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Echoes of the Feed: Why AI Regulation Demands the Same Hard Calls as Social Media In the rapidly evolving world of technology, artificial intelligence stands at a cros...

HMD Global Unveils XploraOne: Safe Hybrid Phone for Kids with GPS Tracking

The Fortress of Focus: HMD's Walled Garden for Young Digital Explorers In an era where smartphones have become ubiquitous extensions of our daily lives, a growing chor...

Man Sabotages Plagiarizing AI Page with Poison Pills, Exposing Vulnerabilities

The Poison Pill Uprising: Sabotaging AI Slop in the Social Media AbyssIn the sprawling digital ecosystem of social media, where algorithms churn out content at breakneck...

Discord Launches In-Chat Purchases and Gifting for Marvel Rivals

Discord's Chat-to-Cart Revolution: Embedding Commerce in Gaming Conversations In a move that could redefine how gamers interact with their favorite titles, Discord has...

TikTok Adds Slider to Control AI Content in For You Feeds

In the ever-evolving world of social media, TikTok is taking a bold step to address one of the most pressing challenges of the AI era: the proliferation of synthetic content flo...

Australia Enacts Social Media Ban for Under-16s Starting 2025

Down Under's Digital Lockout: Unpacking Australia's Controversial Social Media Ban for Teens Australia's pioneering legislation to bar children under 16 from social me...

Engineer Bypasses Imgur UK Geo-Block with VPN Proxy Amid Regulations

The Great Imgur Blackout: How UK Regulations Sparked a Wave of Tech Rebellion In the fall of 2025, the image-sharing platform Imgur made a drastic move...

The $1.5 Trillion Redemption: How Mark Zuckerberg Turned a Cash Incinerator into Silicon Valley’s Envy

In late 2022, the narrative surrounding Meta Platforms was one of hubris and inevitable decline. The company’s stock had shed two-thirds of its value, Wall Street had soured...

The Semantics of Synthetic Reality: Inside Meta’s Struggle to Label AI Content Without Alienating Creators

In the high-stakes theater of content moderation, semantic precision is rarely a matter of mere grammar; it is a governance strategy. For Meta, the parent company of Facebook...

The Stockholm Escalation: Why Swedish Media Barons Are Trying to Put Mark Zuckerberg in the Police Crosshairs

In a quiet but calculated maneuver that signals a darkening horizon for Silicon Valley’s operations in Europe, the Swedish Media Publishers’ Association (TU) has bypassed the...

The Age of Verification: Regulators Tighten the Digital Dragnet on Teen Social Media Access

The era of the open internet, characterized by a frictionless entry for users of all ages, is rapidly dismantling under the weight of a new legislative consensus. From Brusse...

Transforming TikTok Affiliate Marketing with AI Automation

TikTok has been growing in popularity since its launch in 2016. The social media which has over 1.59 million users, has now become a key promotion format f...

The Geography of Outrage: X’s New Location Labels Expose the Foreign Machinery Behind American Political Division

When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he pledged to defeat the "spam bots" or die trying. Three years later, the platform now known as X has deployed a quiet but...

The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot: Washington Turns Up the Heat on Meta’s Illicit Ad Economy

In the expansive digital geography of Silicon Valley, few revenue streams are as lucrative—or as controversial—as the algorithmic advertising engine powering Meta Platforms I...

Meta Board Upholds Non-AI Fake Video of Filipino Politician Amid Disinfo Fears

Meta's Digital Hall of Mirrors: When Oversight Boards Bless Manipulated Realities In a decision that underscores the evolving challenges of content mode...

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