AI-generated and recycled disaster videos from Venezuela and China show how quickly fabricated footage can outrun reliable information, leaving social media users to separate genuine eyewitness evidence from engagement bait
A jury in Nashville heard this week that Meta once concluded, in its own internal language, that the features keeping teenagers glued to Instagram were “inherently at odds with well-being”, and that the company then chose to say nothing about it. The l…
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk’s mission to turn X into an “everything app,” is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks include Apple Wallet support […]
X Money has officially launched in the US, bringing peer-to-peer payments, a Visa debit card, and high-yield savings accounts to eligible X Premium users.
Meta is rolling out Meta AI to Threads direct messages globally starting today. All users can now share posts, images, links, and videos with Meta AI in a one-on-one conversation, ask follow-up questions, and explore topics privately. The feature mirro…
Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop using it. The OpenAI CEO said on the “Relentless” podcast that he forced himself to learn the app while OpenAI was building Sora, its AI-generated video social network. “I made myself get addicted to …
Paramount just paused its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Independent creators are scared, but after ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms,’ they have more ownership.
The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord and Meta misuse “section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a shield against accountability”. That single sentence explains the…
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