2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (431+ words) Snapchat Plans turns group chats into invite-only gatherings of up to 200 people, and arrives with Brussels already investigating how the app protects the young users it was built around Snap has launched Snapchat Plans, an invite-only tool for organising real-world…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (354+ words) Adam Mosseri says Instagram engagement can fall by half on a chronological feed and that satisfaction drops sharply, as Australia consults on forcing platforms to offer the option....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (452+ words) The DSA designation covers the part of ChatGPT that retrieves, not the part that talks. The platform label carried safe harbour....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (486+ words) Apps posing as pornography could capture one-time passwords and banking PINs. Meta removed the ads Reuters flagged and did not answer its questions....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (897+ words) Pennsylvania has sued Snap over Snapchat, and the complaint rests on a 13-year-old account an investigator opened on a new iPhone. It names Snapstreaks, infinite scroll and a paid feature that ranks a teenager's eight closest friends as planets. Pennsylvania…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (562+ words) Brazil's data regulator fined ByteDance 153.7 million reais over children's data, according to the AP, covering guest browsing as well as accounts....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (933+ words) Meta has rolled out Pocket nationwide, an app that turns prompts into small interactive posts called gizmos. It came from the team behind Gizmo, which Meta hired in March and whose original app was wound down on the day Pocket…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (291+ words) A 15-year-old New Jersey plaintiff dropped her social media addiction claims against Meta, Google, and Snap weeks before an October bellwether trial....

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (686+ words) Meta's Australia social media ban update ends with a policy ask: verify age once at the operating system or app store, not on every platform....