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As the cold war between Elon Musk’s Twitter (recently rebranded as X) and Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads rages on, the latter is preparing to launch a new offensive. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that Threads was finally getting a bona fide browser version.

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An illustration of Meta's Threads app
An illustration of Meta's Threads app
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You’ve probably got a ton of photos and videos in your social media and messaging apps at this point—pictures of sunsets posted to Instagram, pictures of the kids posted to family WhatsApp groups, and so on—but you might not necessarily have those pictures and videos saved anywhere else.

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  • Setting up Meta Pay (formerly called Facebook Pay) streamlines payments across Meta-owned platforms.
  • Once you link a payment method, you can donate, make purchases, or send money within Meta apps. 
  • Meta Pay utilizes anti-fraud technology and advanced encryption to keep payment information secure. 

When purchasing items, sending money, or donating to charitable causes on Meta platforms like Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, there's a simple and easy way to do it quickly and securely: Meta Pay (formerly called Fac

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Threads is desperately trying to stay relevant by announcing a small update on Thursday to include a repost tab feature to the app. The newest tweaks come as the number of daily active users decreased by 80% since the app launched in July.

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Tron: Ares director Joachim Rønning has confirmed that the expected production start on the Disney sequel will no longer go ahead this week due to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, blaming an “extremely frustrating” l

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Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill entitling young social media influencers to a percentage of earnings for monetized videos they appear in. The law, which could accelerate interest for similar legislation in other states, marks one of the first known examples of…

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Capitalism may breed innovation, but Instagram is no stranger to ripping off TikTok. The social network’s newest feature is a rotating carousel of images set to music, delightfully similar to TikTok’s own.

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New academic research analyzing Facebook’s adoption across 72 different countries is trying to challenge the common claim that social media is to blame for negative mental health outcomes. Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) said they found “no evidence” that increased Facebook penetration worldwide…

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Gen Z is online all the time, but they're getting more selective about which apps they use to share their content.