Meta has banned ads from TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance across the US and several other countries as the rivalry between the major social media operators heats up, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The ban, which went into effect on Thursday, restricts ads and paid marketing messages from ByteDance, along with third-party ads that link […]
Since TikTok burst into mainstream consciousness, many things have been called a “TikTok clone”: YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Snapchat Spotlight, Netflix’s Clips, LinkedIn’s vertical video feed, and countless other, less recognizable names like Triller, Zynn, and Byte. For years now, Facebook and Instagram have pumped users’ feeds with video as Meta chases TikTok’s runaway success. […]
X is turning its NFL-focused Gametime feature into a year-round sports destination, starting with MLB and with other professional leagues to follow.
Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning has its fair share of cinematic flair, but many details in the story hew closely to real life. The movie tells the story of how Frances Haugen, a Facebook civic integrity product manager, came to leak a large trove of internal documents to Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz, […]
Who is Jane Doe? Online vigilantes have tried to expose the Cornell University student who filed a lawsuit accusing seven fraternity members of gang rape, and in so doing have invited a torrent of abuse on several other women. Her lawyers say three women have been falsely identified and harassed – and the real Jane […]
Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbes the change was understood internally as a way to m…
Amazon’s “About You” page has become a social media hit, for the things it says about shoppers. One user on Threads found that Amazon had concluded she “has flat buttocks”, Business Insider reported on Tuesday. Her post set off a wave of others sharing…
When David Fincher’s The Social Network premiered in 2010, many people still thought of Mark Zuckerberg as a genius who had revolutionized the world by creating Facebook. Writer Aaron Sorkin’s script was critical of Zuckerberg’s character and his ruthless approach to doing business, but it also helped mythologize the co-founder at a time when the […]
‘Verity’ earned a strong opening thanks to a female audience who discovered the story through Colleen Hoover’s novel. Women are showing up for several movies in 2026.
Blue Duck Capital Partners has written to Snap’s board urging it to sell about a fifth of its Specs subsidiary at a $5B valuation, raising $1B to fund roughly two years of spending without diluting Snap shareholders. It is the second fund to press Snap…