Meta said it's been using your public Instagram photos and Facebook posts to train its AI

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Meta says it's been using Instagram photos and Facebook posts to train its new AI.

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Instagrammable laundry rooms are the latest luxury status symbol of rich millennials

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The hashtags #laundryroom and #utilitylaundryroom have over a billion views on TikTok.

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Meta: From Facebook to the Metaverse, Oculus and more, the company Mark Zuckerberg built

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Kids These Days Get 4,500 Notifications a Day and Hate Facebook, New Study Says

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The kids are not all right and are being subject to a firehouse of pinging in the thick of the Information Age. A new report reveals that children are getting upwards of 4,500 notifications a day and have some predictable favorite (and least favorite) apps.

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Teens spend nearly 2 hours a day on TikTok — and barely look at Facebook, a new study says. See how other apps stack up.

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Phones are constantly tempting teens to pick up, with more than half in a recent study getting 237 notifications a day.

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Facebook and Instagram's Canadian News Blackout Is Crushing Student Journalists

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In early August, college radio stations and student newspapers across Canada started noticing something odd. Station managers and editors saw big dips in visits to their websites, particularly by way of Facebook and Instagram. Rowan Grice, a 28-year-old station manager at the University of Victoria’s CFUV station,…

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How an OnlyFans creator has earned $450K using cosplay and personal connections with fans

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Facebook Now Allows Users to Link Separate Profiles

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Facebook users can now create multiple personal profiles with unique feeds and relevant content for each one, Meta announced in a press release on Thursday.

TikTok Fixes Missing ‘Filter Video Keywords' Safety Setting

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In July 2022, TikTok introduced a tool called Filter Video Keywords to let users block videos with words or hashtags they did not want to see.

How to use Instagram, the wildly popular photo-sharing app with more than a billion users

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The Instagram app on an Apple iPhone.

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