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Meta said on November 9 that it was extending Instagram’s age estimation technology worldwide. The system looks for accounts that may belong to teenagers even when their signup birthday says they are adults. If Meta cl...
Instagram and TikTok appeared together in six out of ten multi-platform uploads in ShortSync’s November 7 short-form video report. The figures come from video...
An invitation to a WhatsApp event will no longer require every guest to have WhatsApp. Meta announced the change on November 5: people can follow a shared link and RSVP without installing the app. The rollout is due to r...
Internal search results on Reddit have historically shown only user threads, communities, and uploaded media, even when someone typed in a specific product name. On November 3, Reddit said on its business blog that it ha...
Discord has closed an incident involving problems establishing voice calls. Its official status record marked the issue resolved at 21:43 UTC on October 31, or ...
Archive of Our Own has confirmed a security incident behind its extended outage, while saying no AO3 data has been deleted. The Organization for Transformative Works' October 30 update says works, bookmarks and kudos rem...
Reddit is taking its For You and Following feeds to a wider audience. In an October 28 announcement, the company said the two-feed experience would roll out globally over the next few weeks, giving users a visible choice...
Pinterest has opened Programmatic Deals to enterprise advertisers in selected markets, allowing them to buy some of its display and video inventory through media-buying platforms they already use. The October 26 announce...
YouTube is rolling out custom feeds that viewers can describe in their own words, alongside a mobile navigation change that moves Subscriptions to the top of Home. TeamYouTube announced the rollout on October 22. The new...
Reddit advertisers are getting a way to compare media plans before turning one into a draft campaign. A planner announced on October 20 estimates reach, impressions and costs. It arrives alongside a campaign optimization...
Meta says bursts of activity linked to a Claude tool triggered the mistaken suspension of the No Kings Coalition's Instagram account. Its fuller explanation on ...
LinkedIn is rolling out a creator dashboard while testing ways for members to earn from videos and professional advice. The dashboard is headed to members globally over the coming weeks. The money-making options have nar...
Facebook is giving people a more direct way to say what they want in Feed and Reels. Its new Your algorithm controls accept interests in the user's own words, instead of relying only on the clues left by likes, comments ...
Meta is removing a separate Access Verification review for developers whose apps use business data belonging to clients. The change simplifies one part of onboarding. It does not turn Facebook or Instagram data into an u...
A petition has put Orkut back in the conversation. Founder Orkut Büyükkökten wants support for a new social network built around personal connections. There is a catch for anyone expecting an invitation code or an old...
An approved political ad that has never run will not make Meta's election-week cutoff. The company has issued a reminder ahead of its US restriction period, which runs from October 27 through November 3 and covers politi...
TikTok's U.S. operator has published its midterm election plan, putting a round-the-clock operations center behind the scenes and voting information in front of users. TikTok USDS Joint Venture says security, engineering...
Bitchat has been removed from Apple's India App Store following a government demand, according to an Apple notification shared by developer Jack Dorsey. The action targets access to the offline messaging app through the ...
A new Pew Research Center report finds that concern about social media's effect on democracy is spreading across several countries. In the United States, 64% of adults say the impact has been more negative than positive,...
A creator can already see how a Reel performed. The harder part is deciding what that collection of numbers means for the next video. Meta is bringing an AI assistant to its Edits app to tackle that question, using a cre...
