Naomi Osaka’s Latest Australian Open Match Engulfed In Controversy: ‘I Don’t Like Disrespecting People’

Naomi Osaka’s Latest Australian Open Match Engulfed In Controversy: ‘I Don’t Like Disrespecting People’

X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow

X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky’s Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.

Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide

Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies

In a post to GitHub on Tuesday, the social media giant purported to share its secret sauce.

ICE becomes one of the most-blocked accounts on Bluesky after its verification

ICE has been verified on Bluesky, and quickly becomes one of the top most-blocked accounts.

Meta’s Oversight Board takes up permanent bans in landmark case

For the first time, Meta’s Oversight Board is looking for specific policy recommendations around disabled accounts.

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies
Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies

“Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!” That’s what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the […]

X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday
X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday

On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco’s ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were having problems. Attempts to load the site with either the Twitter.com or […]

600,000 Trump Mobile phones sold? There’s no proof.
600,000 Trump Mobile phones sold? There’s no proof.

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. As usual, we’re still waiting for a response. In the meantime, some impressive alleged sales figures have gone viral – but they might be too good to be true. This […]