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UK Announces Social Media Ban for Users Under 16
The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms, including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X.
Meta's New AI Mode on Facebook: Enhancing User Engagement
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.
Threads Enhances Personalization with New AI Features for 500M Users
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds
Australia Leads Global Ban on Social Media for Children
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
Meta's Edits App Gains AI Assistant and Desktop Version
By integrating an AI assistant directly into Edits, Meta is aiming to keep creators engaged on Instagram as it continues to compete with TikTok and YouTube for creators' attention.
Bluesky Introduces Group Chats, Boosting Community Features
Bluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.
Next-Gen Social Apps Beyond Instagram: AI-Driven Alternatives
These newer social apps offer alternatives to Big Tech’s feeds, focusing on interests, creativity, and community.
Cash App's Tap-and-Pay Wand: Magic Meets Payment
Digital wallet app Cash App is launching a new gadget on Thursday, seemingly inspired by the social media trend that involves paying for items in the real world with a tap of a homemade magic wand, which hides a tap-and-pay credit card.
Meta's New AI Assistant Simplifies Creator Insights on Facebook
Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like "When should I post?" and "What are people saying in my comments?"
Last30Days Skill: AI Research Across Top Platforms
AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary
AI Tool: Panniantong/Agent-Reach for Web Scraping
Give your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet. Read & search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu — one CLI, zero API fees.
TikTok Pro Events: Enhance FIFA World Cup Experience
The app allows users to engage with other fans, explore trending videos, and access curated creator feeds.
Meta AI Support Chatbot Exploited in Instagram Account Hacks
Several users on social media reported having their Instagram accounts hacked over the weekend. Meta's own support chatbot was blamed for allowing hackers to hijack accounts.
TikTok's Push to Become a Super App
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
Automate Social Media Video Uploads with Dreammis Tool
自动化上传视频到社交媒体：抖音、小红书、视频号、tiktok、youtube、bilibili
Meta Unveils Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Subscriptions with AI P
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
TryPost: Open-Source Social Media Scheduler
Discover TryPost: The Open Source Social Media Scheduler In the dynamic world of social media management, efficiency and organization are paramount. TryPost, an…
Meta Launches New Reddit-Like App: Forum
The company describes the app as a "dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about."
Instagram's New 'Instants' Feature: Snapchat and BeReal Mashup
The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their close friends or mutual followers that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours.
TikTok Expands to Book Travel Directly from Videos
TikTok is systematically converting its discovery engine into a transaction layer, which both deepens user retention and opens entirely new revenue streams for its new owners.
Indigo Unifies Open Social Web in New AI-Powered App
Indigo's new social app lets you cross-post to the open social web, including Mastodon and Bluesky, and browse a unified timeline.
Discover AI Tool: TikTok for Scientific Papers
Discover the AI Tool: TikTok for Scientific Papers In the ever evolving landscape of scientific research, staying updated with the latest studies and findings c…
AI Tool: Optimize Image Sizes for Social Media
Optimize Image Sizes for Social Media with an AI Tool In the fast paced world of social media, ensuring that your images are perfectly sized and optimized is cr…
Deepfakes: The Attention Budget Threat and Response Strategies
A framing I keep coming back to: a synthetic image or video can succeed even when almost nobody believes it. Not because it changes minds directly, but because it turns attention into the attacked resource. If a campaign, newsroom, platform, or company has to stop and answer the fake, the fake already got some of what it wanted: - the defenders spend scarce time verifying and explaining - the audience gets forced to process the claim anyway - every debunk risks replaying the artifact - institutions look reactive even when they are correct - the attacker learns which themes reliably pull defenders into the loop So detection is necessary, but not sufficient. The second half of the system is distribution response. A few practical design questions I think matter more than the usual “can we detect it?” debate: - Can we debunk without embedding, quoting, or rewarding the fake? - Can provenance signals move suspicious media into slower lanes instead of binary takedown/leave-up decisions? - Do newsrooms and platforms track attention budget as an operational constraint? - Can response teams separate “this is false” from “this deserves broad amplification”? - Can systems preserve evidence for verification while reducing replay value for the attacker? The failure mode is treating every fake as an information accuracy problem when some of them are closer to denial-of-service attacks on attention. Curious how people here would design the response layer. What should a healthy “quarantine lane” for synthetic media look like without becoming censorship-by-default?
Instagram's New AI Tool Targets Content Aggregators
The update targets content aggregators that don't post original content and instead simply re-upload others' posts.
TikTok Launches Campus Hub for College Students
The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while they’re away for the summer.
Gro v2: AI Tool for Turning Social Posts into Sales Pipeline
Spot signals, trigger outreach - turn posts into pipeline
AI Tool: Maigret Collects Dossiers by Username from 3000+ Sites
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites
Social Fetch: Real-Time Social Data via API
Pull real-time data from any social platform via API.
2025: Social Media Scams Cost Consumers $2.1B, FTC Finds
The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold and that social media scams resulted in higher losses than any other method scammers used to contact consumers.
Letterboxd Seeks New Owner: Potential Buyers Emerge
Potential buyers of Letterboxd include Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, and Hollywood media company The Ankler, according to Semafor.