After Instagram made every short-form video post a Reel, the company is looking for ways to make them easier to share. Instagram is now playing with a new feature that lets you view a list of Reels you recently shared—just in case they were so good, you want to spread them around even more.
Social media services have generally been free of charge for users, but now, with ad revenues slowing down, social media companies are looking for new revenue streams beyond targeted ads.
Republican Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee Randy McNally has come under fire this week for liking social media posts of LGBTQ models and creators. Now, McNally is apologizing, not for Republicans’ increasing attacks on queer people, but for how he may have embarrassed his friends and family along the way.
Facebook and Instagram influencers are losing access to a big moneymaking program that was previously paying out thousands of dollars per vid. It was an effort to get more Instagram users interested in watching the social network’s short-form video format Reels.
While Twitter deals with daily chaos and mounting debt, its biggest competitors are thinking they can do tweet storms even better than the ol’ blue bird. On Friday, Meta confirmed that it was working on a new stand-alone app for sharing Twitter-like messages.
As the role of artificial intelligence appears to continue growing in our daily lives, it’s taking people’s likeness along with it. This week, hundreds of deepfaked videos featuring faces that looked exactly like Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson ran across Facebook and Instagram as part of an apparent advertising…
Most research on teen social media use has been conducted on white teens and college students.
A reporter says she was fired by her paper after calling the mayor of Dallas “bruh” on Twitter, a comment the news outlet claimed violated its social media policy.