Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?
Michael Calore: Yep. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Michael Calore: What about you, Zoë? Zoë Schiffer: My total screen time. I actually looked it up before and I think it’s like three …
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Meta Shuts Down Accounts Tracking Private Jets Of Mark Zuckerberg And Elon Musk
Photo: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC (Getty Images) What do you do when you’re a billionaire social media mogul worried about people sharing the publicly available location of your private jet? You …
Beijing orders Apple to pull WhatsApp, Threads from its China app store – National
Apple said it had removed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China to comply with orders from Chinese authorities. The apps …
Instagram moves to limit political content
Instagram has moved to limit political content, with users now having to go into their settings on the app to turn the limiting feature off. Users of the popular social …
Facebook, Instagram outages affect users worldwide
Social media platforms owned by Meta experienced outage issues Tuesday, affecting users around the world. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said a “technical” issue was the culprit for the difficulties users …
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads Are Coming Back Online After a 2-Hour Outage
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg used to describe his company’s mission as “making the world more open and connected.” Tuesday it did the opposite, as all of Meta’s social platforms, which …
Instagram, Threads no longer recommending political content
Instagram and Threads will no longer proactively recommend content about politics, Instagram announced on Friday. “We want Instagram and Threads to be a great experience for everyone,” the social media …
Meta Will Crack Down on AI-Generated Fakes—but Leave Plenty Undetected
Meta, like other leading tech companies, has spent the past year promising to speed up deployment of generative artificial intelligence. Today it acknowledged it must also respond to the technology’s …
Meta’s Threads app expands to ‘countries across’ Europe
Threads — Meta’s rival to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter — launched in “countries across” Europe on Thursday. “Today we’re opening Threads to more countries in Europe,” Meta …
The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One
When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, experts warned that his proposed changes—including less content moderation and a subscription-based verification system—would lead to an exodus of users and …