You should probably stay away from the Instagram Wrapped app
Digital Trends I’ll keep it simple. Stay away from the Wrapped for Instagram trend. The app has been making rounds in the App Store’s top bracket for the past few…
No, TikTok (Probably) Isn’t Anti-Israel
Republican lawmakers pounding the well-worn TikTok ban drum are using flaming hot tensions over the conflict in Israel to try, once again, to knock the app offline. The new line…
Elon ‘Back to the Office’ Musk Called in Remotely to First X All-Hands
There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground. A year after Musk officially took over…
Threads Users Can Now Post Polls, GIFs
Image: AdriaVidal (Shutterstock) Threads’s chess match against X, formerly called Twitter, continues with the launch of its polls and GIF features on Thursday. The additions bring to Threads two staples…
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…
Instagram Apologizes for Putting ‘Terrorist’ In Palestinian Users’ Bios
Photo: Alexander Koerner (Getty Images) Instagram users reported last week that their bios including the word “Palestinian” and the Arabic phrase “Alhamdulillah”, which means “praise be to God”, were auto-translated…
Meta Plans to Grow Threads By Ramming Its Posts to Facebook
Image: Ascannio (Shutterstock) Threads was a unicorn in the vacuum left behind by a Musk-infested Twitter turned X. But as the excitement for the sterile and lifeless platform inevitably waned…
Threads ‘Temporarily’ Blocking Covid-Related Search Terms
Image: rafapress (Shutterstock) Threads search is blocking terms like “Covid,” “vaccines,” “long Covid,” and others, but it is reportedly only temporary according to Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri. This comes a…