‘Photoshopped’ royal photo causes a stir
[UPDATE: In a message posted on social media on Monday morning, Princess Kate said that she herself edited the image, and apologized for the fuss that the picture had caused.…
TikTok could be banned – What a US ban would mean and how would it work
It’s been almost exactly a year since the last significant threat of a TikTok ban in the US. This time, a bill to ban the popular social media app on…
TikTok Users Overwhelm Congress With Push to Stop Possible U.S. Ban
TikTok sent a push notification to United States users on Thursday morning asking them to call their local representative to “Stop a TikTok shutdown.” The app refers to a bipartisan…
LinkedIn Back Up After Widespread Outage in Several Countries
Update, 5:50 p.m. ET: LinkedIn appears to be back up globally, though it’s still not clear what caused the outage. Russian Court Says Meta Is “Extremist Organization” Off English It’s…
The Greatest App of All Time Day 6: YouTube vs. Words With Friends
It’s day 6 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and things are heating up. Thus far in the competition, we’ve had some…
Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger all got hit by a big outage – but they’re back up again
Refresh 2024-03-05T17:30:36.888Z Well until we hear something from Meta, I think it’s time to put a halt of this live blog. It looks like everything is basically up and running…
The Greatest App of All Time Day 5: Snapchat vs. Vine
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Flappy Bird punched above its weight in yesterday’s contest but ultimately folded and with…
Facebook, Instagram Coming Back Online, White House Monitoring the Major Outage
Facebook and Instagram appears to be coming back online as of 12:30 p.m. ET after a nationwide outage. Roughly 580,000 Facebook users and 92,000 Instagram users experienced issues, according to…
How to Prevent X’s Audio and Video Calls Feature From Revealing Your IP Address
X owner Elon Musk is dreaming of a world where people ditch their cell phones and instead make audio and video calls on the social media platform. Musk’s vision has…
X has a new audio and video calling feature – and it’s a huge privacy blunder
X’s (formerly Twitter) new phone and video call feature may be one of the biggest social media privacy and security blunders I’ve seen in a long time. Last week, X…