Karissa Bell

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The bill that could ban TikTok is barreling ahead

The bill that could lead to a ban of TikTok in the United States appears to be much closer to becoming law. The legislat...
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Airchat is the latest app trying to make 'social audio' cool again

There’s a new invite-only app going semi-viral among VCs, tech execs and other Silicon Valley personalities. It’s called...
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TikTok is trying to clean up its ‘For You’ recommendations

TikTok is ramping up penalties for creators who post potentially “problematic” content and tightening its rules around w...
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TikTok Notes is basically Instagram for your TikTok account

TikTok is experimenting with an all-new app that’s just for sharing photos with text updates. It’s called TikTok Notes, ...
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Meta’s Oversight Board will rule on AI-generated sexual images

Meta’s Oversight Board is once again taking on the social network’s rules for AI-generated content. The board has accept...
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Threads is testing real-time search results

Meta’s Threads app is often described as the company’s competitor to X. But Threads users, especially those once active ...
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Meta is testing messaging capabilities for Threads, but don’t call them DMs

As Threads has grown to more than 130 million users, one of the major remaining “missing” features users often complain ...
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Google, a $1.97 trillion company, is protesting California's plan to pay journalists

Google, the search giant that brought in more than $73 billion in profit last year, is protesting a California bill that...
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X won’t let users hide their blue checks anymore

X will no longer allow users to hide their blue checks, regardless of whether they paid for premium or not. On Thursday,...
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Instagram's status update feature is coming to user profiles

Instagram’s status update feature, Notes, will soon be more prominent in the app. Up until now, Notes have only been vis...
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Meta’s AI image generator struggles to create images of couples of different races

Meta AI is consistently unable to generate accurate images for seemingly simple prompts like “Asian man and Caucasian fr...
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X names its third head of safety in less than two years

X has named a new head of safety nearly a year after the last executive in the position resigned. The company said Tuesd...
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LinkedIn is testing a TikTok-like feed for vertical video

LinkedIn is testing a new feed of TikTok-like vertical videos. The feature hasn’t been publicly announced but it’s been ...
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X is working on NSFW Communities for adult content

X is working on features that will allow admins of “Communities,” the platform’s tool for subreddit-like groups, to desi...
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Snapchat’s latest paid perk is an AI Bitmoji of your pet

Snapchat has a new AI-powered perk for subscribers: Bitmoji versions of your pet. The feature, which is unfortunately no...
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More YouTube creators are now making money from Shorts, the company's TikTok competitor

YouTube’s TikTok competitor, Shorts, is becoming a more significant part of the company’s monetization program. The comp...
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Anti-trans hate is ‘widespread’ on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, report warns

Meta is failing to enforce its own rules against anti-trans hate speech on its platform, a new report from GLAAD warns. ...
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The FTC might sue TikTok over its handling of users’ privacy and security

TikTok, already fighting a proposed law that could lead to a ban of the app in the United States, may soon also find its...
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The Oversight Board weighs in on Meta’s most-moderated word

The Oversight Board is urging Meta to change the way it moderates the word “shaheed,” an Arabic term that has led to mor...
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Judge dismisses X's lawsuit against anti-hate group

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit from X against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that researche...
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TikTok turns to teenage 'youth council' as part of its latest safety push

Last summer, TikTok said it planned to form a “youth council” of teens to advise the company as part of a broader push t...
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Senators ask intelligence officials to declassify details about TikTok and ByteDance

As the Senate considers the bill that would force a sale or ban of TikTok, lawmakers have heard directly from intelligen...
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Researchers ask Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until after 2024 elections

The Mozilla Foundation and dozens of other research and advocacy groups are pushing back on Meta’s decisions to shut dow...
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The case against the TikTok ban bill

A year ago, I visited TikTok’s US headquarters to preview its new “transparency center,” a central piece of its multibil...
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House passes bill that would bar data brokers from selling Americans' personal information to 'adversary' countries

The House of Representatives approved a measure targeting data brokers’ ability to sell Americans’ personal data to “adv...
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Here's a video of the first human Neuralink patient controlling a computer with his thoughts

Earlier this year, Elon Musk announced that the first human patient had received a Neuralink brain implant as part of th...
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YouTube created the creator economy

Nineteen years after Jawed Karim uploaded the very first YouTube video, the awkward, 19-second clip in front of San Dieg...
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Meta previews ‘fediverse sharing’ for Threads

Meta is continuing its slow march toward compatibility with the fediverse. The company has been experimenting with makin...
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Meta is finally rolling out trending topics on Threads

Meta is finally providing a bit of visibility into what kinds of conversations are happening on its Twitter competitor, ...
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The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into Reddit’s AI licensing deals, the company disclosed in paperwork filed with ...
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