Social Media

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has instructed Meta to let go of GIPHY, the animated GIF platform which the company acquired in May of last year. Upon its...

Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey has announced his resignation from the company's top post. He has had one role or another for almost 16 years at Twitter since it...

Australia plans to introduce a new law that will make social media platforms reveal the identity of users who post defamatory comments. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the online...

Russia has ordered 13 foreign tech companies to officially have local representatives in the country by the end of 2021. State communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Monday that if the...

It appears that Meta will be delaying its rollout of its full-fledged end-to-end encryption (e2ee) system to both Messenger and Instagram later than it originally planned. Meta safety head Antigone...

Disney has announced that it wants a bite of the virtual reality pie and plans to have a Disney metaverse. CEO Bob Chapek said that the company is preparing to...

Twitter has announced that it's launching a new division for “all things blockchain at Twitter,” called Twitter Crypto. The head of the division is Tess Rinearson, who has led engineering teams at cryptocurrency...

Telegram will soon be rolling out paid subscriptions for users who don't like seeing ads. Last week, the popular messaging platform announced that it will be displaying sponsored messages on...

Facebook is expanding the Subscriptions feature by adding a new way for creators to get around Apple's App Store fees. Utilizing its in-house payment method Facebook Pay, the social media...

Facebook will be shutting down its Face Recognition system, according to parent company Meta. While you can still manually tag people in photos, Facebook won't recommend individuals to tag anymore....

A new report by the Financial Times estimates that Apple's change in privacy policy earlier this year, called App Tracking Transparency (ATT), has caused major social media platforms Snap, Facebook, Twitter,...

Twitter has launched Labs, a scheme that lets users try out some of the beta features that it is still testing out. The only catch is, Labs is only accessible...