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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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TikTok is set to launch an e-commerce platform to sell Chinese-made goods to its millions of American users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

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TikTok is bringing text posts to its Camera page in a format that’s much like Instagram’s stories. Users can choose from a photo option, video, or text. The company announced the updated feature in a news release on Monday.

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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…

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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has issued an additional subpoena directing Meta to hand over documents surrounding content moderation on its newest app, Threads.

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For a brand-new app, Threads launched in a highly functional form. Many of the things we’re complaining about took a long time to come to Twitter, and perhaps it’s unfair to judge something just a few weeks old with a mature (if deteriorating) app that first launched in 2006.

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On Thursday, Twitter said it had expanded its creator monetization fund to share more ad revenue with “creators.” Who is a Twitter creator these days? Well, some of the most politically divisive figures are making the most change in Musk’s new world order.

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