Google Caves, Agrees to Pay News Companies for Content in Canada
Google’s office in Kitchener, Ontario.Photo: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)
Android iMessage-Style Messaging App Sunbird Shuts Down Over Serious Privacy Concerns
Image: Sunbird This week brought a series of disasters (and quite some embarrassment) to Android messaging apps that were trying hard to break the infamous green-blue bubble barrier between Android…
How to delete or deactivate your Facebook account
Maybe you just need to take a break from using Facebook. Or maybe you haven’t used your Facebook account in awhile and don’t plan to in the future. Whatever your…
Tesla Investors Call for Elon Musk to Be Suspended, Apple Pulls Ads on X
Tesla shareholders condemned Elon Musk’s antisemitic behavior, on his own social media platform, X, and other media outlets Thursday. Some investors are publicly saying he should be suspended, according to…
Meta Officially Accepts Blood Money to Promote the Big Lie
Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can’t…
Google Sues Hackers Exploiting AI Hype With Alleged Bard Scams
Ads for fake versions of Google’s generative AI tool, Bard, are showing up on Facebook to steal social media accounts of U.S. small businesses, according to a lawsuit from Google…
WhatsApp used to be one of my favorite apps. Now, I can’t stand it
Tushar Mehta / Digital Trends For the best part of the last decade, WhatsApp has been my primary means to stay in touch with friends, family, peers at work, and…
33 States Sue Meta, Say It Knowingly Addicted Kids to Social Media
Photo: Zach Gibson (Getty Images) A bipartisan coalition of 33 state attorneys general sued Meta for allegedly designing and deploying harmful features on Instagram and Facebook that addicted a generation…
Riley Reid Is Spearheading an OnlyFans-Style AI Chatbot Company
Riley Reid is many things: adult film superstar, social media influencer, meme-lord, and now, buzzy tech founder. As part of her new venture, Clona.ai, Reid is helping develop AI-generated chatbots…
Meta Gets That You Hate Seeing Threads on Facebook, Instagram. End of Communication
Meta first embedded Threads carousels onto Instagram in August. Image: Adrian Tusar (Shutterstock) After shoving a Threads carousel into Facebook and Instagram, Meta gets that users might not like it. Meta…