YouTube is looking to help creators avoid a wider range of penalties with their uploads, by expanding its pre-publish checking tool to cover more types of potential violations. YouTube’s pre-publish checks tool, which it first launched back in 2021, analyzes the content of your upload for a range of potential violations, including copyright concerns and…
Despite its efforts to be classified as a messaging app, instead of a social platform, in order to avoid the coming social media age restrictions in Australia, Snapchat has now accepted that it will be required to abide by the new laws, which will come into effect on December 10th. And like Meta, it’s now…
Another major legal challenge is mounting for Meta, with a group of U.S. parents and school leaders alleging that Meta ignored major risk red flags, in order to maximize usage and profit, despite warnings, including those from its own internal leaders. According to a new filing in the Northern District of California, which has been…
Instagram is rolling out some new updates for the Reels camera, which will make it easier to capture and edit your clips in-stream, for on-the-go posting. Also, you can now capture longer videos via the camera, with 20-minute recording now available in-stream. As explained by IG: “The Instagram Design Team has been hard at work…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Google is launching an updated version of its Nano Banana AI visual generation tool, with the new Nano Banana Pro offering improved capacity to generate images using Google’s most advanced AI models. And for marketers, it could…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Pew Research has released its latest report into social media usage among Americans, based on a survey of 5k people, which provides a general overview of social app usage trends, based on which apps people open regularly,…
WhatsApp’s adding a new way to indicate what you’re up to in the app, which is a lot like Instagram’s inbox Notes, but for your WhatsApp profile instead. As you can see in these examples, WhatsApp’s new “About” feature will enable you to include a brief note on your profile that will let your contacts…
TikTok has announced some new measures in its efforts to combat hate speech and violent extremism in its app, with the platform establishing a new partnership with Violence Prevention Network, which is an organization dedicated to stopping violent extremism, while it’s also joined the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), in order to implement…
Meta’s next-level metaverse push progressed a little more this week, with the addition of two new features that will help facilitate the creation of 3D environments, and will eventually enable you to speak entire VR experiences into existence. In addition to the launch of its updated Segment Anything (SAM) process, including SAM 3D, which is…
Does LinkedIn’s algorithm promote male profiles over female? That’s apparently what several users have found, by conducting their own makeshift experiments in the app, where women are switching their profiles to male profile pictures and names, then posting the exact same content as they had as female users, in order to test the results. And…
