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For weeks now, the world has been awash in conspiracy theories spurred by weird artifacts in a photographic image of the missing Princess of Wales that she eventually admitted had been edited. Some of them got pretty crazy, ranging from a cover-up of Kate’s alleged death, to a theory that the Royal Family were reptilian aliens. But none was as bizarre as the idea that in 2024 anyone might believe that a digital image is evidence of anything.Not only are digital images infinitely malleable, but the tools to manipulate them…

Image Source : FILE Meta cleanses over 23 million inappropriate pieces of content in India from FB and Instagram Back in November 2023, Meta reportedly enforced content moderation measures by removing over 18.3 million content pieces from Facebook and 4.7 million content pieces on Instagram, specifically from the Indian accounts. The move was implemented across 13…

Meta is sticking to its guns—the social networking giant says it will follow through with its threat to cut off Canadians’ access to news on Facebook and Instagram following the passage of the hotly contested Online News Act. The news shutdown could significantly rattle news access for the more than 20 million Canadians who use the social networks, choke news outlets’ revenues,and set the stage for similar policy skirmishes around the world.Making the Facebook Papers PublicThe Canadian Senate passed the bill, also known…

An apparent change to Facebook’s algorithm in May caused a dramatic drop in traffic to news and media websites, according to a growing list of publishers and data from Echobox, a social media management company.Meta's Apparent Firing GoofIt’s a troubling change in an increasingly frail digital news business, where companies have little choice but to relyon social media’s biggest gatekeeper. Publishers say they deserve transparency, but as with similar changes in the past, there’s been no communication from Meta,…

After months of brainstorming and scheming, Meta is getting closer to releasing a Twitter clone to the world, according to a new report from The Verge. The company’s pitch is simple. Execs claim they will offer “a platform that is sanely run.”Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsOn Thursday night, The Verge reported that Meta chief product officer Chris Cox showed employees a preview of “Project 92,” a code name for a project Cox called “our response to Twitter” in a company-wide meeting. As explained by The Verge, Project 92 is…

Meta’s Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-esque body formed as a check on Facebook and Instagram’s content moderation decisions, received nearly 1.3 million appeals to the tech giant’s decisions last year. That mammoth figure amounts to an appeal every 24 seconds, 3,537 cases a day. The vast majority of those appeals involved alleged violations of just two of Meta’s community standards: violence/incitement and hate speech.Meta's Apparent Firing GoofThe appeal figures are part of the Oversight Board’s 2022 annual report,…

The Real Facebook Oversight Board (RFOB), a prominent internet advocacy organization, had its Instagram account abruptly suspended over the weekend after it posted content critical of Meta’s recent threat to cut off news access to news links in Canada and California. Though Meta has since lifted the suspension, consumer advocacy groups speaking with Gizmodo feared the actions were a clear case of a major tech company attempting to silence its critics. Meta would not say why the account was suspended.Nobody’s Really…

Duplicate photos and videos can be a real hassle, taking up room on disk (and in the cloud), plus giving you plenty of clutter to sift through when it comes to finding the files you’re after. Thankfully, from Apple Photos to Google Photos to Dropbox, you’ve got a number of options for weeding out duplicates and making sure you only have one copy of each picture and clip.Making the Facebook Papers PublicOf course, you absolutely need duplicates in terms of backing up your files in several places and on several devices, but…

BeReal dropped a new feature to help users better connect with their friends by using RealMoji reactions or RealChat. The addition seems similar to Instagram, as BeReal seems to compete with the platform to stay in the social media limelight.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsRealChat will provide “a space to privately and authentically share and react to each other’s BeReal, share a unique BeReal to stay connected with their close friends,” a BeReal spokesperson said in an email to Gizmodo. The shift will not only allow…

Instagram head Adam Mosseri released a lengthy video late Wednesday explaining the social network’s ranking algorithms and addressing potential concerns of shadowbanning. The at-times-technical, nine-minute video comes just weeks ahead of the rumored launch of Instagram’s new, decentralized text-based Twitter clone. Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsOn the issue of shadowbanning—which Mosseri previously said doesn’t exist on Instagram—he tried to pour cold water on rumors saying Instagram suppresses users’ content if they…