• Some Threads Users Can Now Share Their Posts to the Fediverse

    The post-Twitter world is fractured among a handful of potential alternate social networks—which is exciting, but also annoying. Things got slightly more integrated last week. That's because Threads, the Twitter alternative owned by Meta, made it possible for users of Mastodon and other services to follow Threads accounts that opt in to the Fediverse.

  • Facebook's Project Ghostbusters Exposes Covert Surveillance of Snapchat Users

    By delving into this encrypted data, Facebook hoped to gain valuable insights into user behavior, ultimately seeking to enhance its competitive position against Snapchat.

  • TikTok Bans User Who Told Immigrants To Steal And Squat In Homes

    In the ever-evolving landscape of social media, where influence can be wielded with a tap and a swipe, the power of a single viral video can sometimes leave lasting reverberations. Recently, a Venezuelan immigrant, Leonel Moreno, known as “Capichi” on TikTok, found himself at the center of a storm after a resurfaced video went viral, […] The post TikTok Bans User Who Told Immigrants To Steal And Squat In Homes first appeared on The Source.

  • Garbage AI posts like Shrimp Jesus are destroying Facebook

    My pastor never told me about the kinds of Jesus I see on Facebook these days: an adult made out of shrimp; a baby surrounded by three-armed fairies and candles (terrible parenting, Joseph); a crucifix worshipped by kneeling flight attendants around a pool.These images of Jesus are the kind of artificial intelligence-generated images that are overwhelming Facebook, making the social media site even more depressing.I'm one of the few millennials I know who regularly uses Facebook, mostly to make...

  • Benue Assembly rejects gov’s nominee over Facebook post

    The Benue State House of Assembly, on Thursday, rejected one of the nominees for the membership of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission, Vincent Gisaor, for allegedly insulting the Tiv tribe in a Facebook post. Gisaor was one of the eight nominees for the state electoral commission submitted for screening by Governor Hyacinth Alia a Read More

  • WhatsApp now lets users pin multiple messages to a chat

    It’s been a while since WhatsApp introduced the ability to pin a message to a chat, so that it is always visible in that conversation. With the latest version of the app, Meta has introduced a small change to this feature that now lets users pin multiple messages to the same chat. more

  • Threads opens beta to let users connect their accounts to the fediverse

    Threads has officially entered the fediverse. Meta announced on Thursday that its beta experience of sharing Threads accounts to the fediverse is now open to users ages 18 and up with public profiles. The integration is only available in three countries to start, including the U.S., Canada and Japan. The company previously announced in December […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Trump appears to drop plans to kill Obamacare in typo-riddled post

    Former President Donald Trump furiously defended his health care policy in a typo-ridden rant posted to his Truth Social platform Tuesday.Among other things, Trump appeared to disavow the idea that he and the Republican Party would repeal the Affordable Care Act, which was a massive point of controversy during Trump's term as president as efforts to get rid of it ended in failure.Instead, he posted, he would work to improve it — despite previously vowing that he would replace it in a second...

  • Singapore orders Israeli embassy to remove Facebook post about Palestine, Koran

    The embassy’s now-deleted posted said Israel is mentioned 43 times in the central religious text of Islam, while ‘Palestine is not mentioned even once’.

  • Richard Simmons reveals skin cancer diagnosis and removal in Facebook posts

    The former fitness guru Richard Simmons posted an announcement that he had

  • Afghan refugee found guilty of killing Pakistani immigrant in New Mexico

    In New Mexico, a jury found an Afghan asylum seeker guilty of murdering a Pakistani immigrant. This occurred during a series of shootings that targeted Muslim men and caused fear among the Islamic community in the state’s largest city during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed, aged 53, has been sentenced to life in prison […]

  • Doonside, Sydney: Bloke's chilling Facebook post before alleged neighbourhood horror

    Mother-of-four, Jodie Gundy, 42, and her partner Kurt, 41, became embroiled in a verbal argument with neighbour Corey Porter, 27, in Doonside on Monday morning.