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Threads posts can now be shared directly to your Instagram Story without leaving the app

The new Threads feature lets you share your posts — or anyone else’s — to your Instagram Story without leaving the Threads app.

Apps, Meta, Social, social media, Threads

Prop bet

Substack has updated its partnership with betting platform Polymarket, “introducing native tools that make it easier to share, discuss, and debate prediction market data directly on Substack.” Additionally, Polymarket will effectively pay “a cohort of creators,” including Matt Yglesias, to use its data though the newsletter platform’s pilot sponsorships program. This is just the latest […]

Analysis, Business, Policy, Politics, Report, social media, Tech

The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it

Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens, onto Facebook and Instagram – despite the risks. Boland’s testimony came a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the […]

Law, Meta, Policy, Report, social media, Tech

Teens had ‘an addicts’ narrative about their Instagram use’ — Mark Zuckerberg takes stand in trail which could reshape not just social media, but his AI and Ray-Ban XR dreams

Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta in social media addiction trial, which could have major ramifications for online platforms.
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Computing, Facebook, Internet, social media

Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens

Meta’s CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.

Apps, Court, Instagram, kids, lawsuit, Meta, Social, social media, Social media addiction, Teens

Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse

New users on the decentralized social network Mastodon could soon have an easier time getting started. Mastodon is running “onboarding experiments” to test ways to improve the new user experience, starting with default server recommendations. Now when new users join Mastodon from the mobile app, they may see a button to “join” a recommended server […]

News, social media, Tech

Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin Just Made A Great Point About Online Criticism

Shiffrin makes a great point about whether criticism during competitions is warranted or justified, especially given her status.

Innovation, social media, socialmedia, standard

It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the love-hate (but mostly hate) relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington. I hope everyone got to celebrate George Washington’s birthday in their preferred manner: skiing, staycationing, subscribing to The Verge if you haven’t already, etc. Prediction: this is going to be a mess Political […]

AI, Column, Policy, Politics, Regulator, social media, Tech

Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered a downtown Los Angeles courthouse in largely the same way as all the attorneys, reporters, and advocates who’d come to watch his landmark trial testimony, but with one notable difference: he was flanked by an entourage that appeared to be wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. To get to the courtroom, […]

Law, Meta, Policy, Report, social media, Tech

YouTube is now an exhibit at one of the world’s biggest museums — and I’m shocked that 2006 is now considered ‘vintage’

YouTube’s watch page from 2006 is being recreated for an exhibit at the V&A museum, and I’ve never felt so ancient.

Computing, Internet, social media