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Surgeon General Wants Warning Labels on Social Media
WhatsApp Calling Updates
WhatsApp Adds New Calling Updates Like Screen Sharing
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Study: People Get More of Their News From Social Media
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Threads Fact Checking Now Separate From Instagram and Facebook
Instagram stickers for Stories
Instagram Offers New Stickers for Your Stories
The Hidden Words feature on the Meta Threads apps.
Threads Now Lets You Automatically Filter Out Profanity
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Meta Employs New On-Device AI to Blur Nude Photos
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The US Government Probably Doesn't Want to Ban TikTok
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Instagram Now Allows Messages Editing, Promises Chat Pinning, and More Soon
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Bluesky Is Now Open to All, but Is It Too Late?
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Iconfactory's Powerful Timeline App Will Make Reading Content More Natural
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Now Teens Can Only Receive DMs From Connections on Facebook and Instagram
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Meta to Let Some People Choose How to Share Between Facebook and Instagram
TikTok on a tablet.
Now You Can Watch Your TikTok Videos on a Tablet
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Europe Gets Threads Without Instagram, but It's Limited
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BeReal Launches 4 New Features Including Tagging and Groups
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Now Your WhatsApp Voice Messages Will Be More Private
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Messenger Now Has Default End-to-End Encryption
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Now You Can Hide Your WhatsApp Chats Behind a Secret Code
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TikTok Launches New Effects for Sillier Selfie Videos
Sticker Anything on Instagram
Instagram Gets New Filters and a Bunch of Other Tools
Whatsapp Mac
New WhatsApp App for Mac Allows for Group Video Calls With 8 People
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Here's Why Meta's Threads Website Version Will Such Be a Big Deal
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Meta’s New Threads Web Interface Won't Send You to the Mobile App
Instagram Collab
Instagram Now Lets You Collaborate on Posts With Up to 3 People
Threads Update
Meta's Social App Threads Gets a New Beefy Update to Help Retain Users
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Even With Its New 'Following' Feed, Threads Isn't Going to Replace Twitter
The new X logo on Elon Musk's profile with the Twitter logo behind it.
Why Musk's Everything App Dream for Twitter X Is Flat Out Impossible
Threads
Threads Update Adds Following Tab, Now See Those You Care About
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TikTok Adds Text Posts for More Options to Share What You Want on Social Media
X Twitter
Twitter Rebrands to 'X' and Promises New 'Goods, Services, and Opportunities'
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How Discord's Parental Controls Can Keep Kids Safe
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Why Twitter Rival Threads Could Be the Next Great Social Media App
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Instagram Threads Is a Huge Hit! Here's Why That Should Worry You
Meta Threads
Meta's New Twitter Rival, Threads, Is Here to Soak Up Your Free Time
Facebook Messenger
Parents Gaining More Control Over How Teens Use Messenger and Instagram
Telegram Stories video screenshot
Stories Are Headed to Telegram, but With Their Own Kind of Twist
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Reddit Boycott Shows Why Users Love the Online Forums
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WhatsApp’s Channels Brings Social Media to the Popular Messaging App
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Meta Tests Verified Social Media Subscription in Canada
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WhatsApp Now Lets You Edit Messages for 15 Minutes After Sending Them
New GIF comments in Instagram
Instagram Teams up With Giphy for GIF Comments, Expands Reels Editing Tools
WhatsApp Chat Lock.
WhatsApp Adds Chat Lock, Makes It Harder for Others to See Your Chats
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Twitter Verification Is Getting Weird—Here's Why It's Going So Wrong
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Is Montana’s Crazed TikTok Ban a Total Waste of Time? Probably
Substack Notes
Could Substack’s Notes Be a Great Twitter Alternative? Sure It Could
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You Can Now Pay Meta to Verify Your Facebook and Instagram Account
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How Meta's New Project P92 Could Deliver the Killing Blow to Twitter
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Koo's Microblogging Platform Uses ChatGPT to Create the Perfect Post
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Why TikTok's New Bold Glamour AI Filter Is Scary for Everyone
TikTok Parental Controls
TikTok Launches Robust New Parental Controls to Limit Screen Time for Kids
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Why WhatsApp Private Newsletters Might Be Totally Genius
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Facebook’s New Penalty System Is Less Harsh but More Informative
Snapchat Sync
Snapchat Adds a Bunch of New Sounds to Its Creative Toolset
TikTok Trivia
TikTok Trivia Wants to Buy Your Love With $500K in Prizes
A smartphone laying on a wood surface with the Mastodon app displayed on the screen and notebook with the Twitter logo sitting nearby.
Why Mastodon Apps Should Stop Trying to Copy Twitter
TikTok Moderation
TikTok Has a New Plan to Swiftly Remove Repeat Offenders
Two smartphones laying perpendicular on a wood surface, one displaying the Mastodon logo and the other displaying the app.
Twitter May Soon Be Irrelevant, Thanks to a Mastodon Version of Tweetbot
Facebook Messenger Chats
Encrypted Messenger Chats Get Several Fun New Themes, Emojis, and More
Someone holding a smartphone showing inaccessible third-party Twitter app messages.
Why Twitter’s Third-Party App Ban Is Terrible for Users