October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and in-line with the awareness push, Instagram’s adding some new tools to help reduce cyberbullying within its app, and protect, in particular, its younger, more susceptible, audience cohort. First off, Instagram is launching a new test of a feature that will automatically hide comments which are similar to those that…
As if a global pandemic wasn’t hard enough in itself, COVID-19 has opened up the floodgates to mental health challenges around the world. With global mental health issues on the rise, medical experts are teaming up with social media platforms to raise awareness and provide helpful resources to those in need. Just in time for World…
Honestly, Twitter’s efforts on content discovery are difficult to understand at times. Back in 2015, then Twitter CFO Anthony Noto told investors in an earnings call that the platform had been struggling to grow because it lacked the mass-market appeal that other platforms enjoyed. “Simply said, the product remains too difficult to use.” That became a…
Instagram is celebrating its tenth birthday, and to mark the occasion, it’s added a couple of new, celebratory features and updates, ranging from visual additions to the expansion of its eCommerce tools. The main celebratory element is its Stories Map, which provides a private look at where you’ve posted Instagram Stories from (when you’ve used a…
So this might be of interest to the few people still using Instagram’s ‘Threads’ app. As shared by both Matt Navarra and Jane Manchun Wong, Instagram has announced a new update for Threads which adds full messaging functionality into the app, which, as TechCrunch notes, essentially makes it like Instagram’s discontinued ‘Direct’ app, but with auto-status updates. At launch, Threads…
This could be interesting – according to a new finding by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter could be set to remove the current retweet menu options, and open directly to a ‘Quote Tweet’ composer window instead. As you can see in the GIF above, the new sequence would seemingly remove this middle step (below),…
YouTube is testing two new features designed to address potentially harmful comments, with new reminder prompts when users include certain terms in their responses and the automatic removal of ‘Held for Review’ comments after 60 days. First off, similar to Instagram’s comment warning prompts, which are triggered when its system detects terms in comments that…
While the ship seems to have sailed on Facebook being the top social platform among younger audiences, Facebook, of course, still has Instagram to maintain a connection with the youth. Or ‘had’ – according to a new survey conducted by research firm Piper Sandler, Instagram, too, now seems to be losing ground, with Snapchat and TikTok…
After a 16-month investigation, the House Antitrust Subcommittee has found that Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon do hold ‘monopoly power’ over their respective markets, and has proposed significant changes to address how they operate. That could lead to major shifts for each of the tech giants, and potentially, a break-up of their core operations. For Facebook, that…
In a move that many consider long overdue, on Tuesday, Facebook announced a full ban on QAnon, classifying the conspiracy theory group as a ‘militarized social movement’, which is capable of causing serious, real-world harm if left unaddressed. As per Facebook: “Starting today, we will remove Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram account for representing QAnon. […] We’re…