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People are leaving big platforms for smaller online circles. It's the start of a new, healthier era of social media.
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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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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.

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Meta is intentionally limiting search results on Threads for keywords related to the covid-19 virus and a variety of other potentially controversial topics.

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Threads
Threads amassed 100 million users in a week after launching in July.
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X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has apparently shadowbanned The New York Times, preventing users from seeing tweets that link to the newspaper’s coverage. The move smacks of a particular irony, given that the Times is one of X’s major advertisers and is currently running campaigns to promote its new sports…

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A white text bubble set against a brown background chomps a row of apps that are being threatened by groupchats from right to left--Be Real, Instagram and TikTok.
As people have run into the consequences of constant sharing, social media has become less social — and users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats.
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The Threads app
Threads is the latest Meta app to launch.
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A mugshot of Donald Trump taken at the Fulton County Sheriff's Office on August 24, 2023.
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Twitter owner Elon Musk seems to think his site would look a lot better without any helpful, descriptive headlines that describe users’ posted links. This is also the man who still thinks that dull “X” logo represents his new brand, so that’s not saying much about Musk’s overall aesthetic taste.

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