(Image credit: Getty Images / Anna Barclay) Ofcom has assessed the best ways of enforcing age checks online The regulator […]
Category: Social Media
Fake TikTok Shops now fuel one in five phishing blocks — and Black Friday could make it worse
Surfshark data shows blocks of a single suspected fake TikTok Shop domain rose 638% between May and September. The domain […]
Meta drops the word “train” from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
What would help—as University of Wisconsin law professor Benjamin Sobel told Nieman Lab—would be if Meta added specific language to […]
Think social media protects your data? Platforms have racked up $26 billion in privacy penalties since 2020
Social platforms have incurred over $26 billion in privacy fines and settlements globally since 2020. Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram) […]
Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
Likely in the next few weeks, a federal judge will decide if Donald Trump can become the first president to […]
Woman loses 20 years of ‘digital memories’ after Meta deletes her accounts
(Image credit: Getty Images) Meta closed a woman’s Facebook and Instagram accounts with no warning The closed accounts contained 20 […]
Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
Soon, Reddit won’t let people use Old.Reddit.com unless they have used the site while logged in within the previous six […]
Meta is finally letting its UK staff join a union — and it could spark a national surge in union membership
(Image credit: Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Meta reaches agreement to allow Prospect union access to […]
‘It’s a grand experiment’: Bluebird president on the Twitter revival platform that’s now called ‘Tweet’ — and why it won’t be using that blue bird
(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future) Twitter is not back, and we’ll surely never see the likes of it again. […]
Meta settles its alleged social media harm case for $18B and agrees to massive changes that may be almost impossible to enforce
(Image credit: Shutterstock / mundissima) Remember that massive lawsuit against Meta alleging that its products were designed to addict teens […]