twitter 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.
reddit 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.
chatgpt 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.
elon musk 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.
elon musk 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.
facebook 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.
facebook #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.
facebook 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.
reddit 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.
meta 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.
elon musk 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.
xai 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.
kamala harris Deep-Fake Video Falsely Portrays Kamala Harris as Incoherent A fabricated video circulating online shows Vice President Kamala Harris delivering a nonsensical speech about the nature of time, but fact-checkers confirm the footage is a deepfake.
marketing New Guide Helps Marketers Spot Counterfeit Culture in Comment Sections A new guide from Cyabra and VaynerX exposes how fake interactions distort marketing insights. It offers a data-backed framework to identify inauthentic behavior and measure real engagement.
tiktok Congress Approves TikTok Ban, But Legal Battles Delay Immediate Impact Congress passes a bill forcing TikTok's parent company to sell the app or face a U.S. ban, but legal challenges are expected to delay enforcement for years. President Biden signs the legislation into law as the company prepares for a lengthy court battle.