#Social Media

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• 🇺🇸 PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will probably get an Instagram notification about it.

  Related: #Privacy, #Technology Ethics
• 🇺🇸 AI Podcasters Really Want to Tell You How to Keep a Man Happy — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Videos of fake relationship guru podcasters are reinforcing gender tropes and racking up millions of views, all the while driving sales to AI influencer schools.

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Digital Ethics, #Misinformation
• 🇺🇸 Michael J. Fox reacts to erroneous report of his death — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Michael J. Fox reacts to erroneous report of his death

  Related: #Celebrity News, #Misinformation
• 🇺🇸 The Jump Rope Queen of Beverly Hills — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Annie Judis, 82, gets a kick out of defying expectations about what the body can do.

  Related: #Aging, #Fitness
• 🇺🇸 EFF is the latest organization to leave X — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The EFF follows the departure of various news organizations and others, who no longer find X a viable source of traffic.

  Related: #Digital Advocacy, #Platform Migration
• 🇺🇸 Instagram now lets you edit your own comments — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  If you make a mistake in an Instagram comment, you can now finally fix it without having to delete the comment and make it again. On Thursday, Instagram announced that users can now edit their comment...

  Related: #Product Update, #User Experience
• 🇺🇸 You can now edit your Instagram comments — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Instagram users can now edit comments, which is a long-awaited fix for anyone who’s ever had to delete and re-post a comment just to fix a typo.

  Related: #Product Update, #User Experience
• 🇺🇸 X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  X Chat brings back Voice Notes to DMs and group chats after removing the option during the upgrade.

  Related: #Technology, #Product Development
• 🇺🇸 On Social Media, Democratic Politicians Are Letting the F-Word Fly — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  In person, on social media and in campaign ads, Democratic politicians are swearing with glee. It is usually aimed at President Trump.

  Related: #Political Communication, #Campaign Strategy
• 🇺🇸 13-year-old girl captures terrifying moment Israel bombed Beirut — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A 13-year-old girl on Snapchat captured the moment Israel began its assault on Beirut.

  Related: #War Journalism, #Civilian Impact
• 🇺🇸 OpenAI Full Fan Mode Contest: Terms & Conditions — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Explore the official terms and conditions for the OpenAI Full Fan Mode Contest, including eligibility, entry steps, judging criteria, and prize details. Learn how to participate, submit your entry on ...

  Related: #Marketing, #Technology Promotion
• 🇺🇸 White House Knew About Pakistan’s Cease-Fire Post on X Before It Was Sent — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Pakistan’s prime minister posted a public plea on X for President Trump to extend his Tuesday evening deadline for Iran. The White House was directly involved in shaping the message.

  Related: #Diplomacy, #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 Swalwell campaign denies 'outrageous' claims of inappropriate behavior — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) campaign for governor of California has denied claims circulating on social media that multiple women plan to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against...

  Related: #Political Campaigns, #Allegations
• 🇺🇸 On Truth Social, Trump Supporters Fume About Iran War — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  A growing chorus of disaffected Trump supporters is sounding off in the replies to his posts on the social media platform he founded.

  Related: #Political Division, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader — 02/04/2026 [USA]

  Surf is a slightly hard app to explain. It's sort of three things: a client for fediverse apps like Bluesky and Mastodon; a feed reader that lets you subscribe to almost any website, podcast, or YouTu...

  Related: #Feed Reader, #Fediverse
• 🇺🇸 Snapchat’s ‘Reals’ joke mocks Instagram’s many ripoffs — 01/04/2026 [USA]

  It's April Fools' Day, and Snap is using the occasion to "announce" that it's switching the name of Snapchat's Spotlight feed, the app's Instagram Reels-like feed of shortform vertical videos, to "Rea...

  Related: #April Fools
• 🇺🇸 Instagram tests letting you pay to view stories anonymously — 31/03/2026 [USA]

  Meta is testing an Instagram subscription that offers a bunch of new perks, such as the ability to view stories without the poster knowing, according to a report from TechCrunch. The paid plan will al...

  Related: #Subscription Model
• 🇺🇸 Bluesky’s new app is an AI for customizing your feed — 29/03/2026 [USA]

  The latest app from the team behind Bluesky is Attie, an AI assistant that lets you build your own algorithm. At the Atmosphere conference, Bluesky's former CEO, Jay Graber, and CTO Paul Frazee, unvei...

  Related: #AI Technology, #Open Source Development
• 🇬🇧 Grisly or just country life? The mole photos dividing social media — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A hill walker shares a snap of moles hanging on barbed wire and is surprised by the huge response.

  Related: #Farming, #Wildlife
• 🇬🇧 Trump posts Saturday Night Live UK sketch that shows Starmer terrified of him — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Donald Trump has posted on social media a sketch from Saturday Night Live UK poking fun at himself and Sir Keir Starmer.

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇺🇸 It’s been 20 years since the first tweet — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”.

  Related: #Anniversary
• 🇺🇸 Fidel Castro’s Grandson Flaunts Beer, Nikes and Trump Jokes on Instagram — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Sandro Castro has drawn scrutiny for his Instagram posts in which he flaunts a life of luxury while using satire to point out the very deterioration his family’s leadership helped create.

  Related: #Political Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Large-Scale Analysis of Political Propaganda on Moltbook — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.18349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an NLP-based study of political propaganda on Moltbook, a Reddit-style platform for AI agents. To enable large-scale analysis, we develop LL...

  Related: #Propaganda Analysis
• 🇺🇸 Tubi Inks Creator Development Deal With TikTok — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The social video platform will help the Fox-owned streamer select a cohort of creators, giving them a pathway to develop longer-form content.

  Related: #Streaming, #Partnerships
• 🇺🇸 The Wealthy House Candidate With a History of Bawdy Facebook Posts — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The social media habits of Peter Chatzky, a tech executive who is running to unseat Representative Mike Lawler in New York, show a penchant for crude jokes.

  Related: #Political Scandal
• 🇬🇧 Instagram worse for mental health than WhatsApp, global study finds — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>World Happiness Report finds platforms focused on connection less harmful than algorithm-driven apps</p><p>Social media apps such as Instagram and TikTok, which encourage algorithm-driven scrolling...

  Related: #Mental Health
• 🇺🇸 Sam Altman’s thank-you to coders draws the memes — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

  Related: #Tech Culture
• 🇺🇸 Jury deliberations continue for 4th day in social media addiction trial — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Jury deliberations for a landmark social media addiction trial in California entered a fourth day Wednesday. CBS News' Elaine Quijano has the latest.

  Related: #Legal Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Facebook launches a new monetization program to attract popular creators from TikTok, YouTube — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Facebook says it paid creators nearly $3 billion through its monetization programs in 2025, a 35% increase from the previous year and its highest annual total to date.

  Related: #Monetization, #Competition
• 🇺🇸 ‘Basic’ Review: Ashley Park Obsesses Over Leighton Meester In Chelsea Devantez’s Hilariously Relatable Social Media Comedy — SXSW — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  In the age of social media obsessions and waning monogamy, Basic is a ridiculously relatable laugh riot. Written and directed by Chelsea Devantez, based on her 2020 SXSW short, Gloria (Ashley Park) fa...

  Related: #Comedy