Instagram’s Teen ‘Break’ Was Mostly a Reminder Nobody Turned On
Instagram did not make its early Take a Break tool mandatory after teens largely ignored it. In August 2026 testimony…
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Meta Must Pay $567 Million in New Mexico Youth-Safety Case
Meta must pay $567 million over five years into a New Mexico youth-harm abatement fund and adopt state-specific safety measures…
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Chatto Is Now Open Source With a Self-hostable 0.4 Release
Chatto is now open source, with creator Hendrik Mans announcing the public release on July 8, 2026 and shipping a…
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Discord Says a Moderation Bug Wrongly Banned More Than 8,000 Users
Discord says more than 8,000 users were wrongfully banned after a moderation bug sent some harmless image matches straight to…
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Foreign-run Pro-One Nation Facebook Groups Look More Like Ad Farms Than Propaganda Cells
Foreign-run pro-One Nation Facebook groups are best understood as an ad-arbitrage business: cheap partisan posts pull in a large, commercially…
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Bot Farms, Fake Accounts, and Deep-Pocketed Donors: Inside One Nation’s Online Machine
One Nation’s 2026 online surge is best explained by four distinct layers: coordinated real supporters on Facebook, foreign AI-generated fake-news…
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Up to 15% of Accounts Are Bots on X
Bots on X are best estimated at roughly 9% to 15% of accounts, not a single precise count. The main…
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ByteDance Eyes Inference Silicon; Cloudflare Automates First-Pass Reviews; SQLite Creeps Into Agent Runtime
ByteDance chips are the clearest signal today, even if the clearest fact is still that the company has not confirmed…
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TikTok served more anti-Democratic videos in US election
A Nature paper published on 6 May found that TikTok’s recommendation system served an uneven mix of 2024 US election…
