When Elon Musk acquired X, then-known as Twitter, he proudly proclaimed that his social media platform would be a place where freedom of speech reigned. According to Musk, only content deemed illegal by government law would be removed. All other speech – including hate speech – would be fair game to publish on X. With…
Threads has been steadily rolling out new features and updates since its launch last summer. The latest: trending topics. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, took to Threads to announce the new feature on Tuesday, revealing that trending topics will be shown in both the search page and in the For You Feed in the app.…
Following a much buzzed-about trailer, Alex Garland’s political action thriller Civil War had its world premiere at SXSW last Thursday, garnering a slew of rave reviews. The reaction online since then — both to the movie itself and reviews out of the film festival — have been divisive, which might have been Garland’s purpose. Set during a…
BeReal is in a real bind. According to Business Insider, employees were told at a February all-hands meeting that the app had about ten months of runway left before running out of money. While BeReal has maintained a relatively low head count of 60 employees, its server costs are significant. Now, leadership is scrambling to…
It’s easy to say “goodbye” to Facebook. Most of your friends left long ago and you’re already trying to avoid your conspiracy theory-posting great aunt like the plague. However, Facebook is just one part of Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant, Meta. And you very likely use one of its other popular, more media-centric platforms. That’s…
X‘s big pivot to video will need to go on now without one of the three original shows it boasted about earlier this year. Former CNN host Don Lemon announced via a post on the platform, formerly known as Twitter, that Elon Musk canceled his upcoming exclusive show on X – just hours after Musk…
SXSW‘s Creative Industry Expo has offered some interesting and WTF tech this year. For us, however, one of the standouts on the floor was Positive+1. SEE ALSO: SXSW 2024: 3 WTF tech products, including an AI Marilyn Monroe The UK-based social media app, founded by Christian Mercer-Hall, is an online social networking platform that offers…
Social platform Bluesky is open-sourcing its moderation tool Ozone, allowing users to choose exactly how the content on their timelines is moderated. With the introduction of Ozone, Bluesky is allowing individuals and teams to run their own independent moderation services that can be integrated into the Bluesky app. Essentially, people will be able to install…
TikTok, the massively popular mobile viral video platform, has gone on the offensive to stop Congress from implementing a “total ban on TikTok.” Users in the U.S., which account for more than 170 million monthly active TikTok users, were served a pop-up message on Thursday urging them to call their representatives in Congress to voice…
X, formerly known as Twitter, has already backed off its new policy that discouraged – but did not prohibit – anti-trans hate and harassment against transgender users on the platform, just days after rolling it out. On Thursday, X updated its “Abuse and Harassment” policy to add a new section called “Use of Prior Names…