Social Media

August 28, 2026

Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral

After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt-out feature…
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August 28, 2026

Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data

In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures, Meta’s settlement agreement with attorneys general…
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August 26, 2026

X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping

Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X…
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August 20, 2026

Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards

Two senators have given TikTok a deadline to answer questions about an experiment that withheld a safety feature from 15…
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August 18, 2026

Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack

Social networking site Bluesky says its recent day-long disruption was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that flooded the…
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August 11, 2026

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024,…
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August 11, 2026

Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals

Social media companies like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation over claims that they…
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Tech News

July 23, 2026

Social media addiction lawsuit against Meta is dropped

A day after Snap tentatively settled with the plaintiff in a social media addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta as the only…
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July 21, 2026

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

Nearly a year ago, Elon Musk-owned X announced it would begin rebuilding the Android version of its app, which had…
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Tech News

July 19, 2026

The ‘Bad Blood’ Between Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan and Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour

Early one morning in November 2024, Shayne Coplan, the founder of Polymarket, awoke to an unexpected visit. A group of…
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July 16, 2026

X cracks down on creators who steal content

X is taking a tougher stance against people who try to abuse its creator revenue-sharing program by soliciting engagement and…
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July 11, 2026

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI. The feature,…
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