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Katrina Kaif urged people to protect their self-worth from social-media criticism, saying that trying to satisfy every online opinion can undermine personal choices and leave people unable to move forward.
Instagram acknowledged on October 9 that its platform had been recommending Creed’s 1999 song “Higher” to more users than intended, and said it was continuing to investigate how the recommendations occurred.
Orkut Büyükkökten is asking internet users to support a petition for a new social network inspired by Orkut, but he has not confirmed that the original platform will return or announced a launch date.
Meta said it began blocking advertising from ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, on October 8 across Facebook and Instagram in seven countries, including the United States.
OpenAI said it banned Russian- and Iranian-linked ChatGPT accounts that supported influence operations, including a purported Latin American think tank and fake journalist personas used to spread political messaging.
New York’s unsealed lawsuit alleges TikTok repeatedly gave thousands of users, including children and teenagers, nonfunctional versions of a safety feature in 2023 while studying app use and advertising effects.
Meta says it is adding artificial intelligence tools to detect advertisements that appear harmless but may direct users to child sexual exploitation material hosted outside Facebook and Instagram.
Bluesky has applied to create the .bsky internet domain suffix, a move that could let users replace longer account handles with shorter addresses if the application is approved.
Chet Hanks and comedian Eric André exchanged words at ComplexCon in Los Angeles after Hanks approached André and touched his shoulder, reviving a public dispute that began in 2023.
The fathers of three friends of Nolan Wells have filed a federal defamation lawsuit against former NFL player Terrell Owens, alleging that his social media post calling for their arrest falsely linked them to serious...
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is promoting a petition she calls “Kenan’s Law,” urging changes to how social media platforms respond to repeated harassment reports, following the death of her former fiancé Ken Urker.
FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins announced their engagement in social media posts on Sunday, October 4.
Brooke Eby, an ALS advocate who chronicled her life with the disease on social media and built an online community for others affected by it, has died at 37, the ALS Network announced October 1.
Online conspiracy claims blaming Israel, Jews and Zionists for the Flydubai flight emergency began circulating within 67 minutes of the aircraft’s first distress signal, according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement’s...
Microsoft said unauthorized users gained access to its official X account and used it to promote a cryptocurrency token themed around Clippy, the company’s former Office assistant.
Instagram is adding an artificial intelligence assistant to its Edits video app, giving creators tailored suggestions based on their account performance, audience interests and trends on the platform.
Reddit plans to end support for RSS feeds on November 13 and further restrict access to its Old Reddit interface, saying the changes are intended to curb large-scale scraping and automated abuse.
Jeremy Clarkson has finished filming the sixth season of Clarkson’s Farm and says the series’ future beyond that remains undecided, as he considers a new television project he believes would need to be unusually ambit...
Mira Rajput appeared alongside Kareena Kapoor Khan on the set of the sixth season of What Women Want, with both sharing complimentary posts about their meeting as the episode awaited its premiere.
Elizabeth Holmes said she will mark future posts written in her own words with the initials “EAH,” distinguishing them from unsigned messages posted by the team managing her X account.
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