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…
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, just became a slightly safer space for its transgender users – even if Elon Musk would prefer his right-wing fans not pay too much attention to it. On Thursday, tech news outlet Ars Technica noticed that the Musk-owned social media platform quietly added new rules to its “Abuse…
The lives of influencers can be transfixing. For some, influencers’ content can be informative and aspirational, but for others, it can be jarring, envy-inducing, and stir up questions about the creators’ source of wealth. The ire towards some influencers is so strong that there’s an entire site known as Tattle Life, which is populated by…
The Supreme Court is trying to decide how far the First Amendment reaches when it comes to social media. On Monday, the nine justices heard a pair of cases that question if states can force social media platforms to abide by censorship rules — even when the platforms deem those posts hateful or otherwise objectionable.…
NFT scams are not all that unusual on Elon Musk’s X. Neither are high-profile accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, getting hacked. However, it’s not everyday that an ESPN reporter with millions of followers gets hacked by a scammer looking to trick users of arguably the most mainstream NFT project into giving them access…