a pilot program last May as a “strategic decision to allow just about…
Bluesky Social is having a moment, but that new influx of users is creating an impersonation problem. Thus, the decentralized platform is rolling out a “more aggressive” policy on parody accounts that aren’t clearly labeled. SEE ALSO: Bluesky has growing pains. Here’s what it can learn from X/Twitter In a thread on the platform’s safety…
Bluesky replies will now default to appear by “hotness” in a contentious update to the social media platform. Announced this week as part of the app’s 1.95 software update, post replies will now appear as “hot replies first”, which is the new default setting. “With this release, you can now display replies by “hotness,” which…
In a long-anticipated Senate vote, Australian is banning children under 16 years old from using social media. It is the world’s strictest law protecting young people from the effects of social media. “Social media is doing harm to our kids and I’m calling time on it,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a press conference…
File this under nice problems to have: Bluesky is growing like gangbusters. But hiding beneath that nice problem is a whole viper pit of nasty ones, as any study of Twitter history will tell you. The Twitter-like social media underdog (or, given its logo, under-butterfly) zipped past the 20 million-user mark last week, with more…
Bluesky is already facing its first major AI scrape, despite the stance of its owners that it will never train generative AI on user data. Reported by 404Media on Nov. 26, one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face. The dataset…
More users means more problems, and social media wunderkind Bluesky is no exception. On Monday, Bluesky announced new moderation efforts to address a growth in concerning user content amid its incredible growth. In an exclusive with Platformer, Bluesky explained that it would be quadrupling its content moderation team, currently a 25-person contracted workforce, in order…