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Meta to Pay $18 Billion and Add Teen Limits in Landmark Settlement

Meta reaches a proposed settlement worth up to $18 billion with a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys general, resolving a 2023 lawsuit that accuses the company of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among children and teenagers. The lawsuit also alleges that Meta misleads users about platform

27 Aug 2026 1 min read

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Zuckerberg's AI Manifesto Highlights Why the Public Distrusts Tech Leaders

Mark Zuckerberg publishes a sprawling 6,500-word manifesto envisioning a future powered by personal superintelligence, positioning Meta AI as the company building it. While the essay aims to inspire excitement about AI's potential, it repeatedly stumbles into reminders of how things could go wrong. The ideas aren'

10 Aug 2026 1 min read

LinkedIn Adds "Seems Like AI Slop" Button to Combat Low-Quality Content

LinkedIn introduces a new reporting button that allows users to flag posts that seem like AI-generated "slop." The feature appears in the three-dots menu on posts, and when a user clicks it, LinkedIn hides the post and thanks them for their feedback. The company uses this data to

31 Jul 2026 1 min read

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Twitter Imposes Strict Daily Reading Limits to Combat Data Scraping

Twitter restricts users to reading between 300 and 6,000 posts per day depending on their account status. The sudden limits cause widespread outages and broken feeds across the social network.

21 Jun 2026 1 min read

Reddit Users Stage Massive Blackout Over Costly API Changes

Thousands of Reddit communities are going dark to protest new API fees that threaten third-party apps and moderation tools. CEO Steve Huffman faces intense backlash as users and developers push back against the platform's shifting policies.

21 Jun 2026 1 min read

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ChatGPT Breaks Records as Fastest App to Reach 100 Million Users

UBS analysts report that ChatGPT is on track to hit 100 million monthly active users in just two months, outpacing TikTok and Instagram. The rapid growth prompts massive investments from Microsoft and poses new strategic challenges for Google.

20 Jun 2026

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Elon Musk Launches Public Feud With Apple Over Ads and App Store Access

Elon Musk publicly attacks Apple for cutting advertising spending and threatening to remove Twitter from the App Store. The conflict jeopardizes a vital revenue stream and access to over a billion mobile devices.

20 Jun 2026 1 min read

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Elon Musk Abruptly Declines Twitter Board Seat

Elon Musk officially declines to join Twitter's board of directors, leaving his future plans and stake in the company unclear. The surprise decision removes restrictions on how much of the social media platform he can own.

20 Jun 2026 1 min read

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Zuckerberg Testimony Exposes Congressional Confusion Over Facebook Operations

Mark Zuckerberg tells Congress that social media regulation is inevitable, but two days of hearings reveal a striking lack of understanding about how Facebook actually works. The unfocused questioning ultimately helps Zuckerberg recover billions in lost market value.

19 Jun 2026 1 min read

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#DeleteFacebook Movement Grows After Massive Data Harvesting Scandal

Social media users are abandoning Facebook in droves using the #DeleteFacebook hashtag after revelations that a data firm harvested personal information from 50 million people. The backlash intensifies as even WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton publicly joins the protest.

19 Jun 2026 1 min read

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Millions of Facebook Users Impacted by Massive Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

A British consulting firm harvests personal data from up to 87 million Facebook users without consent to build psychological profiles for political advertising.

19 Jun 2026 1 min read

Reddit Bans Deepfakes Community Amid Wider Platform Policy Update

Reddit officially bans the popular r/deepfakes subreddit and updates its site-wide policies to explicitly prohibit involuntary pornography. The social network takes this step alongside other major tech companies cracking down on AI-generated fake videos.

19 Jun 2026 1 min read

Meta Confirms It Scrapes All Public Facebook and Instagram Posts for AI Training

Meta's global privacy director admits the company scrapes all public posts from Facebook and Instagram since 2007 to train its AI models, unless users manually set their content to private.

19 Jun 2026 1 min read

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Lawmakers Demand AI Regulation After Musk Shares Fake Harris Video

Elon Musk faces intense criticism for sharing a deepfake video of Vice President Kamala Harris that receives over 132 million views on X. The incident prompts California lawmakers to push for urgent legislation requiring social media platforms to label or block deceptive AI content during elections.

19 Jun 2026 1 min read

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xAI Unveils Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini with Native Image Generation

Elon Musk's xAI introduces Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini, featuring powerful image generation tools and benchmark scores that rival top industry models. Both chatbots are currently available on the X platform, with an enterprise API release planned for later this month.

19 Jun 2026 1 min read

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