Reddit’s new Rules Hub uses AI to enforce moderation by intent, not keywords. Automod’s other features stay.
Reddit’s new Rules Hub uses AI to enforce moderation by intent, not keywords. Automod’s other features stay.

Reddit announced a new suite of moderation tools that will eventually replace Automod’s enforcement capabilities, not Automod itself. The centrepiece is Rules Hub, which uses large language models to evaluate whether posts and comments match the intent…

Reddit is replacing Automod with AI that reads intent, not keywords. Old Reddit’s days are numbered.
Reddit is replacing Automod with AI that reads intent, not keywords. Old Reddit’s days are numbered.

Reddit announced plans to replace core moderation infrastructure that has run the platform for years. The most significant change: Rules Hub, a new moderation system that uses large language models to evaluate whether posts and comments match the inten…

TikTok’s 30 World Cup Creators Never Filmed A Match. That Was The Point

At the 2026 World Cup, TikTok and FIFA gave 30 creators access to everything but live match play, revealing how sports coverage is moving to the second screen for fans.

TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.
TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.

In 2021, TikTok changed its algorithm to stop users being flooded with harmful content. But it did not give the safer version to everyone. It held 10% of US users on the old version, about 15 million people at the time. It wanted to test whether the sa…

Snap is losing its $10 users and gaining $1 ones. It beat anyway, and the stock jumped.
Snap is losing its $10 users and gaining $1 ones. It beat anyway, and the stock jumped.

Snap had a good quarter, and the market treated it like a rescue. The shares jumped after hours, up as much as 13%, once the company beat estimates. The catch is where that rally begins: a stock near its all-time lows, down about 37% this year. The hea…

OpenAI flew influencers to a nature resort to fix its image. The internet called it greenwashing.
OpenAI flew influencers to a nature resort to fix its image. The internet called it greenwashing.

OpenAI has an image problem, and it just spent a weekend making it worse. The company flew a group of influencers to a luxury resort to soften how the public sees AI. The internet took one look and called it greenwashing. The event, branded “Summer Cam…

TikTok has never let a teen-addiction case reach a jury. It just settled three more.
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 cases it was scheduled to fight in October, Reuters repo…

MySpace coming back — again — is no surprise; I’m only shocked it’s not been announced as the first all-AI social media platform

Myspace’s owners promise a revival, but with myriad questions about the relaunch swirling, we can reach only one likely and unfortunate conclusion.

Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble
Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble

Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO. This is one of my favorite kinds of interviews to do on Decoder, because a couple years ago, we had Bluesky’s prior CEO, Jay Graber, on […]

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Slings Record Brand Deals. The Brands On Screen Tell The Real Story.

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ set a $309 million promotional campaign record. But the brands that paid to appear on screen tell the real story about advertising’s future.