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Meta lashed out at its home state on Wednesday, threatening to shut off access to news links on Facebook and Instagram in California if the legislature passed a bill forcing it to pay news publishers for their journalism.Meta's Apparent Firing GoofThe proposed bill, dubbed the California Journalism Preservation Act, would force social networks like Facebook and Instagram or search engines like Google to pay news publishers a “journalism usage fee” when users access articles and when they sell advertising against news…

YouTube released Stories to 10,000 channels in November 2018.Image: Chubo - my masterpiece (Shutterstock)As YouTube continues to pour its energy into its TikTok clone YouTube Shorts, it’s leaving its Snapchat copycat in the dust. YouTube is officially shutting down its stories feature in just a few weeks.How To Remove Followers From TwitterThrough the Stories feature, YouTubers could post disappearing messages much the way users can on Snapchat or Instagram, except YouTube Stories stay live for 7 days instead of 24 hours,…

In 2022, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey left the company. One of his new projects, Bluesky, is a social media app that looks exactly like Twitter. The difference? Bluesky promises an unprecedented level of control over your scrolling experience. The goal, essentially, is to undo all of Dorsey’s self-described mistakes, fixing social media and maybe, pie-in-the-sky hopefully, the whole internet in the process. The company’s first step to that lofty goal is doing the work in public. If you know where to look, you can watch…

In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own awareness of the real-world harms that resulted from its relentless pursuit of its users’ attention.Whistleblower Frances Haugen—a former member of the Civic Integrity team at the company now called Meta—shared the…

Instagram is bringing more competition to Twitter with its new text app that may become available as soon as the end of June. Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has been quietly testing the app with celebrities and influencers for several months.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsMeta confirmed it is moving forward with the app’s development but did not specify an exact release date, and a company spokesperson told TechCrunch, “We’re exploring a standalone decentralized…

Facebook and Instagram could soon be news-free for our neighbors to the north. Meta has once again said it would rather scrap news links on its platforms in Canada than comply with pending legislation.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsCanada’s Online News Act, a bill officially called C-18, would force online platforms to pay publishers for their content. In other words: the legislation would make sites like Facebook and Google pay news outlets like Gizmodo a fee for content linked or shared on their platforms. Tech…

The Federal Trade Commission proposed a “blanket prohibition” that would ban Meta from monetizing children’s data Wednesday. The FTC says Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—failed to comply with an existing 2020 privacy order by misleading parents about the control they have over Facebook Messenger, and misrepresenting the ways outside app developers can access data.Making the Facebook Papers Public“Facebook has repeatedly violated its privacy promises,” said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of…

Image Source : SNAPCHAT Snapchat adds its AI chatbot for all users, empowers more creators Snapchat has announced the rollout of its new AI chatbot named 'My AI'. The new chatbot could be used by all the users across the world who are using the instant image-sharing platfrom for a better way to chat with friends. At present, Snapchat+ subscribers are currently…

Out with the old and out with the new too, I guess. Image: Postmodern Studio (Shutterstock)Imgur has announced a new policy on NSFW content—and you should say goodbye to all of it. The image, GIF, and video hosting platform familiar to Redditors everywhere has announced that beginning May 15 it will be forbidding all future (and purging all pre-existing) NSFW content posted by users.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIImgur released its refreshed Terms of Service yesterday, which breaks down…

Instagram has caved to years of creator demands. The social platform will now let users include links to multiple external sites directly in their in-app profiles, as reported by multiple outlets and confirmed by Gizmodo.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsThe new 5-link allowance should be available to all Instagram accounts beginning today, with the most recently updated version of the mobile app. More bio links havelong been a feature requested by influences and business accounts, as well as regular users. The feature has…