22 Unhinged (but Fake) App Features
Image: Soren Iverson At the tail end of 2022, screenshots of bizarre app features started going viral on Twitter. They rested just on the line between plausible and absurd. Google…
The FTC Is Trying to Ban Meta From Using Kids’ Data
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a “blanket prohibition” that would ban Meta from monetizing children’s data Wednesday. The FTC says Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—failed to comply with an…
Whoops! YouTube Shares Profits With Climate Liars Two Years After It Promised to Stop
People like to tell lies about climate change on YouTube. That’s bad enough, but worse is the fact that Google makes money by running ads for major brands against those…
Social Media Scatters Your Brain, and Then You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need
Image: 1st footage (Shutterstock) Instagram is Testing Adding Songs to Your Profile Off English Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be…
Meta Layoffs Begin and Even the Game Developers Aren’t Safe
Meta has once again taken up the scythe and struck a wide swathe of staff from its field of developers. The first in what’s expected to be a total of…
Instagram finally lets you add multiple links to bio
Instagram has finally relented and now offers a simple way to add multiple links to your profile. Before now, you could only have one link in your profile, but on…
Instagram Finally Lets You Post Multiple In-Bio Links
Instagram has caved to years of creator demands. The social platform will now let users include links to multiple external sites directly in their in-app profiles, as reported by multiple…
The National Guard Plans to Geofence High Schools and Target Kids’ Phones With Recruitment Ads
Teens love their screens, and the Department of Defense is prepared to take advantage of that. The Georgia Army National Guard has big plans to boost its recruitment efforts through…
Substack’s CEO Would Rather Not Think About the Racist Stuff. Okay?
Substack, best known as a subscription newsletter platform, just launched a copycat Twitter competitor called Substack Notes. Elon Musk wasn’t pleased and apparently took a number of steps to block…
Instagram Founders’ News App Artifact Adds ‘Reputation Scores’ and Comments
Image: Courtesy of Artifact Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram’s co-founders, has added comments and discussion on articles, marking the first public social components of the new…