Google Says AI-Generated Political Ads Must Include Clear Disclaimers
Image: Iulia.Leonte (Shutterstock) As we officially enter a new age of political smear campaigns created via AI, Google is trying to keep the record clean. The tech titan is now…
Facebook Supreme Court Says Posts About Abortion Are Not Death Threats
In March 2022, Meta removed a pair of posts on Facebook and Instagram criticizing a proposed South Carolina bill that would have horrifyingly applied homicide penalties to abortion seekers. One…
Meta Reportedly Looking to Give Europeans an Ad-Free Option on Its Platforms
Meta is a multi-headed behemoth of a tech company, but for all its hungry maws, it is also somewhat predictable. Give it a problem like new regulations that will force…
Meta’s Supreme Court Is Investigating a Nazi Squidward Meme on Instagram
Meta’s Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-like entity tasked with reviewing Facebook and Instagram’s most contentious content moderation conundrums, is taking on a case involving a bizarre and unpleasant mashup: a…
A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI
Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its…
Facebook Userbase Is Apparently Unbothered by Canadian News Ban
Image: Pan Xunbin (Shutterstock) Meta’s decision to block news in Canada has seemingly been met with a shrug by its user base. Data shows that Facebook’s users have remained steady even…
Meta Discovers Its Biggest Misinfo Campaign Yet
Meta says it has identified and removed more than 7,700 shady accounts and 990 pages on Facebook linked to Chinese law enforcement in what the company is calling the “largest…
Instagram’s Adding a Chronological Feed for Stories and Reels in Europe
Meta announced it is implementing new “transparency measures” on Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday in response to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires Meta to comply by…
How to Export All Your Photos and Videos Out of Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Messenger
You’ve probably got a ton of photos and videos in your social media and messaging apps at this point—pictures of sunsets posted to Instagram, pictures of the kids posted to…
Threads Gets a Couple More Twitter-Like Features
Image: sdx15 (Shutterstock) Threads is desperately trying to stay relevant by announcing a small update on Thursday to include a repost tab feature to the app. The newest tweaks come…