Have you ever wondered what subscription services your friends pay for? No, we’re not talking mainstream streaming platforms like Disney+ or mundane online cloud services like Google One. What if you knew the weird things your friends are paying for? Well, Twitter just made a version of that possible on its platform. Twitter has a…
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Tuesday declaring what many families already know to be true: Social media use may cause harm to children and adolescents. Murthy’s 19-page advisory outlines the ways in which social media can expose children to violence, sexual and hate-based content, disordered eating, bullying, and predatory and self-harming…
How does one turn $400 million into a cool $50 million in just 3 short years? By acquiring GIPHY, the GIF search engine! Because that’s exactly what happened to Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta. On Tuesday, the stock photo company Shutterstock announced that it was buying GIPHY from Meta for $53 million in cash. …
Another new bug is apparently plaguing Twitter. And this time the problem is a pretty big one from a privacy standpoint. Twitter users are reporting that once-deleted tweets have since returned to their profile. The issue affects not only regular tweets, but replies and retweets as well. The Verge’s James Vincent reported on Monday that…
Right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder is – once again – just a single strike away from permanently losing his channel and it’s more than 5.6 million subscribers. What did Crowder do this time? He let Alex Jones, who is permanently banned from YouTube, guest host his show. “We issued a strike to the StevenCrowder and CrowderBits…
After attempts to turn Twitter into a full-fledged subscription platform have failed, Twitter owner Elon Musk has his sights set on turning the microblogging platform into a full-fledged video service. Twitter users have long been able to upload short, minutes-long videos. But, since Musk came along and acquired Twitter, longform has become a priority on…
Buy Me a Coffee, an online crowdfunding service for creators, has immediately reacted to a new report showing how far-right influencers were raising money on its platform. Dozens of influential figures in the QAnon conspiracy community have been banned from the Buy Me a Coffee platform, which allows users to drop one-off payments as well…
By now you probably have heard the big news: Elon Musk is passing the baton to his newly announced Twitter CEO, former NBCUniversal head of advertising Linda Yaccarino. Musk may like that Yaccarino seems to share the same right-wing politics as he does and that probably played a role in her hire, but that’s not…
Months after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll in which the platform’s users voted for him to step down, we now know just who Twitter’s new CEO is going to be. On Friday, Musk confirmed reports that the new CEO for Twitter – technically, X Corp. now – is going to be former head of…
Good news, Tesla investors! In a tweet today, Elon Musk shared that Twitter – well, its new parent company X Corp. that is – has hired a new CEO who will start within 6 weeks. “Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter,” Musk tweeted on Thursday. “She will be starting in…