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We’re only a month out since Meta released its Instagram-tied Twitter-killer app Threads. Since then, the time users spent on the app has tanked.

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Facebook users are down to their last month to sign up to receive a piece of Meta’s $725 million settlement for privacy violations. The company signed the settlement in December 2022 in response to a class action lawsuit filed by the Keller Rohrback law firm, for its role in sharing users’ data with Cambridge…

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Social media algorithms have been a point of contention for lawmakers and regulators for several years over concerns that users were being brainwashed by the flood of misinformation promoted on their feeds.

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Threads users are asking for new feature updates and it seems Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking their opinions into account. The app’s update will include a “Following” feed and “Translations” which will register the original language and translate it to the language settings of the user reading it, Meta announced on…

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Spotify announced on Monday that it’s raising the cost of the premium subscription in the U.S. for the first time in 12 years.

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Just how much copyright protection should an artist or photographer expect after they post their work on social media? It’s a murky legal question by itself that’s now made even murkier as an appeals court digs directly into the nature of HTML to say that—no—that embedded photo isn’t a copy of the original photo, but…

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Both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram lead Adam Mosseri have been adamant they were not simply copying Twitter wholesale. And yet, that’s exactly what they seem to be doing as the company’s latest move has been to limit the number of posts users can see on the Instagram-based app, just as Elon Musk’s Twitter did…