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The United States Supreme Court has dealt a blow to TikTok, upholding a previous ruling banning the app over privacy and national security concerns....

Meta to Make ‘Performance-Based Cuts’ Impacting 5% of Staff

Meta is making a change to how it deals with low-performing employees, accelerating their exit from the company, with approximately 3,600 impacted....

Meta Does An About-Face As It Switches to Community Moderation

In an apparent bid to avoid the ire of President-elect Trump, Meta has announced it will end its fact checking program and rely on a Community Notes model....

Trump Asks SCOTUS to Delay TickTok Ban

President-elect Donald Trump has apparently reversed course on TikTok, asking the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to delay enforcing a ban so he can "negotiate a...

Elon Musk Wants to Put the Genie Back In the Bottle, Asks X Users to Be Nice

X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk apparently wants to wind back the clock, returning the platform to what it was before he bought: a place for people to...

X’s Premium+ Subscription Gets a Price Hike

X (formerly Twitter) has raised the price of its Premium+ subscription, going from $16 per month to $22 per month....

Meta Is Testing Metrics for Individual Posts on Threads

Meta is testing changes and improvements to Insights on Threads, giving users the ability to measure metrics for individual posts....

Judge Denies TikTok Appeal of US Ban

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has denied an appeal by TikTok, upholding a ban that will go into effect in January....

Telegram Joins Internet Watch Foundation to Fight CSAM

Telegram is finally taking steps to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM), joining the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)....

Boston Globe’s Bluesky Traffic Dwarfs Threads

Threads may have orders of magnitude more users than Bluesky, but the latter accounts for far more traffic to The Boston Globe than Meta's platfor...

Meta Tackling Organized Crime ‘Pig Butchering’ Scam

Meta is tackling "pig butchering," a colorful name for a type of scam being perpetrated by organized crime groups around the world....

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....

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