Social Media: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Americans were by far the most cynical about social media's impact on democracy in 2022. Now the rest of the world is catching up.

The @Microsoft account reposted a tweet from a Clippy crypto account to its 13 million followers.

The tool can also provide ideas, explain what your audience prefers, and suggest trending audio. Meta, however, insists that the app only 'does the digging,' not the content creation.

The new subscription also gives you increased allowances of Meta AI tools to generate more photos and videos.

Attorney General Todd Blanche blamed 'sophisticated cybercriminals' for the reset emails.

John Ternus's LinkedIn is remarkably light on details. Instead of updating it with his big CEO promotion this week, he chose to set up an X account instead.

Meta is replacing the 'AI creator' label with a 'AI-generated profile' to make it more clear that you're not dealing with a real person.

For kids under 18, Meta will limit access to Facebook and Instagram to 2 hours per day, while Night Mode will block apps between midnight and 6 a.m., among other restrictions.

Instagram's new First Draft tool stitches parts of your shots into a single video for quicker edits. At launch, it's only available on the iOS app.

The fine, apparently the largest ever issued under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, ends TikTok’s second run through the COPPA wringer. But TikTok won't suffer much financially.

The new experiment generates an AI voiceover of some of the most popular responses.

Users will now be able to see whether any labels have been added to their account.

Reddit plans to start testing 'video Reddit' or 'spoken Reddit' in the latter part of 2026.

The app wants to eliminate 'low-quality, repetitive, AI-generated content' from its discovery tools.

Flagging a post as AI slop suppresses it and similar posts from your feed—and helps Microsoft improve its models.

In 2027, apps like TikTok and Instagram can't serve up algorithmic feeds and nighttime alerts to minors, meaning you might have to prove you're an adult before you start a doomscroll.

Meta is looking to combat AI-generated fakery on the social network by confirming you're human via video selfies. It's also launching a standalone 'Seller' app for Facebook Marketplace.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot is scraping your X posts by default. Fortunately, there are some easy steps you can take to protect your privacy.

'All chats flagged by our AI will be manually reviewed before an alert is sent' to a parent, Meta says. It's currently live on Instagram for those with Teen Accounts.

If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.