Galaxy AI's New Photo Editing Features Will Amplify Social Media's Inauthenticity Problem

Commentary: The features unveiled at Samsung's Unpacked event could make social media even more treacherous, especially for young adults. [...]

Today I learned what a social media bot farm looks like — and it made me delete my Reddit account

I've been a Reddit user for 13 years — and one video of a social media bot farm was all it took for me to delete my account. [...]

Social Media Workers Are Burnt Out and Relying on AI to Help. It's a Mixed Bag

AI might help social media pros be more productive, but it also means higher expectations. [...]

TikTok has never let a teen-addiction case reach a jury. It just settled three more.

TikTok has a consistent answer to the lawsuits accusing it of harming children: settle, quietly, before a jury sees the evidence. On Monday it did so again. The company has agreed to settle three case [...]

Indonesia to Ban YouTube, TikTok, Other Social Media Apps for Children Under 16

Indonesia is the latest country to block social media, saying the apps pose "increasingly real threats" to young people. [...]

Meta is testing clickable links in Instagram captions for verified subscribers

Instagram has long limited users' ability to share links, restricting link-sharing to Stories, Reels and user profiles. But that might now be changing. The company has started to test clickable l [...]

UK fines 4chan nearly $700,000 for failing its online safety act obligations

UK’s Ofcom has fined 4chan a total of £520,000 ($690,000) over the website’s failure to comply with the rules of Online Safety Act 2023. The biggest chunk of the amount came from 4chan’s failur [...]

X is changing its revenue-sharing policy to deter users pretending to be Americans

X is updating its revenue-sharing incentives to give more weight to engagement from a user’s home region, Nikita Bier, the company’s Head of Product has announced. Bier said the change in policy w [...]

Sora never understood what makes social media work

Social media hinges on the pretense of reality. OpenAI’s video AI platform didn’t. [...]