Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M
Retro, the friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram product engineers Nathan Sharp and Ryan…
Law no longer noble profession —VeryDarkMan
Social media activist, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, says law is no…
Ashmusy reacts to Phyna’s allegations, tenders apology to fans
Content creator and actress, Ashmusy, has broken her silence following the controversy surrounding her…
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Meta's India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media…
Why is Meta calling out TikTok and YouTube with a flurry of new ads? It’s a game of ‘reputational jujitsu.’
Meta has a message for the public: Don't forget about TikTok and YouTube.After Meta's…
Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral
After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday…
Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data
In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures,…
Has Social Media For Children Just Changed Forever?
Tech giant Meta will pay up to $18billion to settle claims its platforms harm…
‘This is cruelty’ – ADC criticises FG’s $1bn social protection programme
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has criticised the Federal Government's $1 billion social protection…
What smart people are saying about Meta’s settlement
Meta settled a teen social media addiction lawsuit with states for about $18 billion.Some…
Meta’s $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety
Perhaps our days of doomscrolling are numbered, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well
Not everyone shares that pessimism, though. "I think the technology has evolved quite a…
Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web
Flipboard, the news magazine software company that has more recently invested in the open…
Australia’s social media ban for teens is going, uh, pretty badly
Imagine for a moment that you're an Australian 14-year-old (if you are an Australian…
Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states
The social media giant says the new protections will automatically apply to users under…
Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
By settling, Meta is not admitting that it's guilty of these claims, but it…
