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X’s Premium+ Subscription Gets a Price Hike

Matt Milano - December 24, 2024

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Meta Is Testing Metrics for Individual Posts on Threads

Matt Milano - December 12, 2024

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Judge Denies TikTok Appeal of US Ban

Matt Milano - December 10, 2024

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Telegram Joins Internet Watch Foundation to Fight CSAM

Matt Milano - December 6, 2024

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Boston Globe’s Bluesky Traffic Dwarfs Threads

Matt Milano - December 1, 2024

Reddit Is Experiencing An Outage

Reddit appeared to suffer an outage Wednesday afternoon, with the site throwing an error when visiting virtually any subreddit....

TikTok CEO: ‘We Are Doing Everything in Our Power to Become Trusted’

In a world increasingly skeptical of social media platforms, TikTok is on a mission to prove that it can be trusted. Speaking at the...

Bluesky Closes In On 17 Million Users

Bluesky's growth streak has continued to accelerate, with the social media platform now having nearly 17 million users....

Meta Lowering the Cost of Ad-Free Plans in Europe

Meta announced a price reduction for Facebook and Instagram ad-free accounts in Europe, in an attempt to appease EU regulators....

Canada Orders TikTok to Shut Down In-Country Offices

Canada is cracking down on TikTok, ordering the company to shut down its offices within the country over national security concerns....

X Is Raising Its Developer API By As Much As Double

X, then Twitter, began charging developers for API access in February 2023, and has now announced a major price increase....

Reddit Turns Its First-Ever Profit

Reddit reported its third-quarter earnings, revealing that it turned a profit for the first time in its 19-year history....

Instagram Throttles Video Quality for Less Popular Videos

Instagram users finally have an explanation for the discrepancy in the quality between some videos, with the platform throttling less popular ones....

Ireland Fines LinkedIn $300 Million for Breaching GDPR Data Processing Rules

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced it is fining LinkedIn €310 million, or more than $300 million, for how it processed user data....

Bug Caused Some LinkedIn Accounts to Lose Followers

LinkedIn has revealed that a bug was responsible for some users losing connections and accounts, saying the bug has now been resolved....

Meta Suspends Accounts That Track Public Figures’ Jets

Meta is cracking down on accounts that track the jets of public figures, suspending a slew of those accounts....

Meta and Business Leaders Warn EU: Fragmented Regulations Risk Leaving Europe Behind in the Global AI Revolution

In a bold, unified message to European policymakers, Meta, Spotify, Ericsson, and other prominent business leaders issued an open letter warning that the European Union's fragmente...

X Is Back in Brazil in Major Loss for Free Speech

X is once again operational in Brazil, with users able to catch up on the news, watch cat videos, and engage in discourse on the platform—all for a steep p...

TikTok Music Is Shutting Down

ByteDance has informed users it is killing off the TikTok Music service, with November 28, 2024 slated as the shutdown date....

X Block Button Will No Longer Block Users

X is making a major change to how the block functionality works, with the block button no longer blocking a user from seeing an account's post....

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