After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, Including A “Black Qu...
Photo editing and sharing app VSCO says it is now profitable, has a user base of 200M worldwide, and has 160K subscribers for its $59.99/year Pro product
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg : X: @lapresmidi , @caseymlewis , @edludlow , @drjessmaddox , @analoguepilot , @joeldflory , @dmcgco , and @jeiting X: Lauren Sherman / @lapresmidi : Every time I see the Vi...
During oral arguments, SCOTUS justices seemed reluctant to strike down Texas' and Florida's social media laws, but raised concerns about companies' 1A rights
Update Tim Wu / New York Times : Big Tech's Latest Power Grab: the Constitution Washington Post : A roundup of the oral arguments made in the Supreme Court for two cases involving Florida's and Texas'...
Illinois passes the US' first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and featured kids of influencers to a percentage of earnings
Illinois has officially passed the nation's first legislation aimed at protecting child influencers, in a move advocates … Threads: @phil.lewis . X: @ellepolloloca , @fortesalatifi , @fortesalatifi , ...
A look at the issues fomented by a decentralized web, including a rise in conspiratorial thinking due to more siloed online spaces and increasing app fatigue
From social networks to crypto, independently run servers are being touted as a solution to the internet's problems. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @kissane@mstdn.social , @PrivacyDigest@mas.to , an...
U.S. WeChat Users Alliance, a nonprofit, files a lawsuit in district court in SF against Trump's executive order banning transactions with WeChat and ByteDance
a president essentially shutting down a social network—as normal. https://twitter.com/... Arjun Kharpal / @arjunkharpal : TikTok will challenge Trump's executive order banning U.S. transactions. Any l...
Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why “slow media” curated by humans should replace today's social media
My quest to imagine a different reality. Tweets: @nytimes , @ngrossman81 , @scottgreenfield , @craigmod , @profjessmaddox , @annaleen , @noahpinion , @warinthefuture , @janinezacharia , @fox , @amyxzh...