Instagram and Facebook Are Using Fears of a TikTok Ban to Poach Influencers
If you can’t beat ‘em, copy ‘em Dahan told Gizmodo’s that Meta’s news strategy of sharing ad revenues for reels looks an awful lot like Meta’s previous decision to copy…
‘Our Free Will Is Being Taken’: Montana TikTokers Caught in Legal Limbo After State’s Unprecedented Ban
When Spencre McGowan, an herbalist and a cookbook writer in Butte, Montana, started posting on TikTok to help pull herself out of a “depressive funk” in 2021, she could have…
The Utah and Arkansas Social Media Bans Won’t Protect Us
This week, Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders signed into law a bill that requires parents or guardians to grant permission for their child to have a social media account. Last month,…
Adobe’s Finally Looking Out for Dads With Lightroom Updates That Can Automatically Darken Graying Beards
Gif: Adobe Portrait photographers can spend hours perfecting a single headshot in Adobe’s apps—everything from erasing skin imperfections to making the subject look much younger than they really are. Some…
Investigation Finds YouTube Served New Teen User Almost 30 Andrew Tate Videos in Less Than 2 Hours
After signing up to YouTube as a new, 13-year-old user, Sky News found that YouTube flooded the feed with Andrew Tate videos, despite the professional misogynist being banned from the…
7 Other Times the U.S. Stupidly Tried to Ban TikTok
Photo: Samuel Corum (AP) U.S. government efforts to ban TikTok over national security grounds, once considered a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream, are looking more and more likely by the week, especially…
Why TikTok Needed to Pay for Influencers to Attend Anti-Ban Rally
A fiery coalition of more than two dozen TikTok content creators gathered outside the steps of the nation’s capitol Wednesday to fiercely oppose growing lawmaker calls for a nationwide ban.…
Underage Posters Get a Legal Bedtime as Utah Bans Social Media After 10:30 PM
Utah passed a pair of laws on Thursday laying out groundbreaking rules for children and social media. The laws require social media companies to verify users’ ages, obtain parental consent…
Congress Browbeats TikTok’s CEO in Brutal 5-Hour Hearing
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in a combative hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday. As expected, Congress ran Chew through the gauntlet, but the hearing included…
Adobe Says Its New ‘Firefly’ AI Image Generator Doesn’t Steal Other People’s Art
On Tuesday, Adobe introduced its own generative AI model family called Firefly, claiming—like young people tend to do in the throes of pubescence—it’s not like the other scrappy AI image…