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Meta Platforms Inc. notified employees Thursday it will eliminate about 8,000 positions—10% of its workforce—starting May 20. The company also plans to scrap hiring for 6,000 op...

Threads Live Chats: Meta’s Play for Real-Time Sports Buzz in the X Era

Meta's Threads app just fired a shot in the social media wars. Live Chats arrived Tuesday, letting users pile into public group conversations tied to live events. Think NBA p...

TikTok’s Stealth AI Meme Remixer Ignites Creator Revolt Over Hidden Opt-Ins

TikTok quietly flipped the switch on an experimental AI tool called the Meme Remixer, and creators are scrambling. Viewers in a limited U.S. pilot can now pluck a still frame fr...

X’s 20-Fold API Surge for Link Posts Hits News Aggregators and Developers Hard

Posting a link on X through its API used to cost a penny. Now it's 20 cents. That 1,900% jump, effective April 20, 2026, has forced changes at high-profile accounts like Techmem...

Reddit’s User Growth Stalls: Why Wall Street’s Darling Faces Fresh Scrutiny on Engagement Metrics

Reddit shares closed at $166.28 on April 20, 2026, down 3.72% that day amid fresh doubts over user engagement. The drop echoed a pattern investors know too well. Logged-in user...

Geese’s Viral Surge: When Marketing Mimics the Masses on TikTok

Brooklyn's indie rock outfit Geese stormed into the spotlight last fall. Their fourth album, Getting Killed, dropped in late September 2025 and quickly topped year-en...

Threads Catches Up: Desktop DMs and Web Overhaul Signal Meta’s Push for Power Users

Meta's Threads is expanding its web footprint. The platform just unveiled a redesigned browser interface that brings direct messages to desktop for the first time. Connor Hayes,...

X’s Cashtags Ignite $1 Billion Trading Surge in Days, Reshaping Finance on Social Feeds

Elon Musk's X platform just flipped the script on financial information. Cashtags hit iPhones in the U.S. and Canada on April 14, 2026. Type $TSLA or $BTC. Tap it. Live chart...

Europe’s Quiet Purge of WhatsApp: Civil Servants Shift to Sovereign Messengers Amid Spy Fears

European bureaucrats once tapped out urgent notes on WhatsApp and Signal. No more. Governments across the continent are shoving those apps aside, rolling out homegrown alternati...

Milan Court’s Green Light to Meta Class Action Signals Rising GDPR Reckoning for Big Tech

A Milan court ruling last week has opened the door to a collective lawsuit against Meta Platforms, thrusting the social media giant back into the spotlight over a massive data s...

Google Poaches TikTok’s Top U.S. Ads Executive, Signaling a New Front in the Battle for Short-Form Video Dollars

Blake Chandlee spent nearly a decade building TikTok's advertising machine in the Americas. Now he's taking what he learned to the competition.Google has hired Chandle...

The Government Wants to Know Who Criticized ICE on Reddit — and the First Amendment Is Standing in the Way

A federal subpoena demanding that Reddit unmask an anonymous user who posted comments critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ignited one of the sharpest confront...

Meta’s Legal Reckoning: A Federal Judge Opens the Door to Sweeping Youth Addiction Claims

A federal judge in Oakland, California, has ruled that Meta Platforms must face trial over claims that its social media products — Instagram and Facebook — were deliberately...

The Digital Rights Group That Helped Build the Internet Just Walked Away From X

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the oldest and most influential digital rights organizations in the world, has quit X. Not quietly. Not ambiguously. It published a...

Instagram Finally Lets You Fix That Embarrassing Typo — But the Five-Minute Clock Is Ticking

For a platform with more than two billion monthly active users, Instagram has long been missing a feature so basic it borders on absurd. You couldn't edit your comments. Post...

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