Browsing: Social Media

X is apparently experimenting with a strange tactic to get users to pay to boost their posts. People are starting to see a brief animation of an arm taking over the post composer in the X app. The arm appears only briefly and points at the “promote” button, according to multiple posts and screenshots from…

Discord is making a policy change that will further increase the visibility of conversations on its largest public servers. On November 16, the platform’s Discoverable Servers will all be getting Server Web Pages. These hubs will display some basic information about the server, including a description and summaries of discussions happening on their public channels.…

Instagram is making its way to yet another screen, and this time, Apple TV is getting a taste of the Reels rabbit hole. The company has launched a dedicated Instagram app for Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows to the big screen. So, if watching one quick clip on a phone somehow…

Greece’s parliament has passed a social media ban for kids under 15 after its prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis first announced the measure earlier this year. The bill, which Mitsotakis called “difficult but necessary,” is among the first to be imposed in the European Union so far and will go into effect on January 1, 2027. The new…

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has filed a lawsuit against Meta over the company’s handling of scam advertisements. The suit alleges that the social media business does not do enough to prevent fraudulent ads on its platforms. It further claims that Meta has not taken stronger action against those scams because they generate…

YouTube is preparing to launch an audiobooks feature as soon as next year and has been in talks with publishers over the previous months, according to the Wall Street Journal. You can already find a bunch of channels with audiobook videos on the platform if you look. Some of them feature titles in the public domain,…

SpaceXSI has announced a unified membership scheme across its products called the X Subscription. The company was formerly known as SpaceXAI until its CEO Elon Musk announced that he would rename it, following President Donald Trump’s push to use the term “super intelligence” instead of artificial intelligence. An X Subscription plan will include access to Grok, Grok…