Amber Alert, the nationwide alert service for missing children, will now put breaking emergency information directly into your Instagram scroll — a collaboration between the social media app and several children’s safety organizations in honor of Global Missing Children’s Day. The alert, which is an acronym for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response,” was first instituted…
You may never have heard of Yubo before. It’s certainly not as big as Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram. The social networking app isn’t even usually listed alongside fairly new social platforms that have become extremely popular with Gen Z, such as TikTok, Twitch, or Discord. But now, Yubo has been thrust into the mainstream. Why?…
Set to compete with the likes of YouTube and Twitch is TikTok LIVE, a new subscription program allowing creators to engage with their communities in real-time. The program will work on a monthly basis, and will initially be available only to creators who have received invites. The beta test will launch on May 26 but…
Prepare to see a lot more Donald Trump on social media again. Truth Social is no longer siloed behind an iOS-only mobile app. Trump’s alternative social network, Truth Social, pushed out a notification on Friday to its current iOS app users informing them that a web version of the platform is now available. SEE ALSO:…
Your Twitter timeline’s going on a cleanse. The social media giant announced a new policy Thursday which aims to reduce the spread of viral misleading tweets on the platform. The crisis misinformation policy, as it’s officially dubbed, narrowly focuses on “false” content or allegations made during broadly defined times of crisis, and includes specific changes…
Twitch, Discord, 4chan, and 8chan all played a role in the white supremacist mass shooting in Buffalo this weekend, according to the shooter himself. New York Attorney General Letitia James wants to know exactly what role each one played. On Wednesday, James announced in a tweet that she was launching an investigation into those four…
Since its inception, TikTok has quickly become an arbiter of culture, memes, and even political organizing, all while curating eerily specific For Your Pages for its users full of dancing videos, funny filters, and viral songs. But one of its most promising uses is connecting more people to fun, educational accounts, spanning the range of…
For many, this is a hard Mother’s Day to “celebrate.” Since the Supreme Court majority opinion planning to strike down Roe v. Wade was leaked on May 2, the potential loss of reproductive rights has never loomed larger in the era since the original 1973 decision. Despite what anti-choicers sometimes argue, abortion is not anti-motherhood.…
It’s easy to feel discouraged by the incessant bad news and vapid takes on our social feeds, especially as our political leaders once again put the right to bodily autonomy at risk. But, on the other side of the perhaps dull coin, social media has ushered in a new era of increasingly democratized access to…
Look, not everyone needs to see all of your tweets all of the time. On Tuesday, Twitter announced a new feature which lets users tweet exclusively to pre-selected followers. Dubbed “Twitter Circle,” the limited test is being run globally and appears designed for instances where users explicitly don’t want their content to go viral. SEE…