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Meta didn't ask permission. It didn't wait for legislation to force its hand. In September 2024, the company flipped a switch and moved every Instagram user under 18 into a r...

Elon Musk’s X May Be Running Afoul of U.S. Sanctions on Iran — and Nobody Seems to Be Enforcing It

A prominent sanctions watchdog is warning that X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, may be violating U.S. sanctions on Iran by allowing Iranian state-affiliated e...

TikTok and Apple Music Team Up to Let Users Stream Full Songs During Listening Parties

TikTok just made a move that should make every music industry executive sit up and pay attention. The platform has partnered with Apple Music to allow users to stream full-le...

Google’s Gemini CLI Just Went Open Source — And It’s Already Reshaping How Developers Work

Google dropped Gemini CLI as an open-source project, and the developer community noticed immediately. The tool, which brings Gemini's AI capabilities directly into the termin...

Meta Shuts Down 150,000 Accounts Tied to Massive Scam Network: What Security Pros Need to Know

Meta just pulled the plug on roughly 150,000 accounts linked to a sprawling criminal operation running out of Southeast Asia. The scale is staggering. According to...

Meta Launches AI Scam Detection Tools on Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger

Meta has announced the deployment of advanced tools designed to identify and mitigate scams across its major platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. This move co...

Meta’s Oversight Board Slams the Company’s AI Content Moderation Policy as Inconsistent and Opaque

Meta's Oversight Board just delivered a sharp rebuke of the company's approach to using AI for content moderation, calling its policies inconsistent and lacking transparency....

Fake AI-Generated War Content Is Flooding X, and the Platform Can’t Keep Up

A wave of AI-generated images and videos depicting fabricated scenes of a U.S.-Iran war has overtaken X, formerly Twitter, racking up millions of views and exposing the platf...

Jay Graber: The Quiet Architect Trying to Rewire Social Media From the Inside Out

Jay Graber doesn't fit the mold of a typical social media CEO. She's not a billionaire founder chasing ad revenue or a corporate climber optimizing engagement metrics. She's...

X’s Grok AI Photo Editing Toggle Is a Privacy Concession That Solves Almost Nothing

X is giving users a toggle to block Grok, its AI chatbot, from editing their photos. That's the headline. The reality is far less generous than it sounds.As...

AI Can Now Unmask Anonymous Social Media Accounts — and the Implications Are Worse Than You Think

Anonymity on social media is dying. Not slowly, not theoretically — right now, with tools that already exist and researchers who've already proven they work.A...

RSS Is Quietly Resurging as Users Flee Algorithmic Social Media Feeds

RSS is back. Not with a bang, not with a viral moment, but with the slow, deliberate return of users who've grown exhausted by algorithmic feeds that prioritize engagement ov...

X’s New Product Recommendation Ad Format: How Posts Could Become Direct Shopping Opportunities

X is experimenting with an advertising innovation that could fundamentally change how brands connect product conversations with immediate purchasing opportunities. The platfo...

Indonesia Bans Social Media for Kids Under 16: What the Tech Industry Needs to Know

Indonesia just drew a hard line. The country announced a social media ban for anyone under 16 years old, joining a growing wave of governments worldwide that are deciding tec...

X Now Lets Creators Paywall the End of Their Tweet Threads

X is testing a feature that lets creators lock the final posts in a thread behind a paywall. It's called Threads+, and it's exactly what it sounds like: write a thread, hook...

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