Meta makes the platform even better for promoting podcasts. Meta After trying podcast-specific features in 2025, Meta is diving in head first and adding a collection of new tools to Threads to make it a better place to promote shows. Threads users can now share show transcripts, save episodes for later,…
They aim to protect minors, but these rules are not universally accepted. Dirk Von Mallinckrodt/Getty Images California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several measures aimed at protecting the state’s youth. These new laws include restrictions on potentially addictive social media features and limitations on how young users can interact with AI chatbots. The state…
Meta begins its international expansion of Community Notes. The company said it was beginning to test crowdsourced fact-checking in 16 Latin American countries, more than a year after rolling out the program in the United States and ending its partnership with U.S.-based fact-checking organizations. The company says it plans to take a similar approach with…
Instant Snapchat is getting a very old social media feature: event scheduling. Called “Snapchat Plans”, the application attempts to encourage IRL gatherings of its users with new tools allowing them to organize meetings for up to 200 people directly in the application. According to Snap, more than a third of its top users…
If you’re active on Threads, you know that most posts live and die by the platform’s “for you” algorithm. Since the app defaults to recommended posts and also forwards some of those posts to Instagram and Facebook feeds, the Threads algorithm ends up generating the majority of views for most people, even if you have…
A day after Instagram’s top executive was questioned in court about his team’s efforts to “limit” its access to teens’ safety data, Meta opted to settle rather than continue several weeks of litigation. Meta’s agreement with state attorneys general requires it to make sweeping changes to how teens use Facebook and Instagram, including stricter age…
Meta has agreed to settle a high-profile case involving children’s privacy and their addiction to social media. The company will pay up to $18 billion and make changes to its platforms to address claims from dozens of states that it designed Facebook and Instagram to create addiction among young users and collect personal data about…
This week, Meta is in court in another lawsuit over social media addiction and other alleged harms caused by its apps. This case is the latest test for the platform, which faces thousands of lawsuits over its handling of user safety and the impact of its applications on the mental health of adolescents. The trial…
X users will soon have a way to save their complaints about “shadowbans” affecting their reach on the service. The platform is testing a new tool that gives users details about how their posts are processed by the algorithm, including whether they have been limited in any way. The feature, which is currently only available…
The Oversight Board, the independent content moderation organization created by Meta, has made no secret of its desire to extend its scope to other companies. More recently, the board suggested its expertise could benefit AI companies. So far, no other companies have expressed interest in working with the group, at least not publicly. But the…